"Public Service Announcement", sorry, I thought that was a common shorthand.
Unfortunately the elephant in the room with I2P for torrenting is speed, given its routing nature. I haven't tried it myself, but I've seen it discussed in the past and how people were complaining about dial-up speeds. In your experience, what have your speeds been like? What's your average download speed? I'm guessing lower than 100kbps?
If it's that slow, do you think it's a problem of not enough peers... or of the routing protocol that needs to happen for privacy?
Speed is an issue. That's the trade-off you do for security. However the speeds have improved over the last couple of releases, but no where near what you get from "normal" torrenting.
Can't say what my average speed is because I don't know, but I believe it's higher.
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.
What makes it different is that I2P uses something called garlic routing to anonymize you and everyone participating in the swarm. So nobody can tell what you're downloading, except those in the same swarm, but they can't tell who you are because your id in the swarm isn't connected to your IP-address.
Other than that it's pretty much normal torrenting. Many clients such as BiglyBT already support I2P.
I don't use qbittorent I'm afraid, but someone created a tutorial for it if you know how to download from a torrent hash it's here: Torrent hash = 3F1D51095F9B116739172C1BCED149ACF2B10692
If not then there's a built in torrent client called I2PSnark in the java version. It's rather basic but it'll get the job done.
thanks for using Leebra!
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Off-topic question: what does “PSA” stand for?
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