If you've just started I2P, the Active: number on the left should start to grow over the next few minutes and you'll see some local "destinations" listed on the left (if not, see below). Once those show up, you can:

- blog anonymously - check out Syndie
- chat anonymously - fire up your own IRC client and connect to the server at localhost port 6668. This points at one of two anonymously hosted IRC servers, but neither you nor they know where the other is.
- browse "eepsites" - on I2P there are anonymously hosted websites - tell your browser to use the HTTP proxy at localhost port 4444, then browse to an eepsite -
  - orion.i2p: a site which tracks eepsite uptime and changes
  - forum.i2p: a secure and anonymous connection to forum.i2p.net
  - www.i2p: a secure and anonymous connection to www.i2p.net
  - search.i2p: an anonymously hosted search engine of eepsites
  - ugha.i2p: ugha's eepsite, a wiki that anyone can edit, and lots of links
  - dev.i2p: a secure and anonymous connection to dev.i2p.net
  - Freenet proxy: fproxy.tino.i2p
  There are many more eepsites - just follow the links from the ones you see, bookmark your favorites, and visit them often!
- browse the web - there is currently an HTTP "outproxy" in I2P hooked up to your own HTTP proxy on port 4444 - simply set your browser's proxy to use it (as above) and go to any normal URL - your requests will be bounced through the I2P network.
- transfer files - there is an integrated port of the Snark BitTorrent client, which is compatible with the Python mainline I2P-BT.
- use anonymous email - postman has created a mail system compatible with normal mail clients (POP3 / SMTP) that allows email within I2P as well as mail from and to the normal internet! get your account at hq.postman.i2p. We bundle Susi's susimail, a web based anonymity-oriented pop3/smtp client configured to access postman's mail services.
- and lots more

## Want your own eepsite?

We've bundled some software to let you run your own eepsite - a Jetty instance listening on http://localhost:7658/. Simply place your files in the `eepsite/docroot/` directory (or place any standard JSP/Servlet `.war` files under `eepsite/webapps`, or standard CGI script under `eepsite/cgi-bin`) and they'll show up. Your eepsite's destination (which uniquely and securely identifies it) can be found via the I2PTunnel configuration page - on the details page of the "eepsite" tunnel. If you want other people to see your eepsite, you need to give them that really huge string. Just paste it into the Eepsite announce forum, add it to ugha's wiki, orion's list, or paste it in the #i2p or #i2p-chat channels on IRC (be sure to split it into two lines, as its too long for one).

## Troubleshooting

If, after 5 or 10 minutes, your Active: x/y count has less than 20 active peers, you may want to review the information on the I2P website, post up messages to the I2P discussion forum, or swing by #i2p or #i2p-chat on IRC at irc.freenode.net, irc.postman.i2p or irc.freshcoffee.i2p (they're linked together).

As a note, you can change this page by editing the file "docs/readme.html"