What are the advantages and disadvantages of using I2P instead of Tor? For what purposes is it better to use I2P, and for what purposes is it better to use Tor? What are the main differences in the protocols?

My goal is to create a personal i2p outproxy based on vps. Is there any good tutorial? I want to base it on i2pd. Thank you.

i cant go on any websites on i2p+ all it says is the connection has timed out or the proxy server is refusing connections. how do i fix this?

my service (wrapper) logs are
2025/01/11 00:29:50 | ERR  | [...eTimer2 1/6] ...SystemFacadeImpl: Network disconnected
2025/01/11 00:29:45 | INFO | Warning: Unable to reach any of the NTP servers [0.gb.pool.ntp.org, 1.gb.pool.ntp.org, 2.gb.pool.ntp.org, 0.europe.pool.ntp.org, 1.europe.pool.ntp.org, 2.europe.pool.ntp.org, 0.pool.ntp.org, 1.pool.ntp.org, 2.pool.ntp.org] - network disconnected? Or set time.sntpServerList=myserver1.com,myserver2.com in advanced configuration.
2025/01/11 00:29:35 | INFO | WrapperManager: Initializing...
2025/01/11 00:29:35 | INFO | Starting I2P+ 2.7.0-0+...
2025/01/11 00:29:35 | INFO | Native CPUID library jcpuid-x86-windows loaded from file
2025/01/11 00:29:35 | INFO | Locally optimized library jbigi-windows-coreihwl_64.dll loaded from file
2025/01/11 00:29:34 | WARN | Unable to write to the configured log file: C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\i2p\wrapper.log (The system cannot find the path specified. (0x3))
2025/01/11 00:29:34 | WARN | Unable to write to the configured log directory: C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\i2p (The system cannot find the path specified. (0x3))
2025/01/11 00:29:34 | WARN |   The directory does not exist.
2025/01/11 00:29:34 | WARN |   Falling back to the default file in the current working directory: C:\Program Files\i2p\wrapper.log
2025/01/11 00:29:12 | INFO | * Disconnected from router while waiting for tunnels
2025/01/11 00:29:12 | INFO | *  Shared Clients -> CLOSED Failed to build tunnels
2025/01/11 00:29:12 | ERR  | [...HTTPS Proxy] ...TunnelClientBase: Unable to build tunnels for client; retrying in 15s 
2025/01/11 00:29:12 | CRIT | [...-Connection] ...igServiceHandler: Hard shutdown initiated by Windows service control: 5
2025/01/11 00:29:12 | CRIT | [...-Connection] ...2p.router.Router: Initiating hard shutdown...
2025/01/11 00:29:12 | CRIT | [...-Connection] ...2p.router.Router: Completed hard shutdown
2025/01/11 00:27:07 | INFO | WrapperManager: Initializing...
2025/01/11 00:27:07 | INFO | Starting I2P+ 2.7.0-0+...
2025/01/11 00:27:07 | INFO | Native CPUID library jcpuid-x86-windows loaded from file
2025/01/11 00:27:07 | INFO | Locally optimized library jbigi-windows-coreihwl_64.dll loaded from file
2025/01/11 00:26:59 | CRIT | [...hutdownHook] ...2p.router.Router: Initiating graceful restart...
2025/01/11 00:26:59 | CRIT | [...hutdownHook] ...2p.router.Router: Graceful shutdown -> No active transit tunnels, starting final shutdown...
2025/01/11 00:24:16 | WARN | Unable to write to the configured log file: C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\i2p\wrapper.log (The system cannot find the path specified. (0x3))
2025/01/11 00:24:16 | WARN | Unable to write to the configured log directory: C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\i2p (The system cannot find the path specified. (0x3))
2025/01/11 00:24:16 | WARN |   The directory does not exist.
2025/01/11 00:24:16 | WARN |   Falling back to the default file in the current working directory: C:\Program Files\i2p\wrapper.log
2025/01/11 00:24:16 | INFO | WrapperManager: Initializing...
2025/01/11 00:24:16 | INFO | Starting I2P+ 2.7.0-0+...
2025/01/11 00:24:16 | INFO | Resource name [jbigi-windows-coreibwl_64.dll] was not found
2025/01/11 00:24:16 | INFO | Resource name [jbigi-windows-coreibwl.dll] was not found
2025/01/11 00:24:16 | INFO | Native CPUID library jcpuid-x86-windows.dll loaded from resource
2025/01/11 00:24:16 | INFO | Native BigInteger library jbigi-windows-coreihwl_64.dll loaded from resource
2025/01/11 00:24:16 | INFO | Loaded library: jar:file:/C:/Program%20Files/i2p/lib/jbigi.jar!/jbigi-windows-coreihwl_64.dll
********************************************************************************
********************************************************************************
* This is a Java Service Wrapper failover log file.
*  Was unable to write to C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\i2p\wrapper.log.

and my router logs are

2025/01/11 00:29:53.221 INFO […eTimer2 5/6] …SystemFacadeImpl: Network reconnected

• 2025/01/11 00:29:45.561 WARN [Timestamper ] …outerTimestamper: Unable to reach any of the NTP servers [0.gb.pool.ntp.org, 1.gb.pool.ntp.org, 2.gb.pool.ntp.org, 0.europe.pool.ntp.org, 1.europe.pool.ntp.org, 2.europe.pool.ntp.org, 0.pool.ntp.org, 1.pool.ntp.org, 2.pool.ntp.org] - network disconnected? Or set time.sntpServerList=myserver1.com,myserver2.com in advanced configuration.

• 2025/01/11 00:29:38.105 WARN […andler 4/12] …dEstablishState2: NTP failure, SSU2 adjusted clock by 72ms source Router gnkpQm

• 2025/01/11 00:29:38.167 WARN […andler 3/12] …dEstablishState2: NTP failure, SSU2 adjusted clock by 68ms source Router holt4t

• 2025/01/11 00:29:37.982 ERROR […eTimer2 1/6] …SystemFacadeImpl: Network disconnected

• 2025/01/11 00:29:36.655 WARN […obQueue 1/1] …port.UPnPManager: UPnP start failed - no network connection?

I'm running the I2PSnark java app by command line on Android. It works, the page loads and I've been able to download torrents. But everytime the app is started it forces my main browser to open to its main page. How do I stop this behavior?

Hi there, a few weeks ago I tried using I2P in Firefox, I downloaded only the Easy-Install bundle since the page said that bundle already contained the Firefox profile and that i don't need to download the one that come in a java package. However, after installing clicking open the "Browse I2P" icon on the desktop I get 2 notifications saying the same thing:
LoadClientAppsJob (notification title)
Error starting up the client class net.i2p.jetty.JettyStart (notification description)
Then I get 2 icons in the system tray each with different options.
One on the left has the options:
- Start I2P
- Enable notifications (greyed out)
- Disable notifications
- Launch I2P Browser (Safe Mode)
- Launch I2P Browser (Flexible Mode)

The one on the right has these options:
- Network: OK
- Launch I2P Browser
- Configure I2P System Tray
- Stop I2P
- Stop I2P Immediately

The only options that work in opening the I2P browser are the ones on the left, but doesn't matter which one I select, when the browser opens I get this:

Nothing ever happens from here.

I hope that you can help me please, thanks for reading. Have a good day!

Soo I recently learned about i2p and though it seems awesome I seem to be too dull to wrap my head around it. Anyhow I still want to give it a try!

After a couple of tutorials I wondered, if the i2p needs a lot of hours runtime to build up the tunnels and well… contribute to the network… wouldn’t it make more sense to NOT install it on the pc you have but rather on say a Raspberry Pi that runs 24/7 and then route the traffic of your pc‘s through that Pi?

As I said: rookie question. I don’t even know if that all made sense but it was something I couldn’t get out of my head so I appreciate every kind of thought regarding this topic.

i2pd and I2P project is one of the greatest and most outstanding projects ever created in the field of privacy and security. It is much better and far more secure than Tor.

However, the Tor project is promoted much more widely. Why don't the creators of I2P promote it more so that people can learn Concerning this amazing project and help the I2P community grow?

Do they exist? Is running an I2P node seen in the same vane as running a Tor exit node?

Not particularly comfortable with opening ports up to my Home firewall, but at the same time don't want to break any T&C's that my usual VPS providers may have (Digital Ocean and Vultr), so would rather do it somewhere else or at the very least port forward a VPN.

My OS MacOS 13.7.2 Ventura

My i2p router 2.7.0-0 Status: Network: Firewalled

My firefox 133

I use document from site and use http proxy (see screens)

HSM: Client ready, listening on 127.0.0.1:4444

What am I doing wrong ?

On link you can see other screens: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1q6BSH-O4olIKJSfhWjTQyqLnR5jA94mz?usp=sharing

I resolve this problem - use Mulvand browser. Stock firefox doesnt work? I dont know why.

https://preview.redd.it/ooq8pkq4d7ae1.png?width=1450&format=png&auto=webp&s=d0a2e45827f3acfb19db61a4c0e58d25b4351d3f

I had to clean I2p (3 versions) out of the computer I use for that. There was i2p+ in conflict with i2p and shortcuts to different versions, 2 or 3 tray icons, old tray icon versions running in the background from these registry startup entries. There is no uninstall so I had to remove the startup from registry for both of them as they persisted past reboot and the configuration page was not working. Most newer brosers just use system proxy so you have to take down reguler internet browsing to get i2p access to work. So getting a startup for firefox to access it was a great idea. Firefox itself is a nagware about updates, I avoid using it. Using diagnostic tools I saw i2p was connecting to I2p with javaw in one instance, but there was no response on the local admin page nor any i2p network pages. I tried updating by restarting the router but something has changed in the su3 files - they are no longer zip files I saw somewhere java and the i2p library will decompres them but I have not seen that work yet. I liked the firefox method of enabling a proxy just for that instance of browser without changing the system proxy but firefox is a pest with constant begging to update. And firefox update was unable to update if you click update since the proxy does not allow it. I used to open .su3 as a zip file then that got changed to some javaw command to open that I spotted in some web queries, that broke a lot of things. It has always been hard to contact anyone on I2p usually there is no response. I have had luck with the postman tracker but not others, If i2p had a proper installer it would have an uninstaller, it would run out of program files or downloads(portable versions) Old or different versions have to be manually removed. They leave trash in the registry starting that way. No option to disable starting automatically This javaw version 2.6.1 lost the ability to display on the browser. There is more than one tray icon of two versions. It has been inconsistant what folder gets used for data, its been in programdata, appdata, and user\appdata. It is hard to tell if a download torrent is complete or not, since it allocates the file but if the torrents web page is down you can't see the status. Or you cant see this status unless you use the version of I2p that it was downloaded with. I like a lot of the content on i2p and will keep using it but all these versions and issues are making it difficult. I'm using windows 10 for this instance of I2p.

How to contact Mods on IRC?

This is the message I get whenever I click on a link within reg.i2p and I don’t know what is going on! Some links on notbob.i2p are able to load up however for some reason I am not able anything else without getting this error. I think maybe I might be getting firewalled so I was wondering if anyone can help me find out where to access i2pd.config because I can’t find it? So that I can set a port and forward it. Or if someone can help me to enable uPnP that would be great too! Anything helps, thanks!

I have compiled a list of currently working I2P torrent trackers.
Please let me know if I missed any
I'll update this list as trackers come online or go offline.

https://gist.github.com/Frigyes06/77da4d17f921387d6e9a1e20aec80fea

So yesterday my I2p+ router worked totally fine, but when i tried to start it today, it was just stuck in Testing and then couldnt connect to any peers. It showed something that i was banned from the other peers until next restart. My console just spammed the this:

https://preview.redd.it/fczfxzf3lu2e1.png?width=1093&format=png&auto=webp&s=e2da1996632bd4bae03ec6b4117b94e4cdae4d94

Thanks in beforehand for ur help guys!

Hello, i just installed i2p after seeing some video from Mental Outlaw and i wanted to try to torrent with i2p but i2p snark shows this. Does anyone now how to fix that and give me an instruction on how i can fix it?

https://preview.redd.it/hg68odpktm2e1.png?width=1628&format=png&auto=webp&s=1d765545d5f2659358c9650c1d456bc15f974ae7

Before you call me a bot. Just stop and think for a second. Beep boo boop. No but really. I'm wondering if it's worth it for me to use i2p. What are some good communities on i2P and is there sequential torrenting sites with a clean interface?

Hi, using I2P With ports forwarded and Network Status OK.

It came to my notice that I am sharing to the network speeds about 500KB/s+ which is great but when I use bandwidth it uses about just 30KB/s and won't get any better.

hi there, do u know any work youtube forks like http://zzlsbhhfvwg3oh36tcvx4r7n6jrw7zibvyvfxqlodcwn3mfrvzuq.b32.i2p/ or tube.i2p ?

I have tried installing both I2Pd from home-brew and as a DMG file and following the instructions to build it.

First I started with the DMG file, after I would run the I2Pd for the first time there was loads of warnings in the terminal it worked as Network Status Firewalled but it was slow going max 1-2 KB/s , I ignored the warnings assuming I need to port forward. After completing port forwarding NTCP2 and SSU2 which took many hours to figure out what I had to port forward as it was not anywhere being explained what it was needed to port forward the network status became OK. Then things started being faster reaching even speeds of 250KB/s but the warnings weren't gone and after I restarted i2pd I realized the NTCP2 SSU2 ports changed.

I went to the config file and set up the ports but nothing was changing and the warnings were all sorts of things and then I realized that the locations that the data are saved on macOS are wrong and this happened with home brew as well.

https://preview.redd.it/teuh6ugxo12e1.png?width=1892&format=png&auto=webp&s=65ed2d48648ed8583bce278b5eaca22c6ccba4b1

After I manually added the conf files and certificates to the Library the warns stopped and the configs applied. Great. However now after a using i2pd after a while the Network Status turns to OK - No Deviators and from that point i2p sites that I try to access load forever and never actually load. then deleted everything and tried brew, same results.

I don't know what, why or how did this happen? But it did and I'm amazed by it.

BiglyBT TOR hits close to 600 KBps consistently.

The reason why I'm posting this here is because I'm amazed and secondly, I do want to know the reason for it, if possible to explain.

I'm also wondering if I2P plug-in helped in this case - to - I don't know provide some sort of a bridge or connection to it.

In any case, nice.

I was chatting over at r/Monero and it seems like people are intetested in i2p for dart more and more, was wondering if anyone else wanted to get involved, if so which version is best to use for multiple platform. looking for a decent place to start :)

I installed the i2pd client off flathub on my Linux machine (Linux mint) I configured Firefox browser the same way I did on my windows machine but I cant access the i2p router console but I can access .i2p websites. Anybody got any ideas on what could be wrong?

hey there

looking for an i2p torrent site to test out the qbittorrent i2p integration

Hi! I'm interested in trying out I2P since it seems pretty cool, but I wanted to know if there are any potential downsides. I read that, some time ago, people were banned from Wikipedia for using I2P, so I'm curious if there are still any risks. Could using it lead to issues like being banned myself from certain websites or other connectivity problems?

I attempted to install the I2P 2.7.0 on my Ubuntu machine running in Virtual Box and received the following error. Ran the java -jar i2pinstall_2.7.0.jar

Command line arguments:

SEVERE: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Index 70131 out of bounds for length 22674

My Java version is below. Any help is appreciated.

openjdk version "21.0.5" 2024-10-15

OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 21.0.5+11-Ubuntu-1ubuntu124.04

OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 21.0.5+11-Ubuntu-1ubuntu124.04, mixed mode, sharing)

How can I know if address like: htw4pvk2k32qfotsooljdfyz5cblp7jg3a75adtfnqfbb7c23y7q.b32.i2p is new or old type? In tor its easy because old ones are not supported and they are significantly shorter.

i2pd creates new ones or old ones if you define a new tunnel?

Hello, r/i2p community!

I was hoping someone might be able to help me with an issue I’m facing. I’m trying to establish a remote connection to my server, which is running I2P+, so I can access the service from my main PC without needing to set up the tunnel connection every time.

Currently, I can only connect via an SSH tunnel, which works, but I’d prefer to have it listening on my entire network so I can access it whenever I need. I’ve tried a few solutions, but unfortunately, nothing has worked so far.

If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, I’d greatly appreciate it!

Thank you very much in advance!

https://preview.redd.it/5co4vpzy9xzd1.png?width=1599&format=png&auto=webp&s=3311b0d05b4ef5787926f201d8559f9223aec876

Hi i hope someone here can help me.

i have an i2p router running on my vm and i connect with a ssh tunnel.

at the beginning i can do everything but after 20 minutes i can't connect to some websites. only when i restart the router it works again

do i have to set or change anything ?

thanks in advance 😊