You can’t connect to peers outside the i2p network
And i personally haven’t found any active torrenting community for i2p
So yeah i2p is really cool, but i don’t think you can pirate over it just yet
Postman has a quite active community, you can find a lot of stuff there already. It’s not quite on the level of clearnet torrenting yet, of course, but it can very much stand on its own
Does p2p over i2p require port forwarding? I have a cheap vpn (surfshark) that does not have port forwarding and i am almost never able to seed over it. Will seeding over i2p require port forwarding?
It functions without port forwarding, but it’s much better with. While I can’t speak for the Java client, i2pd has support for UPnP, which might make things easier in some environments. You also don’t need a VPN for I2P, since the network takes care of the anonymising
it’s generally advisable to not run a vpn in front of i2p. it will run better without one and you introduce another point of failure that can reduce your anonymity in some circumstances.
No, you’ll torrent fine via I2P without port forwarding. Note that the torrents are running through the I2P network so technically you wouldn’t want to open your torrent client to the clearnet anyway. It’d be like purposely introducing a VPN leak in your VPN setup by allowing it traffic outside the VPN (or in this case I2P).
Been a bit since I’ve tinkered with torrents over I2P but for a while I was seeding torrents over I2P and would get pretty good seed/upload speeds to other torrent peers. Was mainly testing with i2psnark and BiglyBT.
Fun fact: Torrent hashes don’t change, so that same exact torrent you might download at TPB or wherever would still download within I2P as long as there’s someone seeding it there.
Not exactly what you’re asking but you can open a port forward for I2P itself to better communicate with other I2P routers. “routers” in this case usually means other people running I2P.
we’re trying, also some clients will let you do that. snark and XD are i2p only, qbittorrent and bigly bt will let you pull peers from clearnet and i2p if they’ve been cross-seeded
you can use a vpn for clearnet like normal along with i2p,ideally i2p not through the vpn though. it’s a good way to cross-seed stuff into i2p though (you can do this as you’re downloading from clearnet peers) and every now and again might find some random i2p seed holdout on a “rare” torrent.
postman tracker was already shared somewhere around here, i recommend checking that out
ofc it’s nowhere near the level of clearnet but i’ve had good luck finding technical books as a test
download speed was pretty abysmal when i tried it a few years ago though so i didnt bother with anything bigger than 1 gb or so (took a few days to download a sizable book compilation)
You can’t connect to peers outside the i2p network And i personally haven’t found any active torrenting community for i2p So yeah i2p is really cool, but i don’t think you can pirate over it just yet
http://tracker2.postman.i2p are u sure? And also u can conbect to outside world with special proxy
Tell me more about this special proxy
https://mk16.de/assets/docs/outproxies_in_i2p-english.pdf simple and detailed explanation as the same time
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That’s why we need more adoption.
Postman has a quite active community, you can find a lot of stuff there already. It’s not quite on the level of clearnet torrenting yet, of course, but it can very much stand on its own
Does p2p over i2p require port forwarding? I have a cheap vpn (surfshark) that does not have port forwarding and i am almost never able to seed over it. Will seeding over i2p require port forwarding?
It functions without port forwarding, but it’s much better with. While I can’t speak for the Java client, i2pd has support for UPnP, which might make things easier in some environments. You also don’t need a VPN for I2P, since the network takes care of the anonymising
it’s generally advisable to not run a vpn in front of i2p. it will run better without one and you introduce another point of failure that can reduce your anonymity in some circumstances.
Can’t answer that sorry, i barely tried i2p
No, you’ll torrent fine via I2P without port forwarding. Note that the torrents are running through the I2P network so technically you wouldn’t want to open your torrent client to the clearnet anyway. It’d be like purposely introducing a VPN leak in your VPN setup by allowing it traffic outside the VPN (or in this case I2P).
Been a bit since I’ve tinkered with torrents over I2P but for a while I was seeding torrents over I2P and would get pretty good seed/upload speeds to other torrent peers. Was mainly testing with i2psnark and BiglyBT.
Fun fact: Torrent hashes don’t change, so that same exact torrent you might download at TPB or wherever would still download within I2P as long as there’s someone seeding it there.
Also see https://geti2p.net/en/faq#ports
Not exactly what you’re asking but you can open a port forward for I2P itself to better communicate with other I2P routers. “routers” in this case usually means other people running I2P.
we’re trying, also some clients will let you do that. snark and XD are i2p only, qbittorrent and bigly bt will let you pull peers from clearnet and i2p if they’ve been cross-seeded
But then you give away your ip, no?
you can use a vpn for clearnet like normal along with i2p,ideally i2p not through the vpn though. it’s a good way to cross-seed stuff into i2p though (you can do this as you’re downloading from clearnet peers) and every now and again might find some random i2p seed holdout on a “rare” torrent.
postman tracker was already shared somewhere around here, i recommend checking that out
ofc it’s nowhere near the level of clearnet but i’ve had good luck finding technical books as a test
download speed was pretty abysmal when i tried it a few years ago though so i didnt bother with anything bigger than 1 gb or so (took a few days to download a sizable book compilation)