How do you use BiglyBT to discover I2P torrents from different trackers? I tend to just go to postman.i2p and discover torrents there, but I want a way to discover torrents using BiglyBT and I2P. I know that BiglyBT has DHT capabilities, does that work over the I2P network to discover torrents (Perhaps through Swarm Discovery?)
Any seasoned captains out there?
According to the docs there’s some kind of search functionality built into it: https://github.com/BiglySoftware/BiglyBT/wiki/MetaSearch
Off-topic: I haven’t tried i2p in years and have never used BiglyBT. Out of curiosity, what download speeds are you seeing?
Depending on the number and kind of seeders I would say that I can download a “normal” movie (2-3 GB) in arround 4-12 hours (sorry that i dont have some real numbers, I could check again later for that). So you probably won’t be able to say “hey, i just saw this new i2p-torrent, lets quickly download it” but its defenitly usable, especially when building a library. The “worst” torrent I downloaded was like 50 GB of House M.D. that was seeded by just a single person, but after roughly 1,5 -2 Weeks it was done!
Shouldn’t it technically be possible to set this up with bitmagnet? Does anyone have experience with that?
Currently not possible. Bitmagnet would need to have new code to be able to properly talk to the mainline java I2P service to enable DHT over I2P bittorrent. Or the Bitmagnet devs could develop their own I2P service to talk to the I2P network but that might be even more dev work.
https://github.com/bitmagnet-io/bitmagnet/issues/303
Per https://geti2p.net/en/docs/applications/bittorrent
DHT support requires SAM v3.3 PRIMARY and SUBSESSIONS for TCP and UDP over the same session. This will require substantial development effort on the client side, unless the client is written in Java. i2pd does not currently support SAM v3.3. libtorrent does not currently support SAM v3.3.
I don’t use biglybt because I don’t have that much RAM. That is, I do have, but fucking windows is fucking aggressive with swapping for some fucking reason.
i2Psnark is an alternative. With a lot less features (and not mentioning the UX)
