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my experience with magnet links is that they are unpredictably slow: sometimes it works almost instantaneously, sometimes it takes literally forever to fetch th
by anarcat 8y ago
my experience with magnet links is that they are unpredictably slow: sometimes it works almost instantaneously, sometimes it takes literally forever to fetch the peers and the transfer never completes. busiest torrents will of course propagate better...
I was hoping I could transfer semi-public files (say some music with a friend) without putting them on the public trackers, but my tests with different clients were not conclusive, so those really only make sense for busy, wide-distribution torrents and not one-to-a-few transfers, for which things like magic-wormhole are a better alternative.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoYou might consider syncthing [1] for a private file sharing solution between friends. [1] https://syncthing.net/ https://syncthing.net/
- AnaniasAnanas 8y agoWouldn't the issue be solved if you added a tracker to it?
- anarcat 8y agoyes it would, but then it's not semi-private and if there's a tracker, why do you need magnet links in the first place?
- qwerty456127 8y agoYou could also try OnionShare
- jondumbau 8y agoThe DHT performs poorly for unpopular hashes, cold starts and with poorly configured networking. Particularly the last point, an open udp port is required for best results.