- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
- Date added: January 21, 2010
- Total Downloads: 76,277,039
- Downloads last week: 120,292
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 2732 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on December 04, 2008
Taking a slightly different approach to solving the multimedia lover's dilemma of how best to download torrents is BitComet, which uses an interface heavily cribbed from Windows Explorer--with a dose or two from the basic BitTorrent template--to create something instantly recognizable to the user.
There's a familiar tree of features on the left, including links to torrent-aggregating Web sites and several promotional offers. The top of the app has big buttons with familiar icons, the center window shows the files being downloaded, and the bottom pane has tracker and peer info. The pane on the right rounds out the layout, with a torrent search feature and advertising. Among the usual features, BitComet offers chat capabilities, the ability to bookmark your favorite sites, a toolbar for Internet Explorer 7, and a context menu for Firefox 2.
While the app held its own against better-known competitors in terms of speed and handling multiple torrents, we found the ubiquitous advertisements to be annoying compared to the competition's ad-free environs. Overall, we think BitComet is worth trying and could become a major torrent app in the future.
Publisher's description
From BitComet :BitComet is a fast and easy-to-use BitTorrent/HTTP/FTP download client. It is P2P file-sharing freeware and one of the most popular P2P protocols designed for high-speed distribution. BitComet supports simultaneous downloads, DHT networks (trackerless), a download queue, selected downloads in the Torrent package, fast-resume, disk caching, speed limits, auto port mapping, proxies, and IP filtering.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.18 improves many GUi options and fixes error occurred when non-admin user try to modify IE integration setting under Vista/Win7.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 2732 votes
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: BitComet 1.18
Pros: search......
Cons: too slow.......
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Version: BitComet 1.18
Pros: Speeds up all downloads, faster than Gigaget+Download Accelerator Plus combined!!!
Cons: You have to register to get the optimal accelerated speed.
Summary: It's a great product, you just need to register. Before I installed it, I never knew that it was also a Download Accelerator!!!
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Version: BitComet 1.18
Pros: It keeps my downloads where I want to keep them. It provides me with the ultimate control of downloads from almost any site.
Cons: It would be neat if the program would automaticallly alert me as to why or when it cannot download a file.
Summary: The best download and onboard manager I have ever used
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Version: BitComet 1.18
"download speed has raised from 1.17 app"
Pros: just as easy as before
Cons: still breaksdown every now and again
Summary: the product has multiple uses and is quite user friendly
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: BitComet 1.18
Pros: nsds nothing
Cons: bad bad bad
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