- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
- Date added: July 30, 2009
- Total Downloads: 74,470,876
- Downloads last week: 109,631
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 2714 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:
- GUI Improved: support Wed Seed when make torrent file
- GUI Improved: support modify Wed Seed list in BT task properties dialog
- GUI Improved: display download/upload rate of user group in peer list of BT task
- GUI Improved: display downloading piece position in peer list of BT task
- GUI Improved: display balloon on system tray icon when disk busy leading to GUI losing response
- GUI Improved: new appearance option: minimize when program start see all new features
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User reviews of BitComet 1.14
- Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 2714 votes
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Version: BitComet 1.14
Pros: A lot of sites are linked to it.
Cons: I still can't find all the music I am looking for.
Summary: Average to good
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Version: BitComet 1.14
"good but some problems with speed."
Pros: clean and very friendly
Cons: some peers and comments are no really truly
Summary: problem with speed.
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Version: BitComet 1.14
"Not the best way to pull free music"
Pros: Free of charge
Integrated search featureCons: Not the best way to get free music (there are better alternatives such as iGetMusic)
Summary: 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 pretty good app to search for and download MP3s and other media files. However, there are some serious drawbac... read more >>
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Version: BitComet 1.14
Pros: its fastest
Cons: nothing at all
Summary: couz its useful
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Version: BitComet 1.14
Pros: can download lots of material.
Cons: hard to use, not very good directions.
Summary: has lots of potential, if you can figure out how it works.
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