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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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.
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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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