BitComet Reaches Milestone with v1.00
Written by Ernesto on April 08, 2008Almost five years after the initial release went public, BitComet v1.00 has arrived. BitComet has come a long way, and despite its (unfounded) image as the BitTorrent bully, it remains popular among BitTorrent users.
The first version of BitComet was released on August 6 2003. Now, nearly five years later, v1.00 of the client has finally gone public.
BitComet used to be the most used BitTorrent client, but its popularity has decreased over the years, and it is now in fourth place after uTorrent, BitTorrent mainline and Azureus. The decline in popularity is, among other things, due to the negative press BitComet has received over the years.
It all started in 2005 when BitComet was banned from several private BitTorrent trackers for ignoring the “private flag”. Even though this issue was resolved relatively quickly, the image of BitComet was permanently damaged.
In the years to come, more and more horror stories popped up, from spreading junk data, to disobeying BitTorrent rules. Last year, BitTornado developer Shad0w even went as far as banning all BitComet users, because the client allegedly exploited super-seeds.
Last year however, Robb Topolski, a networking and protocol expert with more than 25 years of experience researched most of the claims against BitComet. He concluded that the client was not best suited for initial seeding tasks but at the same time refuted all other claims.
“BitComet is a worthy download client, providing some advantageous features not found in any other current BitTorrent client. Some of these features are confusing and are poorly implemented, but they are not detrimental to a BitTorrent swarm, nor do they take unfair advantage,” Topolski wrote.
“None of the typical accusations against BitComet, those that are provided as reasons for trackers or users to “Ban BitComet,” have held true. It is my professional opinion that the bans of BitComet are based on misunderstandings and falsehoods, and not on good data,” he added.
People should of course decide for themselves what they think of BitComet, but one thing is hard to deny. The client has turned into one of the most feature rich clients, currently available in 43 languages, which still has a great appeal to beginning and intermediate BitTorrent users.
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The research was a good idea, but once people have a bias it’s hard to make them let go. Just as newspapers “never let facts get in the way of a good story”, people never let facts get in the way of their own preconceived notions.
As I almost exclusively use public trackers anyway, I might get BC1.00 - I like features.
Gonna stick with uTorrent, thangyewvairymush…
Doesn’t this client pad the torrent files it creates too? That’s enough reason to not use it.
I used to use bitcomet alot, its a good client but now I use utorrent because its lightweight and thats the programs I like.
It does its job without slowing me down.. just like your mom.
I don’t know, your mom speeds me up Rycon. Anyway, I think Bitcomet is nice for tv shows since it provides an easy to use access to previews. And it has an interesting comment section. The interface is ‘cluttery’, but seems to use less resources then Azureus. I use Bittcomet and utorrent. Utorrent for large dl’s and bitcomet for tv and small movies. Utorrent is better at initial seeding and has a more desciptive and uncluttered enviroment. In the end I would recommend bittcomet to a new bittorent user. That’s probably the reason for it loosing popularity. People just grew out of it. They just like the sleekness of utorrent.
Bitcomet ban will be forever in my Azureus, they fuck up with my superseeding. + usualy bitcomets don’t upload to others and don’t seed
Bittorrent just cheats and breaks the swarm; there is no two ways about it. More damage has been done by bittorrent by its intial/superseeds , its recursive lack of uploading and padding than all the anti-privacy companies put together.
^ lol i mean bitcomet. Where is the ability to edit comments? And why am I always posting comments too quickly, even on my previous one that was my first???
I remember BitComet… And how long it took for a new version to come out. I always wonder about that cause you could download like twenty different betas, which all was higher than the “current” version.
And the fact that their website was slow.
i’ve been using bitcomet v0.60 since it came out and im still using it i think its one of the best clients there and don’t care what any1 says - bitcomet rules.
i stopped using bitcomet since they started adding annoying ads, and bitcomet just crashes all the time.
BitComet is still shitty…
µTorrent > all!
thanks to bitcomet we having junk data in torrent. padding files - fuck u bitcomet
I used to use BitComet before uTorrent some time ago and always thought it was a good client.
These days though I’m starting to reach the point I don’t trust uTorrent / BitTorrent(tm)(c)(ltd)(wtf) to have only honest interests in mind. I can see what I perceive to be interests in money and status shaping motivations, and am not keen on some of the attitudes I’ve seen expressed by some in, for instance, the uTorrent forums. This new Vuze thing by Azureus has me wondering too though I don’t know enough about it. All I can say about Azureus is that in a recent attempt to find a decent alternative to uTorrent, Azureus ‘Vuze’ isn’t it, as it’s just bloated, having a ton of crap I don’t need or want, and looks to consume mad system resources for something that should just transfer data with a few nifty features.
So what’s left? Maybe I should give BitComet a try again? Shame it’s not open-source… and it’s a shame there doesn’t seem to be any decent open-source clients out there. Why is that?
Could BitComet help make a bad situation better, or is it just another closed-doors application looking to pucker-up and cash in when the time is right?
/soapbox
;p
bit comet is still junk comet for me
Yea that’s it #10, bitcomet rules, bush and putin are good people, global warming doest not exist, go you!
Retard.
[quote comment="336635"]Doesn’t this client pad the torrent files it creates too? That’s enough reason to not use it.[/quote]
Doesn’t this global warming intrude into my private affairs too much? That’s enough reason to not believe it.
[quote comment="336968"]Yea that’s it #10, bitcomet rules, bush and putin are good people, global warming doest not exist, go you!
Retard.[/quote]
im sorry im neither from usa or russia nor do i think they’re good i just like the client do u have a problem with that? - i don’t care
[quote comment="336968"]Yea that’s it #10, bitcomet rules, bush and putin are good people, global warming doest not exist, go you!
Retard.[/quote]
im sorry im neither from usa or russia nor do i think they’re good i just like the client do u have a problem with that? - i don’t care
oh and yea global warming is a bunch of crap try doing some research, reading and you’ll know its not all true what they’re saying
I think the rumors about Bitcomet are exaggerated. I don’t see why it should be banned. But while I don’t mind others using it, I will never switch to Bitcomet. I tried it out once, and it felt like a bit of a resource hog. Not to mention, the interface wasn’t as clean or straightforward as some other clients I have used. I recommend most people use utorrent unless they have some special need for another client.
The padding files could be a good idea, they just should have told people about the idea before they made them. It would have been easy enough for other clients to ignore them properly then.
BitComet is BANNED on many private trackers since you can cheat using this crap piece of software.
uTorrent all the way!!!
µTorrent RULZZZZZ!
BitComet sucks…its not allowed on my private website. Also it fcuks up basic torrenting principle by screwing around with the torrent files.
DIE BitComet DIE !!!
>>22
Please explain instead of making purely baseless comments.
[quote comment="337407"]>>22
Please explain instead of making purely baseless comments.[/quote]
amen. i’m not learning much from this discussion, other than al gore’s movie needs to be downloaded by the rest of the world.
ShitComet is also insta banned on all my clients and trackers. Use a real client.
Padding files, Padding files, Padding files, This is what they offer, dont you see people its in the padding files…I know what lies inside those padding files, and it waits for people like me, and like you….Dont be a victim of the Padding files…RUN!!! RUN!!!!!! stay away from the Padding files…………………RUN!!
I’ve been a BitComet user since V. 0.56, been in the investigation of the BitComet “accusations” and so on.
I’m also a µTorrent user and I’ve used Azureus, but neither of those clients can beat BitComet in groundbreaking new features.
All of the people whining and complaining about BitComet, haven’t even tried the damn client!
REMEMBER BitComet is NOT the same client as from 0.71! The whole sourcecode was re-written starting from that version, and that’s why it has had some buggy releases. However, BitComet is very stable - if BitComet crashed, when you used it, download the latest version and you’ll be amazed.
There has been many bugfixes recently - every crash-problem has been fixed.
It is as it is with every new software - it has to be tested, fixed, tested, fixed and so on before a stable version can get released. BitComet 1.00 (A long with the newest BETA-release) is the best BitComet releases ever.
I don’t say this because I like BitComet, but I’m saying this because it’s true.
Try it for yourself.
You’re talking about Padding-files - YES! BitComet had a bug that made “File Align To Piece Boundary” on by default, but that is also fixed.
In addition, BitComet is not just a BitTorrent client - it has eMule build-in. That means you can search for files on the ED2K and KAD network and adding peers to your BitTorrent downloads improving your speed. (Of course, only on open trackers, due to private flags on the closed ones.)
Not only that, BitComet will AUTOMATICALLY search for HTTP/FTP peers on it’s enormous database, adding those servers to your BitTorrent download. Basically that means you can expect HUGE downloadspeeds on some torrents with popular files, because it’s supported by fast servers.
BitComet is a very powerful HTTP/FTP client, speeding up your download, adding mirrors automatically from the same database, where it’ll search for WebSeeds on your BitTorrent downloads. The mirror-search will be expanded all the time, because, if you enable it, every time you add a download to BitComet using the HTTP/FTP client, that link will be submitted to the database. Thousand of URLS are added every day.
The feature-list is never-ending.
BitComet (1.00 and above) IS one of the most innovative and powerful BitTorrent client available. I can only recommend you get out of the big bigotry-box and try it out.
By the way, the BitComet developers are looking on adding the SuperSeeding feature to the client, making it perfect for initial seeding.
Maybe BitComet uses a bit more RAM than competing clients - that is because it has a build-in cache, that will expand the lifetime of your Harddrives by reducing the writes, which will result in less movement.
You can disable this. If you do that, BitComet will not use more RAM than Internet Explorer or Firefox does.
@26: Still banned on a few crappy trackers (usually because of narrow-minded and ignorant admins), but unbanned on most of the major private trackers.
Well, give BitComet a chance. If you don’t like it for BitTorrent downloading, you can always use it as a HTTP/FTP downloadclient. It doesn’t use much space. ;)
- Best regards
XS.
Who’s Al Gore and why should I care about his padding files?
[quote comment="337224"]The padding files could be a good idea, they just should have told people about the idea before they made them. It would have been easy enough for other clients to ignore them properly then.[/quote]
I agree, padding files are very small, and don’t waste bandwidth, and make many of the cross protocol downloading functions of bitcomet work better.
However your claims are not true, no other client has asked bitcomet for information on development, just as shadow didn’t even speak to them before making his unfounded claims. BitComet’s developers first heard about this when I brought it to their attention.
BitComet has become alot more then just a bittorrent client, and some of its new features make it by far the most advanced download client available, even when compared to commercial products.
@27 yes very true because they pad with MPAA secret code
@28 Hey there XS, I’m wondering if you have any plans to publish your post as a paperback book anytime soon, or hardback even?
Bitcomet seeds perfectly fine and is a far superior client. I tried to switch to utorrent and it is a piece of shit in comparison.
Also, the mpaa owns a part of utorrent, dumbasses.
lol what does global warming have to do with this ? Evan Baxter will build us a boat anyways .
seriously there is crap all difference between the top 5 bit torrent clients nowadays none of you bit comet bashes have even used it since probably before .71 so shut up and go play in your beloved little private areas
[quote comment="336951"]I used to use BitComet before uTorrent some time ago and always thought it was a good client.
These days though I’m starting to reach the point I don’t trust uTorrent / BitTorrent(tm)(c)(ltd)(wtf) to have only honest interests in mind. I can see what I perceive to be interests in money and status shaping motivations, and am not keen on some of the attitudes I’ve seen expressed by some in, for instance, the uTorrent forums. This new Vuze thing by Azureus has me wondering too though I don’t know enough about it. All I can say about Azureus is that in a recent attempt to find a decent alternative to uTorrent, Azureus ‘Vuze’ isn’t it, as it’s just bloated, having a ton of crap I don’t need or want, and looks to consume mad system resources for something that should just transfer data with a few nifty features.
So what’s left? Maybe I should give BitComet a try again? Shame it’s not open-source… and it’s a shame there doesn’t seem to be any decent open-source clients out there. Why is that?
Could BitComet help make a bad situation better, or is it just another closed-doors application looking to pucker-up and cash in when the time is right?
/soapbox
;p[/quote]
Try LH-ABC then. It has no bloat and has about the same features as all the others.
I have not found a client that uploads as well as Bitcomet. Initial or otherwise I get my max upload speed most of the time. I have tried the other common clients. And the only one that comes close is Bittorrent.It maxes out 3 kbs shy of my max.On private sites.
I wish I could try to see If my old Bc would work to the max up as it did on the public/simi public trackers
(older versions both)
i use azureus v 2.5, the release before vuze. vuze is crap. although i prefer bit tornado, and if The Shadow were ever to add a multi torrent interface like azureus or utorrent i would switch to that in a heart beat. as for bit comet. ive never tried it nor do i plan to, nor do i harbor nay ill feeling towards it. if you like it go for it if not go somewhere else. this is how racism is born. unfounded biasness. although in this case its software racism
i used to use utorrent last time…
nice and light-weight…:)
but dunno y, then download is dam slow!
when i switch to bitcomet, the download was WAY faster!
and for those who keep saying bitcomet user dont seed, i seed my torrent at least 1.5! before removing it
dumped it v0.65 because pt said
no to the Bitcomets.but it did lead
me to a M!l\l!l\l[]\/a.
but they put up t[]rrents from pt
like p90rhub,duh passkeys
so bye bye to the bitcometz . . . . . .
@32:
In fact I do. And I’m offering a discount just for you, my love.
Yay? µTorrent is way better anyway and doesn’t cheat.
Bitcomet has been accused of questionable practices in the past;
specifically, many/most clients are bias against people who download more than they upload.
But there exist those of us who are limited by our local admins, ISPs, etc. and FORCED into that scenario; its not a choice; and yet we are penalized for it by crushingly slow DL speeds. That is unfair.
Abusing users who are forced, by powers outside their control, to operate under sub-optimal sharing conditions, is just as unfair as abusing users who are free and use their freedom to maintain optimal sharing conditions.
I love Azureus, its got tons of features that don’t show up in other clients and it causes me no grief, BUT, its “fair-share” preferencing etc. meant I was capped at about 30 kB/s down and 8 kB/s up [I think my up was capped, and azureus tied my down to it].
With BitComet, the ratio became 200-300 kB/s down, and 30-60 kB/s up. Accursed ISPs. Accursed Campus Throttling!!!
In other opinions:)
Al Gore –> South Park episode (watch it!)
Global Warming –> true
Anthropogenic Global Warming –> false
Iraq –> invasion not war
Ron Paul –> GO !!! :)
I wouldn’t recommend using bitcomet as tons of people are actively blocking it. Can’t connect to anybody? It’s probably cause nobody wants to connect to a bitcomet client. Not just on the tracker level, on the client side as well.
See stuffer plugin for Azureus:
http://azcvsupdater.sourceforge.net/
Don’t be a stubborn prick use a good client like Azureus.
It’s already been proven that BitComet doesn’t cheat. The padding issue in one version of the client was fixed, that means 1.0 is fine.
People who block all versions of a client will suffer on their end and hurt the swarm far more than a few hit & runners. How many fools use the Safe Peer plug-in that blocks µTorrent?
Azureus users like to cut themselves off. After Vuze was found to actually report the user’s activity I say let them cut us off.
I use both BitComet & µTorrent.
[quote comment="337224"]The padding files could be a good idea, they just should have told people about the idea before they made them. It would have been easy enough for other clients to ignore them properly then.[/quote]
The entire community knew about it, and endlessly bitched about it, and is STILL bitching about it. BitComet didn’t and doesn’t need to explain a thing about it. You should know, and if you don’t know then you don’t know much about bittorrent and should learn more before speaking.
The problem is that bittorrent piece boundaries have nothing to do with the file boundaries of the contents. Piece #27 contains the end of file #3 and the beginning of file #4, so if you just want file #4, this causes problems. The community has been griping about that for years.
This was an attempt to solve the problem by including a padding file that filled out the rest of piece #27, so that file #4 starts with piece #28 instead of in the middle of #27.
But the poor guys are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. SOMEbody will complain about it no matter what they do.
It should be very clear to everyone that 1.0 was NOT a milestone release - it was simply another beta release among so many others that they’d used up all the numbers between 0.70 (still the most stable) and 0.99, so the next one had to be 1.0
In no other way was this a 1.0 release as that is generally understood.
I started using bittorrent with the bitcomet client and i used for a long time, until utorrent came and i have never looked back. I see alot of the complains about bitcomet is that it is possible to cheat. I do not know if the was a default feature from the develobers or if it was possible through a modified version of bitcomet. But i do now that for a least one year it has been possible to use a cheat version of utorrent with µtorrent 1.7.7__mult10_seeder.exe
- upload reported to tracker with multiplicator 10
- download not reported to tracker
and others tweaks. It can be found easy by just searching for “seba14″ on google.
BitComet was ok but since it was banned from all my pvt trackers I had to scrap it.
I have friends using bitcomet saying that they can get good speed from it despite ISP blocking of BT
I only support Free (open source) Software, as you can always know exactly what its doing and even change it as you see fit.
With bitcomet/utorrent its whatever they want to throw you, be it back doors, bombs, cripleware, unwanted tracking, etc.
Want to make bitcomet succeed? Release it. Otherwise, goodbye.
I really liked bitcomet before it turned to crap. Then I switched to azureus then to utorrent and then back to azureus.
If azureus made a kickass lite version it would be awesome. Like one without all the guiy bs. One that could still work with the kickass plugins but not take 2 mins to load with a shitty media player. Azureus team take a fucking hint please.
rTorrent and kTorrent are also good options for and nix machines.
For people using private trackers, BitComet was uploading to people who were not on the private tracker. Thius is s a problem since only those who are on the private tracker are supposed to be sharing the file with each other. Private tracker owners banned BitComet after this incident. I know that Azureus is a resource hog compared to uTorrent, but I am a big Azureus fan. Go Azureus!
i started downloading with bitcomet0.70 and not had 1 problem now that was 2yr ago i personally think everyone to there own opinion and im still using it to this day
[quote comment="339635"]For people using private trackers, BitComet was uploading to people who were not on the private tracker. Thius is s a problem since only those who are on the private tracker are supposed to be sharing the file with each other.[/quote]
That was fixed a long, long time ago. BitComet is perfectly safe for private trackers.
And just to let you know, Vuze does track your downloads and phone home about them.
I run a private tracker. Decided to investigate if BitComet is eligible to become one of the allowed clients. Came to the conclusion:
1. It shows a torrent as completed (switches you to a seeder) even if you only have 1% of the total torrent. So if you choose to download just one 1kb file out of a 10gb pack, you will still be seen as a seeder, which is incorrect. Until this is changed, it will never be allowed on any private trackers (and should not be allowed on public ones either imho).
2. It does not send a correct user-agent. It shows itself as “Mozilla .xxx). Another reason for private trackers not to allow it. Most block user-agents with “mozilla” in them, to stop cheating.
So, even though it does not have the bugs, its still a bad client, especially for private trackers. It shall remain banned until these things are fixed.
I replied to your post on the support-forums, x0r.
.
Regarding the HTTP-support seeding and long-time seeding, check this out. A picture says more than thousand words, right?
(Persistent seeds = HTTP-seeds and Long-time seeders.)
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/8383/persistentseedsba3.jpg
This system works - also considering that torrent, I was downloading was pretty low on peers.
-XS.
BitGrommet blows. Padding files? “If you are seeing this please upgrade to ver. blahblahblah” Fucking lame as hell! The devs are obviously hacks and people who use that client are not evolved enough to understand the difference between that shit program and a good client.
x0r - post your data in the BitComet forums.
I started off with Bitcomet and loved it. When the private trackers started banning it I switched to µTorrent and yes I came to love it too. I’ve now switched back to Bitcomet because for about the last 4 months or so I cannot get a good download speed with µTorrent, 10 - 15 Ks max and no upload at all. I’ve spent endless hours trying to fix it. Even reformatted my drive. Finally switched to Bitcomet again and speeds immediately shot up to the normal 125 Ks again. So for me I guess Bitcomet rules.
59 posts and not one mention of BitTyrant
I have started off with BitComet 0.66. I downloaded a torrent quite fast and was quite happy with it. The downloading was around 50 to 60 kbs. encounted a problem to download a new show which I thought was the problem of BitComet but actually it’s due to the tracker. But due to this, I have switched over to UTorrent to try and the downloading could start.
One thing I find quite amazing is that when I use both client to download a same torrent from the same tracker, I always find that BitComet has a higher download status. Was using that BTCMT 0.66 till few days ago I have upgraded to their new 1.03. With this new program, it’s the same, it could download much faster compared with UTorrent, till guess what?
For the fun of it, I just put on the summary section and look at the actual figure displayed. UTorrent could only download about 10 to 15 kbs but with BRTCMT I could download from 55 - 70 kbs. What I saw was a bit scary. Even though the download status keep on changing every second, the current downloaded data on the torrent doesn’t increased. In few minutes, only few mb loaded. This means that the status of 55 to 70 kbs is not true? So, what the hell is BTCMT downloading? Even if the Downloaded data increase, you could see that it increases by 10 to 15 kbs only. Then why showing 50 - 60 kbs? At times, with this high status going on and on but teh downloaded data don’t even move for few minutes, lol!
example:
if downloading at 50 kbs, I should get 3 mb in 1 min which will come to 180 mb in an hour and within 10 hrs, I should get 1.8 gb. Plus minus a bit, perhaps, lower it to 1.4 to 1.5 gb only, ok, acceptable.But guess what, after leaving it there for about 15 hrs with 50 to 65 kbs in the status, it only downloaded 800 mb. The uploading status was at 10 kbs and it logged it has uploaded for 500 mb. Crab!!! Always shown that the downloading is about 5 times more then uploading but the result is not.
Anyone has experience the report been false compared to the actual data downloaded? Or what other things have they downloaded? Thought I read somewhere that in the new version, this false report don’t happened anymore but it seems that it’s still there.
Good day Hawk.
This is a known problem. BitComet is in deed downloading good data, the problem is that these data fail the hash-check and will be excluded.
The problem is due to the feature called: “Long-time seeding”. It’s BitComet’s internal network, improving the downloadspeeds dramatically, however, this feature is very new and needs further development. It’s still in BETA stadium.
Simply disable the “Long-time seeding” network when experiencing this problem. It only happens rarely - you can be unlucky though.
There are no problems on Private Trackers, due to the Long-time seeding network only is active when the torrent doesn’t have private flags enabled.
The bug is reported to the developers.
Best regards,
Unofficial BitComet Ambassador.
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