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Has anyone tried I2P for torrenting? How is it?
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It's not how I normally torrent but it does seem to work okay. I've been experimenting with cross-seeding public torrents into I2P via qBittorrent 5.x (just using I2P, not torrenting publicly / no mixed mode / no need for VPN).
I've only picked up a few peers needing torrents I cross seed that way but otherwise does seem to work. Mainly the test torrents seem to get more hits e.g. seeding Ubuntu Linux ISOs so other people can test their torrent I2P setups.
I will add that currently I2P torrenting is a bit limited since Libtorrent itself does not support DHT via I2P so torrent clients like qBittorrent won't either. You always need to add I2P trackers to your torrents if you intend to torrent within I2P using qBittorrent or any Libtorrent based client.
The only torrent client that has the ability to torrent via DHT on I2P is I2P's own built-in torrent client (i2psnark) but that client has a lot of its own limitations, it's hard to use it as a primary torrent client.
Yeah I noticed that qbittorrent doesn't get me peers only i2psnark, but i2psnark is an awful client.
qBittorrent won't attempt to find any I2P peers unless you add I2P trackers to the torrents. After that it's hit or miss similar to public torrents.
These are working public trackers in I2P that I know of:
http://w7tpbzncbcocrqtwwm3nezhnnsw4ozadvi2hmvzdhrqzfxfum7wa.b32.i2p/a
http://opentracker.skank.i2p/a
http://opentracker.r4sas.i2p/a
http://opentracker.dg2.i2p/a
This tracker is also in I2P but it only tracks torrents registered at their site:
http://tracker2.postman.i2p/announce.php
Agreed. On the upside it's been around much longer for torrenting within I2P so I suspect a lot of I2P users just have that set up for torrenting purposes and that's how it's been for years.