Magnet link generator

Re:Magnet link generator by anarcat on Saturday February 23, 2019 @02:02PM (#19234918)

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.

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Re:Magnet link generator by jondumbau on Saturday February 23, 2019 @09:23PM (#19236761)

The 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.

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Re:Magnet link generator by toomuchtodo on Saturday February 23, 2019 @02:14PM (#19234979)

You might consider syncthing [1] for a private file sharing solution between friends.

[1] https://syncthing.net/

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Re:Magnet link generator by AnaniasAnanas on Saturday February 23, 2019 @02:48PM (#19235129)

Wouldn't the issue be solved if you added a tracker to it?

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Re:Magnet link generator by anarcat on Monday February 25, 2019 @10:17AM (#19246180)

yes 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?

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Re:Magnet link generator by qwerty456127 on Saturday February 23, 2019 @04:48PM (#19235668)

You could also try OnionShare

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