BitComet is a p2p file-sharing freeware fully compatible with Bittorrent, which is one of the most popular p2p protocol designed for high-speed distribution of 100MB or GB sized files. BitComet is a powerful, clean, fast, and easy-to-use bittorrent client. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc.
Changes since v0.57 2005.3.5 (BitComet 0.57 Stable):
GUI Improved: add Hash-check thread priority as an option
GUI Improved: add “Remove task only” confirmation
GUI Bugfix: disable file location change for paused tasks
GUI Bugfix: can not auto shutdown computer when desktop is locked
GUI Bugfix: the auto-stopped task can not upload
GUI Bugfix: fix the win98/me auto shutdown issue
GUI Bugfix: fix the dde regarding file association
Core Improved: add task option: peer info exchange enable
Core Bugfix: UDP tracker DNS resolve can cause stop response for 2s
Core Bugfix: continue download at startup can not work if crashed last time
Why use BitComet? |
- Clean and free, without any adware or spyware. ( Please note: Spybot may misreport “Comet Cursor” [read here] )
- Completely new core written in C++, stable and fast, very low CPU usage. (detail)
- Multiple simultaneous downloads, ability to select download files in one torrent and set file priority. (detail)
- Ability to limit the upload speed as well as download speed. (detail)
- Intelligent Connection Optimize, Auto Optimization for different connections, runs well using all default settings.
- Intelligent Rate Control, optimize the upload distribution in order to get the max download rate.
- Intelligent Disk Cache, decrease the potential damage to the hard disk when high-speed downloading (>500KB/s) by decrease the read / write frequency, extra memory usage is the cost. (detail)
- Intelligent Disk Allocating, no long-time disk allocation, also decrease the disk fragment to almost zero.
- Intelligent Hash Scan, no time-consuming scanning when seeding / resume. (detail)
- Firewall and NAT Traversal, users behind differect NAT can now connect to each other (new in v0.55) (detail)
- Auto config ICF (Internet Connection Firewall) and ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) in Windows XP
- Auto config port mapping in router (UPnP support is required in router, Windows XP is required). (detail)
- Ability to block IP temporarily or permanently, compatiable with eMule ipfilter.dat.
- Ability to chat with other downloaders ( disabled by default )
- Compatiable with Windows XP SP2 TCP/IP restriction (new in v0.55, more detail)
- ZIP package is also provided, which runs withoust installation.
- Using only one TCP listening port. (detail)
- Support Multi-tracker, and utf-8 extension, UDP tracker Protocol v2.
- [Please Note]: It is reported that Zone Alarm 5.0 conflict with BitComet (and other p2p maybe). (discussion here)
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