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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: December 14, 2006
- Total Downloads: 70,485,480
- Downloads last week: 154,147
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 2704 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This free P2P application lets you find and download files using a unique system. On the left side of the three-pane interface, you choose from a long list of Web pages that contain files you can download. Different sites offer different types of files, and the subject matter is usually apparent by the name. When you opt to download a file, a smaller file appears on your desktop, which you then open in BitComet.
After a bit of a wait, the application aggregates users that have your requested file and starts a swarm download that gradually grows in sources and speed. We like the enormous variety of files available for download, but aside from paging through categories, there are not many ways to search for specific files. Still, the addition of a preview function helps. The BitComet client offers chat capabilities, stats trackers, and the ability to bookmark your favorite sites.
Overall, we think BitComet and the BitTorrent system are a great alternative to most file-sharing apps, and the fact that this download is free sure doesn't hurt.
Publisher's description
From BitComet :BitComet is a powerful, clean, fast, and easy-to-use BitTorrent 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. Version 0.80 supports preview video file while HTTP downloading, and other GUI changes.
What's new in this version:
- GUI Improved: new designed HTTP properties dialog layout
- GUI Improved: start preview video file while http downloaing from toolbar button or task context menu
- GUI Improved: support display URL with non-English UTF-8 characters correctly in English version Windows
- GUI Improved: display "Minimize to tray" in task-bar context menu of BitComet if enabled
- GUI Improved: new setting of "Optimize download strategy for preview" in Task setting page of preferenc... see all new features
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User reviews of BitComet 0.80
- Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 2704 votes
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17 out of 18 people found this review helpful
Version: BitComet 0.80
Pros: Easy to use, has built-in torrent searches, and very fast. Is superior to other torrent programs.
Cons: none
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13 out of 14 people found this review helpful
Version: BitComet 0.80
Pros: This software is free and easy to use. It provides you with torrent sites that you can search in for. This is more safer than Limewire and Morpheus because it is virus free. Although the speed may be slow or fast depending on seeders. I recommend getting a bitcomet accelerator patch to speed up your download process.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: BitComet 0.80
Pros: It's free and easy to use and includes a variety of bandwidth controlls including hour-by-hour throttling via scheduler feature.
Cons: VERY BUGGY. Recurring bugs I've encountered over various versions: 1) Downloads stall at 99%. But then you manually stop then start the task and it's magically 100% and completed. That's annoying. 2) HANGS FREQUENTLY requiring hard power off, you can't even end task on the damn thing it hangs so bad 3) Doesn't hang but somehow terminates all network traffic. Exit the app, network apps work again.
I'm through with this apps problems, specifically hanging and requiring hard resets. I've tried modifying various options per websites, same issues. Off to find a better and more stable torrent app.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: BitComet 0.80
Pros: adware/spyware/virus free! it is very easy to use (personally, easier than other p2p programs like Azureus). it has relatively fast downloads, depending on your internet bandwidth speed.
Cons: i wish the preview feature would work no matter how fast your download speed is, but other than that, no complaints!
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4 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: BitComet 0.80
Pros: not a resource hog!sometimes it gets faster depending on the seeds.if you want to download faster choose the greater number of seeds
Cons: none
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