Thursday 21 February 2013

A C++ BitTorrent/HTTP/FTP Download Client

BitComet is a BitTorrent/HTTP/FTP client that helps you make the most out of the BitTorrent file sharing protocol, aiming to provide high download speeds with a reasonable impact on the system resources.

BitComet is among the top players in this particular category, but it still struggles to face the competition and meet the highest user expectations. Just like all the other BitTorrent clients, its main purpose is to download files at very high speeds and it achieves this successfully. What sets it apart from similar clients is its stability, the support for HTTP/FTP, torrent exchange and anonymous downloads.

BitComet's interface doesn't have an original design, so to say, as it resembles a great deal to other torrent clients. Using it however is not rocket science if you are accustomed with BitTorrent clients.

Feature highlights include multi-mirror and multi-section downloading, quick resume, bandwidth scheduler, a dedicated tool to shutdown computer after the download is completed, Intelligent Disk Cache and Intelligent Connection Optimization.

One of the most appreciated upsides of this client is that it allows you to prioritize the first and the last segments of media files, so you can preview them before the download is completed.

With Bitcomet, you can share your torrent files with other users via a searchable P2P network, a feature called Torrent Exchange. Bitcomet also has support for anonymous downloads through a paid VIP feature, thus preventing others from monitoring your file transfers.

Other features can be enabled or tweaked from the Options section. From here, you can configure settings related to proxy, download task, long-term seeding, integration with Internet Explorer and Firefox, integrated virus scan, download scheduler and remote downloading.

Leaving all these things aside, BitComet seems to work just like other similar tools, although during our tests it proved a bit heavy on computer resources every time we downloaded files at high speeds. It however comes with speed limiters, so you can rest assured that computer performance won't be affected too much when downloading files.

Overall, BitComet still seems to struggle to reach the elite of this software category. Even though it sports a number of unique features, a slightly friendlier approach would definitely give it a boost.

BitComet description


BitComet is a BitTorrent / HTTP / FTP download management tool, which is powerful, fast and very easy-to-use. It contains many advanced features for BitTorrent download and extends its leading BitTorrent technology to HTTP/FTP to accelerate downloading up to 5 - 10 times faster, or more.

BitComet's chief features include an embedded Internet Explorer window for the purpose of allowing users to search for torrents within the program. Along with the features typical of contemporary BitTorrent clients, it supports UPnP gateway configuration, bandwidth scheduling, Webseeding, selecting downloads inside a torrent package, and NAT traversal.

When downloading, BitComet prioritizes the first and last portions of media files so that files may be previewed before they are completely downloaded. BitComet also allows users to share their torrent files on a searchable P2P network.

BitComet uses the Kademlia (mainline) DHT to operate even when the tracker is offline. BitComet is capable of downloading files over HTTP and FTP as well as bittorrent, and it includes download plugins for Firefox, Internet Explorer, CometBird and Maxthon.
Here are some key features of "BitComet":

· Torrent Share: Exchange torrent while downloading
· Magnet URI: Start BitTorrent download without .torrent file any more, using DHT network.
· Preview while Downloading: Preview of .avi .rmvb .wmv and .mov files is available during downloading process.
· Align File to Piece Boundary: Better for making torrent, fully compatible with old versions.
· Intelligent Connection Optimization: Configuration is automatically set to match your connection type.
· Intelligent Disk Cache: Memory cache is used to reduce the read/write frequency of your hard drive, increasing device life.
· Quick Resume: The torrents can be seeded or resumed immediately without time consuming scans.
· Auto Config ICF (Internet Connection Firewall) and ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) in Windows XP
· Auto Config UPNP port mapping in router (UPnP support is required in router, Windows XP is required).
· Option of Disabling and Setting Priority of Files in any torrent: Files can be disabled, so they are not downloaded; or set to higher / lower priority, allowing you to select which file finish first.
· Also support Multi-tracker, DHT, utf-8 extension, and UDP tracker Protocol v2.
· P2P downloading: BitTorrent technology is integrated into HTTP/FTP download, with which BitComet automatically finds other clients and gets data from them to increase your download speed,without additional bandwidth usage of the HTTP server.
· Intelligent File Rename: Automatic choose the best name for your download file.
· Preview while Downloading: Preview of mp3, rmvb, wmv, and qt is available during downloading process.
· Multi-Mirror download: Mirror servers are automatically found for the file being downloaded. Data from these servers are downloaded at the same time to increase download speed 300% or more.
· Multi-Section download: Files are split into several sections which are downloaded at the same time to increase the download speed up to 500% or more.
· Multi-Language Support: Multi-language web pages and encoded URLs can be correctly handled.
· Quick Resume: Stopped download tasks can be resumed from where they left off from both HTTP and FTP servers.
· Global and Per-Task Speed Limit, for Both Upload and Download.
· Bandwidth Scheduler and Automatic Shutdown.
Requirements:

· Internet connection


What's new in BitComet 1.35 Final:

February, 2013

· GUI Improved: show the "Saving data" tip when shut down computer while BitComet running (Vista or later)
· GUI Improved: max seeding time changes from 1000min to 99999min. max share ratio changes from 2000% to 9999%
· GUI Improved: do not show right-bottom corner popup tips by default
· GUI Improved: changes some text in UI
· Core Improve: support Firefox 18
· Other Change: switch to new translation site

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