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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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
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