Tixati is a BitTorrent client written in C ++ , which can be used on Linux and Windows designed to be light on system resources.
In addition to having the standard of a BitTorrent client, it shares several functions, Tixati offers comprehensive chat rooms with the channel's chat, as well as private messages being strongly encrypted.
According to the Tixati support page
Tixati's channel feature is a particularly good demonstration of how to build a decentralized network application that supports very high throughputs while remaining cryptographically secure in a 100% decentralized environment.
Users can optionally share lists of magnet links or links that can then be searched across all channels a user joins in chat.
Between Its main functions that we can highlight can be found:
- Simple and easy to use
- ultra-fast download algorithms
- DHT, PEX, and magnet link support
- Easy and quick to install
- RC4 encryption connection for added security
- Bandwidth management and mapping
- Peer UDP connections and NAT router
- Advanced features such as RSS, IP filtering, Event scheduler
Tixati is one of the most advanced and flexible BitTorrent clients available. And unlike many other clients, Tixati contains no spyware, no ads, and no gimmicks.
The interface is simple and intuitive, so it does the job. In the Tixati channels you can find all kinds of topics and content.
One of the secrets of the great speed of Tixati is the use of DHT technology, represented in its own tab, with graphs and lists of used IPs and events.
Thanks to DHT (Distributed Hash Table), all BitTorrent clients that share files have access to other users, thus facilitating the optimization of data download and upload and avoiding depending on a single computer to provide this information.
How to install Tixati on Ubuntu and derivatives?
In order to install this Torrent client on our system, We must go to the official website of the Tixati project and in its download section we can obtain the deb package for our system.
We can do this from the following link.
Done the download We can proceed to install the downloaded deb package with our preferred package manager.
Or from the terminal with:
sudo dpkg -i Tixati*.deb
And that's it, we can start using this Torrent client in our system.
How to use Tixati in Ubuntu?
The use of this application quite simple, so you can navigate the application interface without any problem.
Moment the only downside is that Tixati not only shows the IP address of each pair, you can even see the country they are in.
Unfortunately, this is a necessary feature of P2P file sharing technology (Between equals each one has to know how to connect to their computer to upload / download the torrent).
However we can fix this privacy leak problem by routing all torrent traffic through a third party server, so all colleagues will only see the IP of that server, not our own computer.
We will do this with a VPN and / or proxy service, but first, an important safety note.
Tixati, like all the other big torrent clients, has built in proxy support (1 of 2 methods that can be used to hide your Tixati IP address).
The problem is, Tixati only supports TCP connections through the proxy. Magnet and DHT links both use UDP protocols (instead of TCP). The point is, all unsupported connections will be forwarded out of the proxy tunnel, which could lead to your real IP address being exposed.
There are 3 solutions to this problem:
- Disable DHT 'and tracking UDP connections in the Tixati options (but this may bypass the magnet link download feature).
- Use a VPN (with or without a proxy)
- Use another torrent client with better proxy support