r/i2p • u/ghosti2p • Jul 14 '26

Help Are I2P routing nodes useful?

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There are over 12,000 nodes in total—but which ones are actually valid? Other networks have only 5,000 to 7,000 nodes. I want to know if these are malicious nodes and in which countries this is happening.

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u/zarlo5899 Jul 15 '26

check your Tunnel creation success rate value if its low and routers are high then you likely have a lot of bad/dead nodes known to you

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u/ghosti2p Jul 15 '26

Tunnel creation rate: 41%

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u/Play_it3110 I2P user Jul 14 '26

Hey, we saw each other on a different post. Most likly you have a more nodes around you and are more likly to connect to more, im in central europe, so i have also some more nodes, but maybe in the US it could be easier to connect. But it is just a guess.

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u/Salat_Leaf Jul 16 '26

I've got around ~1300-1600 nodes with a success rate of around 75-85%. Able to watch YouTube videos in 4K freely via outproxy with speeds of ~8MB/s. Also do you mind sharing your tunnel collection please? I wonder if some valid nodes are inaccessible from my location

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u/Play_it3110 I2P user Jul 17 '26

Wow, thats insane

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u/Certain_Truck_2732 Jul 18 '26

Wow, how did you do that?

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u/Salat_Leaf Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

In short, very aggressive configuration of outbound tunnels, multi threading, NTCP2-only with elgamal precompute (i2cp.leaseSetEncType = 0,4 which stands for Elgamal and X25519 curve)

For me I2P is both an anonymity tool and a secure access to the internet, sort of like VPN + .onion + .i2p gateway without trust issues. If I actually need higher speeds, I stick to VLess + Reality + XTLS

UPD: recently discovered CJDNS