Just a PSA that I2P exists if you want to try out anonymous torrenting. Head over to I2P for questions on how to set it up.

I won’t answer questions that could get me into legal trouble, but I’d be happy to help with more generic I2P things.

  • CAVOK@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Just to update you on the speed issue. I’m trying out a small swarm legal download at the moment, less than 10 peers and I’m at +300kBps, which admittedly is shit compared to what you can get from normal torrents. I have seen download speeds in the MBps, but that’s rare.

    I’d guess normal speeds are 1 - 500kBps.

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      1 year ago

      It’s worth pointing out that depending on the type of content you’re downloading +300kBps is pretty darn good. For ebooks, audiobooks, songs, and some isos those speeds are plenty. It’d be pretty interesting if a niche around those kind of contents developed for I2P torrenting.