Frequently Asked Questions

Understanding BitComet

• What is BitComet?

• Which platforms does BitComet support?

• Which port does BitComet use?

• I am new to BitComet and to BitTorrent generally. How do I use BitTorrent?

• Peers, seeds, torrent, tracker, DHT, Peer Exchange (PEX), Magnet Links; what are all these things?

• What do the icons next to the tasks mean?

• What's the meaning of the line "(+)-----bt_disconnected(n)" in the Peer tab --> IP column?

• What is "taskname.piece_part.bc!" among my downloaded files?

• How do I change my default directory?

• What is UPnP Auto Port Mapping?

• What is "Disk Cache", in BitComet?

• What is "NAT Traversal" in BitComet?

• What does the peer status "DUdu" or "IciC" mean?

• What is P2PCache (in Advanced Options)?

• What to do when garbled text appears in the CometID pane

• How to change the default media player to play/preview a file from the task list?

• What is the encryption option in BitComet and what effects does it have on the the way the client is operating?

• What is webseeding and how can I make use of it?

• What is Anonymous Download?

BitComet Client Issues and Possible Solutions

• What's this red cross that appears next to my torrent?

• I have a yellow status light and my download speeds are slow. What should I do?

• What is DHT? Why is BitComet telling me, "DHT not Connected", and what does that mean?

• My ISP is throttling P2P bandwidth. What can I do about that?

• How do I resume a previous download file from another client?

• All my other Internet applications either slow down or say they can't connect when I use BitComet. What's going on and how can I fix this?

• When BitComet is running my router/modem reboots itself or freezes. Why is this happening and what can I do to fix this?

• How many tasks can I run simultaneously at a time?

• How can I download embedded video from webpages, with BitComet?

• Tasks have disappeared/deleted tasks reappeared in my tasklist after a BitComet restart. How can I fix this?

• Why is the speed displayed in the Task List for my task(s), different from the ones BitComet shows in other areas? Why is BitComet uploading when there are no active tasks?

• What shall I do when BitComet failed to save task list and unfinished torrents?

• How can I transfer all my tasks to another computer?

Configuration and User Settings

• Up-to-Date BitComet Speed Guide

• BitDave's BitComet Settings Guide

• I use a router. How can I speed up BitComet?

• Why do my options/preferences reset by themselves whenever I re-start BitComet?

• How do I open my listen port in Windows Vista?

• How can I limit my download or upload speeds?

Known Client Issues and Incompatibilities

• Norton Antivirus constantly asks me to permit / decline things for BitComet. How do I stop this?

• I'm using an Nvidia software firewall, and BitComet uses A LOT of my resources. How do I stop this?

• PeerGuardian/Protowall Conflicts with BitComet

• What is the 4226 issue in Windows XP SP2?

• What are these "_padding_file..." things in the filelist?

• My file download stops at 9x.x%. What can I do about that?

• Why do some BT tasks' progress revert to 99.9% from 100% when their download is finished?

Torrent Related

• I've just finished my torrent download. What is/are all these files in the download? (e.g. so many numbered files, .iso, etc)

• What is "rubbish data" and why am I downloading so much of it?

• What are Private and Public Trackers?

• What can I do about tracker errors when I start a task?

• How do I create a .torrent file? How do I seed it?

• How do I configure a torrent for Multi-Trackers when I create one?

Still have questions?

• Official forum: http://www.cometforums.com

• Contact the development team: http://www.bitcomet.com/doc/contact.htm

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