Comments on: BitComet Reaches Milestone with v1.00

By: Unofficial BitComet Ambassador

Unofficial BitComet Ambassador — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:36:07 +0000

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.

By: Hawk

Hawk — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:33:37 +0000

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.

By: Clintonsducksix

Clintonsducksix — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:50:02 +0000

59 posts and not one mention of BitTyrant

By: Sharom

Sharom — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:56:00 +0000

I started off with Bitcomet and loved it. When the private trackers started banning it I switched to ÂµTorrent 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 ÂµTorrent, 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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:05:20 +0000

x0r – post your data in the BitComet forums.

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By: Mr Roboto

Mr Roboto — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:45:41 +0000

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.

By: XS

XS — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:02:05 +0000

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.

By: x0r

x0r — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:47:57 +0000

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.

By: Dark_Shroud

Dark_Shroud — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:58:48 +0000

[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.

By: scott

scott — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:24:44 +0000

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

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:18:35 +0000

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!

By: hooded

hooded — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:34:13 +0000

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.

By: nobody

nobody — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:51:30 +0000

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.

By: priss

priss — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:02:29 +0000

I have friends using bitcomet saying that they can get good speed from it despite ISP blocking of BT

By: Zoness

Zoness — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:54:48 +0000

BitComet was ok but since it was banned from all my pvt trackers I had to scrap it.

By: utorrent Fan

utorrent Fan — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:03:28 +0000

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 Âµtorrent 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.

By: kluelos

kluelos — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:34:35 +0000

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.

By: kluelos

kluelos — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:32:32 +0000

[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.

By: Dark Shroud

Dark Shroud — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:54:00 +0000

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 ÂµTorrent?

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 & ÂµTorrent.

By: Bitvomit

Bitvomit — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:40:27 +0000

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.

By: Fluted Champagne

Fluted Champagne — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:42:21 +0000

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 !!! :)

By: BramTourette

BramTourette — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:43:03 +0000

Yay? ÂµTorrent is way better anyway and doesn’t cheat.

By: XS

XS — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:05:24 +0000

@32:

In fact I do. And I’m offering a discount just for you, my love.

By: I\I3TFI_[][]I>

I\I3TFI_[][]I> — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:00:49 +0000

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 . . . . . .

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:05:31 +0000

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

By: bob marley

bob marley — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:15:12 +0000

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

By: mierda media

mierda media — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:02:28 +0000

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)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:19:46 +0000

[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.

By: John Doe

John Doe — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:16:01 +0000

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

By: duh

duh — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:13:07 +0000

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.

By: ears

ears — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:34:28 +0000

@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?

By: Banana

Banana — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:25:33 +0000

@27 yes very true because they pad with MPAA secret code

By: p2pvine.com

p2pvine.com — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:18:51 +0000

BitComet Reaches Milestone with v1.00…

Almost 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….

By: donb

donb — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:12:44 +0000

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.

By: dyslexic

dyslexic — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:52:11 +0000

Who’s Al Gore and why should I care about his padding files?

By: XS

XS — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:45:18 +0000

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 ÂµTorrent 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.

By: SPYCOPY

SPYCOPY — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:58:22 +0000

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!!

By: lolwut

lolwut — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:48:43 +0000

ShitComet is also insta banned on all my clients and trackers. Use a real client.

By: dwpbike

dwpbike — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:39:32 +0000

[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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:26:45 +0000

>>22

Please explain instead of making purely baseless comments.

By: Delaware

Delaware — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:21:34 +0000

ÂµTorrent 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 !!!

By: Andy123

Andy123 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:17:00 +0000

BitComet is BANNED on many private trackers since you can cheat using this crap piece of software.

uTorrent all the way!!!

By: Aninhumer

Aninhumer — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:11:24 +0000

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.

By: Norm

Norm — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:46:52 +0000

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.

By: justme

justme — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:31:51 +0000

[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

By: justme

justme — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:30:02 +0000

[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

By: Pam

Pam — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:15:40 +0000

[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.

By: Vince

Vince — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:20:20 +0000

Yea that’s it #10, bitcomet rules, bush and putin are good people, global warming doest not exist, go you!

Retard.

By: ice

ice — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:18:45 +0000

bit comet is still junk comet for me