How speek is sharing files.

[k00lkd]

Speek says it have p2p file sharing feature. While transferring files I feel like the speed is too slow. I want to understand how files are shared. Are they really p2p or the file will be transferred over the tor network.

[Speek-App]

Speek always, when sending messages and sending files, utilizes the Tor network to establish anonymous and secure communication channels between users. Although it is also a P2P-System, as each client acts as both a server and a client, allowing direct communication with other clients without the need for a central server to mediate the communication.

That said, the file transfer is really close to unuseable slow for larger files (~30 KB/s). With the current design, after each chunk is sent, the recipient is sending a confirmation, after which the next chunk is sent. This is obviously very slow.

I made a few changes that utilize multiple concurrent chunk transfers, which in my limited testing sped it up to ~300 KB/s. I will push those changes later.

[k00lkd]

Thanks @Speek-App for explanation. 30 KB/s to 300 KB/s is significant improvement. Looking forward to use it. However I'm still curious how much you're planning it to push. Will we see like 10-20 MB/s transfer speed in the future or we have any limitation due to network.