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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: November 10, 2009
- Total Downloads: 74,927,068
- Downloads last week: 128,266
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 2708 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 1.16 add "Task Tags" page to Options dialog default download folder for each tag can be set here and improve "Directories" page in Options dialog task tags for each candidate download directory can be set here.
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Version: BitComet 1.16
"Not a good way to get free music (better use iGetMusic)"
Pros: Free of charge
Integrated search featureCons: Too many fakes
Requires a lot of work from the userSummary: P2P networks have become popular as a way to get access (more or less legally) to, among other things, free music. BitComet certainly is a premier app to search for and download MP3s. However, there are some serious drawbacks. The first is that it i... read more >>
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Version: BitComet 1.16
"Top of the line. Very trustworthy"
Pros: Neat gadgets to see download progress
Cons: None that I know of
Summary: This is the industry leader in my opinion
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Version: BitComet 1.16
"Its great whats i can find and what i realy want 2 find"
Pros: As above its a great site
Cons: Well ummm theres nothing realy i can fnd bad on here
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