I used i2p from InviZible Pro (F-Droid).

I was trying to connect my Monero wallet to a Monero RPC Damon that somebody I know runs and while it did connect the absolute best speed I could ever achieve through it was 45KiB/s. I changed no settings at all and just used the defaults. Turned it on and had 33 client tunnels.

Tor usually gets me ~400KiB/s to the hs, but i thought i2p would be faster.

Edit: it used 2 hops as default and i left it that way.

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    I really don’t feel as though I should have to change the default settings in order to make the experience good enough to be usable. That seems a bit counterintuitive. Also, wouldn’t increasing the tunnel hops, make the tunnel longer and therefore slower, because of going through more peers.

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      1 day ago

      Increasing the tunnel length add more peers per tunnel, but increasing the tunnel quantity will add more tunnels, which will allow more throughput.

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        Oh, my bad. I misunderstood when you said tunnel quantity and was thinking you were talking about tunnel hops. Unfortunately, I can’t do anything about the firewall aspect because over IPv4 I am behind CGNAT and on IPv6 I absolutely refuse to turn on UPNP of any kind because UPNP is dangerous to have enabled and I haven’t manually forwarded any ports

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          No worries, hopefully increasing the tunnel quantity will get you acceptable speeds, I could be missing something, but thats all I can think of besides allowing inbound traffic.

          Something I forgot to mention, there is the Java I2P router, its availiable in the default f-droid repo, I havent tested it out on Android, but it has a fancy gui on desktop where everything can be configured, it some blocklists of tor exit nodes and stuff, I think that helps performance, I’m not totally sure tho, I dont use the Java versions, they have too many buttons and switches, and its kinda overwhelming for me.

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            I didn’t see anything about tunnel quantity, specifically for the socks proxy. I did see something about it for HTTP, but I’m not using HTTP.

            [httpproxy]
            enabled = true
            address = 127.0.0.1
            port = 4444
            inbound.length = 1
            inbound.quantity = 5
            outbound.length = 1
            outbound.quantity = 5
            signaturetype=7
            i2cp.leaseSetType=3
            i2cp.leaseSetEncType=0,4
            keys = proxy-keys.dat
            addresshelper = true
            #outproxy = http://false.i2p
            ## httpproxy section also accepts I2CP parameters, like "inbound.length" etc.
            
            [socksproxy]
            enabled = true
            address = 127.0.0.1
            port = 4447
            keys = socks-proxy-keys.dat
            #outproxy.enabled = false
            #outproxy = 127.0.0.1
            #outproxyport = 9050
            ##socksproxy section also accepts I2CP parameters, like inbound.length etc
            

            However, since that socks proxy section says that it takes I2CP commands, I wonder if I could just paste the info from the HTTP part above.

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              Yes, you can take the quantity and length options from the http proxy and just paste it into the socks proxy section, I think tunnel quantity can go up to 16, I recommend 8 for high bandwidth stuff like torrenting, but it will use more CPU and battery, but lowering length from the default of 3 to 1 should help a lot.

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                I got no help from that whatsoever. It’s still extremely slow even after letting my clients sit there and integrate for over 30 minutes and seeing over a thousand routers.

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                  22 hours ago

                  Idk then, I’ve easily gotten speeds of upto 1.2 MiB/s while torrenting, uploading and downloading, I just downloaded a book from a webserver with wget to test my speed through the HTTP proxy, and I got about 150-300 KB/s throughout the whole transfer, I’m using the default settings of 3 hops, and my router isnt firewalled, no clue what the servers settings are.

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                    21 hours ago

                    I’m wondering if it’s because I am firewalled off, because on IPv4, I am behind CGNAT, and on IPv6, I have not done any port forwarding, and do not use UPnP.