BitComet 0.80 has been released

Posted by Martin in Operating Systems, Tools, Windows  Tags: , , , , ,

19

Dec



While downloading the latest version of the bittorrent client BitComet it came to my mind that I never wrote an article about this excellent client here at ghacks. I have written about Azureus and uTorrent which I have tried both but not about the client that I’m personally using because I think it is the best one of the bunch. I like BitComet because of several reasons: speed, usability and because it is using low resources.

I do know that uTorrent qualifies for those reasons as well but I encountered an error at the time I was using uTorrent which had no fix and I therefor had to make a change. BitComet has a clean interface which uses a split screen to display the information. The left side contains the navigation with entries such as Downloading and Downloaded and links to some torrent websites as well. I have never used those links but it could be useful for some.

The right pane displays the files that you are currently downloading or seeding with typical information like size, speed and time. It would be a good idea to visit the options before you start using BitComet, you find them in Options > Preferences.

If you know what you are doing you should tweak your connection settings and change the default download location. BitComet has a CPU usage of about 2-3% even when I’m downloading many big files at once. Ram usage stays between 50-60 all the time, less if you download smaller files.


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Mike says:

Bitcomet has many, many problems “under the hood”.
It lies to peers, hammers seeders for no reason, and it ignores many other rules.

Leo Calipelli says:

You know, Martin… uTorrent & Azureus are both death meat.

uTorrent is closed source and now the discographics industry got the licenze right on it, on other hand Azureus is heavy and not a good client for low-profile systems (even high-profile systems got no benefit from running this heavy java bulk client…)

So… BitComet seem to be the only decent client left, but is closed-source, mean no one really know what is running on the machine.

Want to test a client ?
Try Ktorrent, far better the standard client (it’s only my tough, off course)

;)

Martin says:

Ktorrent, might try that one out, do you have a weblink ?

Leo Calipelli says:
bondurant says:

I agree with Leo , Ktorrent is a decent client.
& Most of the private trackers I use have a ban on BitComet because of the reasons mentioned above - it’s commonly called ‘BitVomit’ on the forums.

Leo Calipelli says:

One more thing :

Ktorrent is a linux client, so no win system can support it.
To avoid this problem and still use win (…) you can :

-Use a virtual machine inside win (like Vmware) to simulate a unix system.

-Use a distro like DSL (Damn Small Linux).
This distro create a virtual pc inside a win session (download the dsl-embedded from the homepage) so you can use unix software even in win environment.

Martin says:

Leo I have Ubuntu installed and will try it out there, thanks for the link.

sb says:

what about sababadc?

http://en.sababadc.com

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