At least in arch, the package qbittorrent-nox now contains the ability to connect to i2p. For people starting out, using i2p you wouldn’t need to use a VPN to download your favorite “linux ISOs”; just use i2p and have a fully automated Jellyfin server!
I recommend using i2pd as the i2p router
You forgot to mention that download speeds over i2p are very slow.
Haha. Well, I guess I have a ulterior motive for promoting i2p; the more people get in it and contribute to the network (port forward the NTCP2 and SSU2 to accept transit tunnels) the better network speeds will get! Just the act of torrenting through i2p will help the network tremendously.
I have noticed that speeds in i2pd (c++) are faster than in the original java implementation so maybe you can try that out? It’s fast enough for my use case, but yes streaming torrents in i2p is still far away.
But the upside is, you don’t have to rely on a VPN to protect yourself against copyright trolls! Plus, putting it on a fully automated *arr stack means you can just add a movie on radarr and let the *arrs take care of everything in about a day or so. I average at about 200-300 KiB / s per well-seeded movie file, and around half that for something poorly seeded.
That’s still extremely slow compared to my 6MB/s network connection. Still you are right the more people that join the fast it will be.
The other issue I’ve found is it doesn’t have all the torrent selection the clearnet has.
Has this improved or is it still the same?
it is improving a load. Also you can ask on the wishlist of postman. Many folks are happy to reseed it for you or make it available on I2P.
You can have qBittorrent running in mixed mode, which doesn’t give you the privacy of i2p but does give you even more leachers than just using normal ip and helps grow the i2p network. Everyone should get i2p and use mixed mode or i2p only imo.