BitComet
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Screenshot from BitComet |
| Maintainer: |
RnySmile |
| Latest release: |
0.73 / 25 September 2006 |
| OS: |
Microsoft Windows |
| Use: |
BitTorrent client |
| License: |
Proprietary |
| Website: |
www.bitcomet.com |
BitComet is a BitTorrent client written in C++ for Microsoft Windows.
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Contents
- 1 Overview
- 2 BitComet DHT Criticisms
- 3 See also
- 4 External links
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Overview
BitComet is a P2P file-sharing freeware fully compatible with the BitTorrent protocol, one of the most popular P2P protocols designed for high-speed distribution of large files. BitComet supports simultaneous downloads, download queuing, selected downloads inside a torrent package, fast-resume, Mainline DHT, protocol encryption, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, peer exchange (PEX), UDP NAT traversal, proxy, IP filter, etc.
BitComet also provides an embedded Internet Explorer window for the purpose of making torrent searching easier. A default list of torrent index sites is included which users can modify to remove unwanted sites and add missing ones. Script errors are common, however.
Critics point out that since BitComet is closed source, there is no way of independently verifying whether the program contains spying code.
BitComet DHT Criticisms
During versions 0.59 to 0.60, BitComet received bad publicity because of an incomplete implementation of the DHT feature. DHT is a protocol that can connect peers without the need of a tracker. BitComet's implementation did not respect the 'private' flag of a torrent. This in turn allowed users that hadn't signed up to avoid download and upload ratio restrictions, which are common on private trackers. Many private trackers have now banned all versions because of the flawed implementation of the DHT feature that is unfair to the peers on the private tracker. Although this problem of not respecting the private flag was solved in the 0.61 release, there are still many DHT leaks. Thus BitComet remains banned on many private trackers.
Two of the major DHT bugs were fixed with the release of BitComet 0.64. These were editing the .xml file of the active .torrent to allow not only DHT but PEX to run as well. The other bug is pasting "DHT Network" into the tracker list in the properties section of a .torrent.
BitComet's upload slot limit is known not to work. BitComet has also been accused of favoring other BitComet users on uploads, hammering trackers, dropping piece requests, not obeying requests for keeping connections alive, willfully dropping conections without need and trying to reconnect with multiple connections in order to gain more uploadslots from the seeder ect. pp.
See also
- Comparison of BitTorrent software
External links
- BitComet's official website
Categories: BitTorrent clients | Freeware | Windows-only software
