# Suggestion/Feature: use Bittorent or IPFS to download packages

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/suggestion-feature-use-bittorent-or-ipfs-to-download-packages/1153
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [October 15, 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/suggestion-feature-use-bittorent-or-ipfs-to-download-packages/1153 "2018-10-15T15:00:53Z")
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### Author: ![vcunat](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/vcunat/32/11_2.png) [@vcunat](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/vcunat)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2018, 6:41pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/suggestion-feature-use-bittorent-or-ipfs-to-download-packages/1153/25 "2018-10-18T18:41:37Z")

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> [@Ekleog](#):
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> Well, I must say I didn’t do a survey, just took @vcunat’s word for bad  
> performance of IPFS…

For reference, the implementer of [the last solution](https://github.com/NixIPFS/nixipfs-scripts) tried IPFS first and ran into the bottlenecks (and notified upstream about them).

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