Usually it shows around 1-2 peers on the player when I watch videos on PeerTube. I just watched a video that had up to 20 peers.
Here are the stats
Total downloaded: 1.5 GB
* From servers: 149 MB
* From peers: 1.3 GB
Total uploaded: 618 MB
I left the video open while writing this text an now I uploaded a total of 1.0 GB.
Nice to see PeerTube in action in a real peer to peer way.
It’s really awesome and it’s also possible to setup your PeerTube instance as a peer, for another PeerTube instance’s videos.
You can see here:
The instance videos.abnormalbeings.space has a copy of the video 17 New Indie Games – June 2025, that’s hosted on PeerTube.wtf.
So when you go to the video, you’ll see it has at least 2 peers - peertube.wtf + videos.abnormalbeings.space.