I know This question might have been asked many times, but i’d appreciate the answer in 2021 too. Basically, I use ipfs-desktop on mac. Then , I add it as ipfs add filename.txt Then i check it on myowngateway.com/ipfs/cid and also on ipfs.io/ipfs/cid As it turns out, myowngateway.com is so slow …

You can connect to your gateway node manually. Use ipfs swarm connect /p2p/<node_id> [image] ipfs/js-ipfs IPFS implementation in JavaScript. Contribute to ipfs/js-ipfs development by creating an account on GitHub.

@FledgeXu Thanks for your answer… One more thing I might ask… So I started the node on computerA. it could be started from the package you linked or any other daemons. Now, on computerB, I have cid1 which i need to fetch. How do I get it from computerA ? I couldn’t see this example in the linked…

You don’t need to think something like “I need to fetch data from computer A “. In IPFS, data stores in which computer doesn’t matter and you just need think “I want to this file in IPFS and I don’t care where the data store.”

@FledgeXu I agree, but I don’t want computerB to start a node. This is because computerB is a front-end app running in browser. So i need to make a call and get the file somehow. Since gateways are too slow, I am looking for the alternatives. Couldn’t find anything in js-ipfs package. Any ideas …

I think there is not a way can offer quick fetch files neither gateway or IPFS-node in browser. Gateway node will cache the file, so after first loading the latter fetch should be quick.

@FledgeXu I couldn’t quite understand what you said. So you’re saying that it’s impossible without gateway ? if so, why are gateways so slow ?

Sorry I’m not native English speaker. I mean if you want the “fast first loading”. The gateway and In browser IPFS node are both not suited for you. Because they both need time to search the file in DHT network. However, if you use gateway, when first user visits a file from the gateway, that gat…

@FledgeXu Clear, but gateways sometimes are so slow. ipfs and my own gateway can’t even return the file that I submitted to ipfs 4 hours ago… So, what’s the workaround ?

[image] novaknole: ipfs and my own gateway can’t even return the file that I submitted to ipfs 4 hours ago… Did you just close your local node after uploading the file? Other IPFS nodes won’t save your files automatically, unless they get your files. I think the best way to offer quick files…

@FledgeXu [image] FledgeXu: Did you just close your local node after uploading the file? Other IPFS nodes won’t save your files automatically, unless they get your files. Nope. would closing make any different ? I don’t think so. [image] FledgeXu: I think the best way to offer quick fil…

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FledgeXu April 7, 2021, 3:40pm 12

I don’t really know that the use case you are meeting.
Maybe you meet the a same like this.

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