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.
BiglyBT works pretty well as an I2P-capable torrent client. I rarely see it mentioned in posts on I2P for some reason, but I’ve had good experiences with it.
Tried it, way better than I2PSnark, I wonder why it isn’t mentioned on the official page. I2PSnark should be abandoned in my opinion, it is simply awful.
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
BiglyBT includes an embedded I2P-Client
interesting, I thought I had to download and setup myself, ill look into this then
It’s possible, but Not necessary. The Plugin includes a client
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.
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?
