BitComet 1.33 Build 20120725 Beta. is a BitTorrent/HTTP/FTP client that helps you take 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 one of the top players in this particular category, but one that still struggles to face competition and meet expectations. As any other BitTorrent client, its main purpose is to download files at very high speeds, which it achieves successfully. What sets it apart from similar clients is its stability, its support for HTTP/FTP, torrent exchange and anonymous downloads.
Installing BitComet can be a deal breaker if you lack patience, as it tries to feed you a bunch of third-party software, which the program does not require in order to work properly. Also, it attempts to change the homepage of the browsers installed on the system. However, all of these can be turned down, thus keeping your system settings unaltered.
BitComet’s interface doesn’t have an original design, so to say, as it resembles a great deal to other torrent clients. Users are continuously presented with advertising banners, not to mention the fact that the torrent channel panel on the left of the GUI is cluttered with all sorts of search suggestions.
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 the rest of the crowd, 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.
Features of BitComet 1.33 Build 20120725 Beta
· 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
Go>>> | : | 32Bit - 64Bit |
|---|---|---|
| Size/OS | : | 9.1 MB / Windows 2K / XP / 2003 / Vista / Vista64 / 7 |
| License | : | Freeware |
| Type of file | : | EXE |
| Date | : | July 25rd, 2012 |
| Developer | : | Home page |
