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When I was trying to bootstrap dpm's codebase, I wanted to use webtorrents as a way to download files as this would be very decentralized. I couldn't even get it to download a single mb from various different servers. Same with IPFS, simply did not work.
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fiatjaf 2y ago

Did you use trackers?

Was that in NodeJS? You probably just couldn't connect to the other node that had the file. No one promised automatic holepunching.

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jack (n/acc) 2y ago

Yes. I tried uploading the file to a remote tracking service and my local qbittorrent couldn't find anything. I tried doing it on the same local network it node seeding it, qbittorrent seeding it instead, etc etc. would not work.

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SMS 2y ago

Are they keeping you isolated, Jack?

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StephanGuy 2y ago

torrents definitely work with just 2 peers, it would just be your situation, torrent apps need port forwarding with nat usually, also firewalls on the machines, routers stop things

i used webtorrent with iris.to and it worked ok

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StephanGuy 2y ago

hypercore had really good holepunching which not surprisingly became holepunch.to

ipfs had poor holepunching but a year or so ago libp2p used by ipfs improved it quite a lot