It is amazing, but it has the issue of not having that many user. I2P is great, but because not many people know about it and that it is harder to set-up than going to a torrent site and downloading, not many people use. I2P speed improve the more people use it. One other flow I found is that I2PSnark is awful and there is a need for a better client for it. From my understanding the more you seed, the better speeds you will get, thus it encourages seeding which solves the issue with normal torrent were a lot of people will not seed after a while. I think it is a great idea specially now that many torrent sites are being taken down.
I use XD. It’s still a web-based client but it’s much more smooth than I2PSnark. I also much prefer i2pd over the clumsy Java stuff of “default” i2p.
That client still does not support DHT via I2P correct? That’s what their github page says
https://github.com/majestrate/XD
I haven’t bothered trying it since it lacks DHT. For torrenting I2P with DHT I guess people are mainly going to use I2PSnark. (BiglyBT has limited support for I2P DHT but it is clunky and not very usable)
For torrenting I2P without DHT qBittorrent is working well, granted it is still quite new to the I2P scene.
I mean, that sure does suck but because most everyone is using the same tracker I don’t think it’s that big of an issue on i2p.
Never used I2P before because of slowness fear I got from Tor network and from the attempts I did and saw that awful Java client. But your approach made me interested again. Once connected there, how to reach content? Like downloading stuff and dig into what ot has to offer?
You can still use http://tracker2.postman.i2p or any other trackers on i2p (if they exist, it’s been awhile). You’ll just copy/paste the magnet links much like a traditional BitTorrent client.
I will say if you go this route, it does take quite some time to build enough tunnels for it to start working quickly. In other words, i2p feels much faster than Tor but not at first. I’d suggest browsing as many eepsites as you can just to get it going.
Tell ya what would be great, a follow up on this weddit post?
It would be nice if torrent clients included I2P support by default without the need for auxiliary tools. that being said, I don’t really know enough about i2p to understand the actual privacy benefits of it or viability of something like this
How do you get sites URL? I’m confused, there is no real search engine or crawler or directory… I was never able to surf i2p because I could not access any site… Any clue?
You need to configure your browser to first use the proxy that i2p is offering. From there, just browse to any eepsite (hostname ending with
.i2p). For torrents, you’ll likely want to check http://tracker2.postman.i2p.If you’re up to no good you probably want to visit an innocent site first to make sure your browser is sending the DNS query via i2p (or better yet, run your own DNS server that blocks all
.i2pqueries).
I use qBittorrent, I have used I2PSnark in the past, and it felt clunky and slow, and it was kinda difficult to use
The problem is that qbitorrent doesn’t support DHT via I2P only trackers, you can clearly see the difference in peer numbers if you use I2PSnark. Officially it should work, but I couldn’t get any peers.
Officially it should work, but I couldn’t get any peers.
Officially it won’t work. It’s impossible for qBittorrent to support DHT via I2P when Libtorrent itself does not support it. qBittorrent along with many other torrent clients are based on Libtorrent.
https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/7408
qBittorrent works well enough as long as you’re adding I2P trackers to public torrents you want to find I2P peers with. It’s not great but for now that may be the best solution aside from using I2PSnark (which like you said isn’t that great).
Fair enough, but I did try with tracker couldn’t connect with anyone, switched to I2PSnark worked very well.
