1 2 3 Announcements to the tracker are made via IPv6 if possible, but the client doesn't listen on the respective port.
1 2 Linux version works, Windows version has not been working with IPv6 due to Java Bug 6230761
↑ The official BitComet website claims that "BitComet does not contain any adware or spyware". However, versions 0.85 to 0.97 contained advertising. The current versions no longer contain advertising, except in the web-based search window.
1 2 Automatically configure port forwarding (requires Router with UPnP support)
1 2 DHT permits use of trackerless torrents (with supporting clients) to resume normal torrents when their tracker is down. However, some trackers that register their users for keeping tabs on fair usage (such as a ratio of bytes downloaded to uploaded) may not reliably measure and update usage for users employing DHT.
↑ Since version 2.5.0.2. It's UDP based, an experimental feature and only supported by other Azureus clients
1 2 Has its own DHT, a mainline-DHT compatible implementation is available as plugin
1 2 3 Tracker included with Linux binaries and with source, but not with Windows binary
↑ Exchanging with BT 6 and µTorrent clients (and now MooPolice)
↑ It's UDP based, an experimental feature and only supported by other Azureus based clients
↑ Localhost uses a DHT protocol called Kademlia to connect to peers that are running Localhost. Each peer has an index of directories and files that it shares with peers that it is connected to. No one peer is responsible for storing the entire directory structure, it is distributed among everyone. It is collaboratively maintained, edited and built upon by all users in a popularity based system.
1 2 Reduces disk usage, file fragmentation (in case it is not preallocated) and latencies due to larger written blocks and cached data for hash checking finished pieces.
