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Is Bitcomet spamming? Fri May 23, 08 06:32 PM

By XSTREM
From forum_name, BitComet Forum
If you shut down BitComet, it'll send a stopped-announce to both the tracker and peers, the tracker will remove your IP and the peers should close the connection. Of course, if you kill the proces in the taskmanager, that won't happen and several peers will try and contact your client. That'll show up as traffic.

In addition, almost every client has a peer-cache. Your IP won't be removed from that cache, and peers will try and contact you when restarting.
That results in constant traffic going to your port, but your PC will reject the traffic (or more accurate: Packages) since there is no client to communicate with. The connection is closed.
As kluelos says, there can go hours (or days) before every connection attempt have ceased.

There is nothing odd about what you're experiencing, melst.

Is Bitcomet spamming? Fri May 23, 08 06:21 PM

By kluelos
From forum_name, BitComet Forum
When you stop a bittorrent client, however you DO stop it, you'll continue to receive data for quite a while. More than a few minutes.

It takes time for you to be dropped from the tracker's list of interested peers, and from the DHT database, and once you have been dropped, even longer for word of that to spread out to all of the other peers. They will all have to have successfully re-scraped the tracker, and gotten a new peer list that doesn't have you on it, before they get the word that you're not in the swarm anymore.

If you just killed your client instead of shutting it down properly, then all of that won't even get started until the tracker figures out you're not around anymore because you haven't updated in quite a while, and finally drops you from the list.

This is harmless, just means some of the peers will try to contact you and won't succeed, but it can take a couple of hours before everyone gets the word.

Is Bitcomet spamming? Fri May 23, 08 02:36 PM

By XSTREM
From forum_name, BitComet Forum


Hello, melst, and welcome to the forums.

The answer to your question is of course: No. BitComet is not a spambot in any ways.
It's simply not designed to be that.
However, BitComet has an option to "hiddenly" upload data without your control. It's called "Long-time Seeding", and you can easily disable or limit it in "Options --> Advanced -->Long-time seeding". Just note that you cannot connect to other long-time seeders, if you disable the long-time seeding. Long-time seeders are HTTP and FTP servers, a long with other BitComet peers.
If you have a slow uploadconnection, I recommend to limit the long-time seeding to 10kB/s or disable it if you don't need it.

The long-time seeding should stop if you close BitComet. Every thread related to BitComet should be terminated when you close BitComet.

Yes, when you start BitComet, the client will use bandwidth. In the first few minutes, it'll connect to DHT nodes and the CometZone network. If you abruptly close BitComet while downloading or seeding tasks, there will be some dataflow a few minutes after, due to "stop-announce" and ceasing connections to all the peers. It should stop a few mins. later though.

You say it doesn't stop before you restart your computer? That is very unlikely anything related to BitComet.
I recommend you run a full antivirus scan from: http://www.grisoft.com/ww.download-trial
Download the trial version, install it, update it. Restart in safe-boot mode and run a full systemscan.
Also, run Spybot S&D (remember to immunize when you've updated the application): http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html to see if some nasty crapware is installed.

Of course, a long with a good antivirus and firewall, you should be safe.

Best regards,
XSTREM.

Is Bitcomet spamming? Fri May 23, 08 02:02 PM

By cassie
From forum_name, BitComet Forum
Please do not make duplicate posts in multiple fora.

Hi I am 'new'. Fri May 23, 08 01:59 PM

By cassie
From forum_name, BitComet Forum
Hello and

how to recover deleted tasks Fri May 23, 08 06:59 PM

By kluelos
From forum_name, BitComet Forum
Yes. You'll need the same torrent file you had before. If you saved a copy to disk, use that. If you didn't, get into that habit from now on, for cases just like this where you need the file again. Check in the torrents subdirectory of your program directory to see if a copy is still in there.

If not, you'll have to find it on the internet again and download it. It must be the same .torrent file, not just the same contents.

When you've got it, open it in BitComet using the menu, but don't start the task yet. Make sure the partial download is present in the default download directory, then right-clieck the task and do a manual hash-check to validate the partial. This will take a while and the percentage counter will now show the progress of the check. When it completes, it should revert to the percentage you had downloaded before.

If it does not, and finishes very quickly, then it isn't finding the partial download where it's supposed to, or it's the wrong .torrent file and doesn't match the one you had before.

Continue downloading on a different computer Thu May 22, 08 06:19 AM

By dDk
From forum_name, BitComet Forum
Thanks for your reply !

Continue downloading on a different computer Wed May 21, 08 08:11 PM

By kluelos
From forum_name, BitComet Forum
In the program directory, the "bitcomet.xml" file contains your preferences/options/whatever-they're-being-called-this-week

The "downloads.xml" file contains your current task list.
The torrents subdirectory contains copies of the .torrent files being processsed in the task list

The default download directory, or the task-specific download directory for each task if changed from the default, contains the downloaded contents, whether complete or not.

Make sure you preserve all of these, and stitch them together on the new computer -- changing your preferences/options/whatever-they're-being-called-this-week as necessary, and you should have no trouble picking up where you left off.

Probleme connection Mon May 26, 08 07:00 PM

By cassie
From forum_name, BitComet Forum
Hi,

Even though you say that the problem has solved itself (although you do not say how), it may arise once again.

Now, you say that you have forwarded your port but, have you created a static IP address, as well?

If not, and since your ISP will more than likely have assigned you with what is known as a 'dynamic' IP address (one that changes every so often, without warning you of the change), those 'Remote' peers will not know where to contact you, and you will be left with only 'Local' connections (those that are initiated by yourself).

This does not mean that you will not be able to download anything... it just means that your downloading will be a lot slower than what it could otherwise be.


Salut,

Bien que vous disiez que le probleme s'est resolu tout seul (meme si vous ne dites pas comment), il peut survenir encore une foi.

Maintenant, vous dites que vous avez ouvert votre port, avez-vous cre?une adresse IP statique egalement ?

Si ce n'est pas le cas et puisque votre ISP (FAI) vous aura vraisemblablement assign?ce qui est connu comme une adresse IP "dynamique" (une qui change de temp en temp, sans vous prévenir du changement), ces peers "Eloignés" ("Remote") ne sauront pas o?vous contacter et vous serez laissés qu'avec les connexions "Locales" ("Local") (ceux qui sont initiés par vous-meme).

Ceci ne veut pas dire que vous ne serrez plus capable de telecharger quoi que ce soit... ?a signifie seulement que votre telechargement sera beaucoup plus lent que ce qu'il pourrait etre autrement.

Probleme connection Wed May 21, 08 08:39 AM

By latino94
From forum_name, BitComet Forum
merci pour votre aide qui na pas eu lieux probleme resolu seul


Thank you for your help that has not occurred. Problem solved by himself.

How to download Youtube videos to iPod, iPhone, Cell Phone, Zune, PSP, etc. Fri May 23, 08 08:57 AM

By Betty0920
From forum_name, BitComet Forum
I downloaded it from here. (Link removed - mod)

The forum does not permit advertising.
The forum does not permit "just recommending"'s that are advertising for paid software.
Topic closed.

How to download Youtube videos to iPod, iPhone, Cell Phone, Zune, PSP, etc. Wed May 21, 08 08:29 AM

By carriejoy
From forum_name, BitComet Forum
Good tool, I use it too, easy to use , so I like it.

Wanting to stop task from uploading when it is finished downloading Wed May 21, 08 07:39 AM

By Imperium
From forum_name, BitComet Forum
No.

The box Fri May 23, 08 12:58 PM

By XSTREM
From forum_name, BitComet Forum
Yes, it is banned.
However, I've made an attempt on unbanning the client, and the admin said he would consider it - but only if the tracker response error bug and the "COMPLETED-announce"-bug would get fixed.
Those two bugs should get fixed in the next version, if everything turns out well. Until then, download μTorrent from http://www.utorrent.com and grab the files. You can easily run two BitTorrent clients on the same time. They won't conflict.
I for instance both use BitComet and μTorrent. μTorrent on those few trackers I'm using that have banned BitComet, and BitComet on all open trackers and private trackers that have unbanned it.

Best regards,
XSTREM.

i need help Wed May 21, 08 02:14 AM

By cassie
From forum_name, BitComet Forum
Hi,

Whenever you install a new client (whether it be BitComet or any other), you should not leave it "as is" (default settings), as you will never be able to get the maximum performance out of it that you can. You will have to configure it, in accordance to your own specific system's setup.

Please read here...

http://forums.bitcomet.com/index.php?showtopic=8210

and make sure to include as much detailed information (speed test results, settings used, which Guides/Tutorialsyou have followed, the circumstances that led/just prior to your issue, etc.) as possible - too much is preferred to not enough.

The (famous) red X showing up Fri May 23, 08 04:49 PM

By Who_Plays
From forum_name, BitComet Forum
Thank you for your help. The problem indeed wasn't bitcomet, my hard disk turned out to be broken (on not a week old pc ). I have a new disk now and it's all working fine again.

The (famous) red X showing up Wed May 21, 08 08:18 PM

By kluelos
From forum_name, BitComet Forum
It means that BitComet can't write to the disk. That could be for any of the many reasons that programs can't write to disks. You will have to figure out which one is affecting you. If it was working fine and suddenly stopped, this suggests either a disk-full problem, which you assure is not the case, or a hardware write failure, which is more ominous.

Try doing a disk-check of the partition, set to automatically fix errors. That will take a long time, alas. If that still doesn't work, do it over and include a surface check. That will take a great deal longer, I'm afraid.

Your event-viewer probably contains details about what specifically went wrong,

The (famous) red X showing up Wed May 21, 08 09:22 AM

By Who_Plays
From forum_name, BitComet Forum
Space is definitely not an issue, so the only thing left is restarting the download? Not really what I hoped for, but thanks anyway.
EDIT: That didn't solve anything, it stopped at 0.1%.

The (famous) red X showing up Wed May 21, 08 01:01 AM

By Imperium
From forum_name, BitComet Forum
Red X means that you are wither out of space or the file is corrupted. The only way you can fix that is free up space or totally restart your download by deleting the data.

From: An urgent and highly needed feature request. (Related to all client versions) Mon Apr 14, 08 03:27 AM

By x0r
From forum_name, BitComet Forum
Would like to bump this thread to yet again bring attention to the bug.