I use qBittorrent, I have used I2PSnark in the past, and it felt clunky and slow, and it was kinda difficult to use

Idk then, I’ve easily gotten speeds of upto 1.2 MiB/s while torrenting, uploading and downloading, I just downloaded a book from a webserver with wget to test my speed through the HTTP proxy, and I got about 150-300 KB/s throughout the whole transfer, I’m using the default settings of 3 hops, and my router isnt firewalled, no clue what the servers settings are.

Yes, you can take the quantity and length options from the http proxy and just paste it into the socks proxy section, I think tunnel quantity can go up to 16, I recommend 8 for high bandwidth stuff like torrenting, but it will use more CPU and battery, but lowering length from the default of 3 to 1 should help a lot.

No worries, hopefully increasing the tunnel quantity will get you acceptable speeds, I could be missing something, but thats all I can think of besides allowing inbound traffic.

Something I forgot to mention, there is the Java I2P router, its availiable in the default f-droid repo, I havent tested it out on Android, but it has a fancy gui on desktop where everything can be configured, it some blocklists of tor exit nodes and stuff, I think that helps performance, I’m not totally sure tho, I dont use the Java versions, they have too many buttons and switches, and its kinda overwhelming for me.

Increasing the tunnel length add more peers per tunnel, but increasing the tunnel quantity will add more tunnels, which will allow more throughput.

I’ve never used this app, but it looks like its using i2pd, I would look for the i2pd.conf, and change the bandwidth flag from L (32kb/s) to like O (256kb/s) or P (2048kb/s), but performance may still not be very good if your router is firewalled.

But you might just be getting bad peers, the speed of a tunnel will be limited by its weakest peer, I would try increasing tunnel quantity on both sides, and allowing inbound traffic on both routers if they arent un-firewalled already, if possible.

It should definitely be possible to setup NGINX & HTTPS to have your i2p router accessable at that domain, but id recommend just using the ssh tunnel with key-based authentication only, it adds an extra layer of authentication and encryption that cant be bruteforced or guessed.

But I strongly advise against having your I2P router bind to a public ip address with just plaintext HTTP

Ive been torrenting on I2P with qBittorrent for a lil while now, its not as fast as the clearnet, the fastest speed down ive ever got so far is 1.7MB/s, and this was on a torrent with loads of seeders. Its possible to increase your tunnel quantity and lower the amount of hops each tunnel has for better performance, but you will have less anonymity with less tunnel length.

But so far its been nice, there is no need to think about NAT/Firewall, as all peers can communicate with each other, but it doesnt have as much content as the clearnet, so I try to cross-seed what I can. But when im torrenting, I try to go I2P-first, and then fallback on the clearnet if I couldnt find what I was looking for.

I’m not very familliar with Java I2P, but I took a look at the documentation for Docker, and I didnt see anything about this issue, but I did have the same issue with i2pd in a container. I would try installing it manually and running it outside of the container.

If you need the bind mount feature from Docker, and you are on a systemd system, I recommand using systemd’s PrivateMounts feature. It can be added in a dropin file that can be created with the command systemctl edit i2p.service, the i2p.service may be different depending on your distro, but for Java I2P’s package on Arch its just i2p.service, but you can add the following in a dropin file to get the same private mounts just for your I2P router:

[Service]
PrivateMounts=yes
BindPaths=/XXX/i2pconfig:/i2p/.i2p
BindPaths=/XXX/I2P-data/i2ptorrents:/i2psnark

You might have to mess around with file permissions depending on who you run your I2P router as.

Sorry I dont have a better solution, I dont know much about Docker. But I think the developer of the Java I2P router is on r/i2p on reddit, and I think you can find him on http://i2pforum.i2p/, he prolly knows a whole lot more about Java I2P and the Docker image than I do.

Is your I2P router running in a container like Docker or systemd-nspawn? I had some issues with this error back when I ran my router in a systemd-nspawn container with VirtualEthernet=yes.

But id shutting down the I2P router and running something different on the same port like an HTTP server, and trying to access it from a vpn or tor or something and make sure your ISP isnt doing anything weird on this specific port.

And if you are using i2pd, you can goto the webconsole and go inside “Router Commands” and click “Run peer test” to have it test again. Im not sure how to do this in Java I2P tho.

I’m using Nheko, I know for sure that it works on Linux, I’m using it on my machine, but on the github it lists MacOS and Widnows in the tags, so I figure they are supported. It’s a native program written in Qt and C++.

I figure if its running all the time, it will use battery and data in the background, since it will be doing encryption and routing traffic. The last time I used an i2p router on my phone was over a year ago, I was using it to access my Invidious instance, I was using i2pd and had the bandwidth set to unlimited, it was running on public wifi, so it wasnt port forwarded or accessible outside of the LAN, I dont remember exactly what it said it used in bandwidth before I shut it down, but it was less than 100mb, idk what the battery was at before I turned it off, but it ran for about 2 hours that day.

Idk if im allowed to link it here, but for anyone having trouble accessing TG, they offer an onion service on tor, which is gonna be a whole lot harder to block, you can find the link on their official proxy list

You should crosspost this to !i2p@lemmy.world

Sure, the steps are different depending on which i2p router you are using, for i2pd, you just have to add a file in your tunnels.d directory, or add an entry in your tunnels.conf and then reload the tunnel configuration. In Java i2p, you will have to do it through the gui.

Here is the link to the tunnel config for i2pd: http://i2pcraft.i2p/example/i2pdtunnel.html And here is a link to a screenshot of Java i2p: http://i2pcraft.i2p/img/config.png

The tunnel length can be reduced to 1 for better performance, but you will sacrifice some anonymity.

But once the tunnel is setup and running, you can use Minecraft 1.19.2, or a newer version with ViaFabricPlus and connect to 127.0.0.1:25565. Its an anarchy server, but its pretty chill, I heard there is an iron farm and trained villagers for anyone to use near spawn, but I havent seen them. It is a cracked server, so you will have to use /register and save your password somewhere.

The other server is at mc.r4sas.i2p, I couldnt copy any links from there, I think its down rn, but the instructions for i2pcraft should be pretty much the same, just a different address. But I think its a russian speaking server, all of the players ive seen on i2pcraft speak english.

I dont use the outproxies for ssh, but it should be possible to connect to my server using its clearnet address using one of the outproxies. I have i2pd running on my server 24/7, and an entry in the tunnels.conf file that points to 127.0.0.1:22 on the server. When I want to connect to it, Ill run another i2p router on whatever device im connecting to, and Ill put the “.b32.i2p” address into ssh while using the SOCKS proxy for it. It is possible to make a client entry in the tunnels.conf on whatever device you are connecting from, and you can even turn the hops down to 1, which will increase performance, but lower anonymity. I think by default the SOCKS proxy uses 3 hops, but it can be changed.

But it should totally be possible to run your own private VPN over i2p, but Ive never done it myself, I just use ssh to port forward all of my self hosted stuff.

There are exit nodes in i2p, but they are called outproxies. The most popular ones are exit.stormycloud.i2p, purokishi.i2p, and outproxy.acetone.i2p. To setup an outproxy, you will have to setup software external to i2p, i2p routers by themselves will never exit. It is possible to visit onion domains inside of i2p, StormyClouds’s outproxy has support for this, but from what ive heard, its recommended to use none of these, and to just use the tor browser if you need to access onion sites or the clearnet anonymously.

There are many use cases for i2p besides eepsites and torrenting, pretty much anything that runs on TCP can prolly be ran on i2p. For example, I run my servers ssh over i2p, so if my ip address were to change for whatever reason, the i2p address will remain the same. There are also IRC services, internet radio stations, there are even 2 public Minecraft servers.

Nheko is my favourite client, it uses QT and is written in C++, its lightweight and works well on my machines with low resources, it also respects my system theme

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