BitTornado developer John Hoffman, better known as Shad0w, decided to ban BitComet users from accessing his client. Shad0w says that BitComet is gaming the system and stealing precious bandwidth, which results in slower speeds for all non-Bitcomet users.
Here’s a roundup of some of the BitTorrent related tutorials we wrote this year. Twelve tutorials in total, so there will probably be something interesting for everyone.
It turns out that the popular hosting company Dreamhost is shutting down any BitTorrent trackers hosted on its servers. In a letter to a customer, a representative of Dreamhost said “BitTorrent is strictly forbidden, both as a client and as a server right now.”
In general BitTorrent clients are not the most “resource using” applications. But how do they actually affect, and slow down Windows?
Thepcspy compared the three most popular BitTorrent clients. And it seems that uTorrent is indeed entitled to be called “the lightweight client”.
The mean boot time of Azureus, Bitcomet and uTorrent were compared on a [...]
Bitcomet is trying to get to V1.0 as soon as possible. While the popular BitTorrent client only released 4 new versions in 2005 (0.57 – 0.60), it now releases three “brand new” versions in one month.
And yet another fresh release of the popular BitTorrent client Bitcomet. Bitcomet 0.64 now supports rss-feeds and the optional IE toolbar has been removed.
Other changes:
- GUI Bugfix: chat user list is removed temporarily
- Core Bugfix: fix the bug that the play button doesn’t work after click stop button in task preview window
- Core Bugfix: [...]
Bitcomet, one of the most popular BitTorrent clients decided to follow Azureus and uTorrent by implementing PE/MSE encryption in its latest release. Bitcomet was the first BitTorrent client that supported protocol header encryption, the switch to the new encryption method means that the three biggest torrent clients out there are using compatible encryption methods, good [...]
Configuring your torrent client the right way is important to get the best speeds out of BitTorrent. This simple script calculates the optimal settings for your torrent client to maximize the speed of your BitTorrent downloads.
A new release of the popular BitTorrent client Bitcomet just came out. This new version mainly consists of bugfixes.
A new version of the popular BitTorrent client Bitcomet was just released. The new release doesn’t ignore the “private flag” like version 0.60 did.
Slyck reports that an increasing number of private trackers is banning Bitcomet because it is ignoring the “private flag”.
