Introducing BitComet

There are plenty of BitTorrent clients out there, most are modifications of the original BitTorrent client, created by the protocol's inventor, Briam Cohen. However, in this guide, I'm going to teach you how to use a popular BitTorrent client, called BitComet.

If you wonder why I will do that and not use the original BitTorrent implementation, it is because the original BitTorrent client is not really user friendly and there really isn't any good reason to not use better, alternative clients.

The original BitTorrent implementation is programmed in Python, a somewhat unknown but good programming language. In the Windows version of the application, the application uses some libraries (DLL files) that convert the programming code into code that can be run on the operating system. Because of this, the BitTorrent original client takes a bit more memory and cpu cycles to do the same things other clients do. Like this client, the open source Azureus client relies on Java to work.

So, in this guide, BitComet is the star, a client programmed in Visual C++. It is one of the fastest BitTorrent clients and contains a lot of useful functions to make things easier for the person using it.

The client is not open-source but it is free and a lot of people are using it all the time. Let's move on and install it...

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