This client also didn’t have the ability to download more than one torrent at a time.” “After running a torrent all night long I noticed my harddrive was running like crazy, grinding away as the torrent progressed and I wondered why the developers didn’t use a disc cache to prevent the constant need for repeated read/writes.

“In the beginning I was using another BitTorrent client developed in Python,” RnySmile says, commenting on his motivation to start developing BitComet. So today, after working with a team of translators, we aim to bridge this gap and unravel a few mysteries by presenting our discussions with BitComet founder RnySmile. One of the main reasons for this is that none of the 20-people strong development team speaks English. It now has a full featured HTTP/FTP download manager, a VIP downloading feature, and its own proprietary file sharing protocol which the developers call long-term seeding.ĭespite the wide range of features that have been implemented, BitComet has remained largely undiscussed in the English speaking part of the Internet. In recent years BitComet has been adding many features that have taken it way beyond being a regular BitTorrent client. Although most of its users come from Asia, the client is also well represented in the West, with more than 100,000 daily users in both the US and UK. With 2.5 million daily users, BitComet is without doubt one of the most used BitTorrent clients.

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