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Am I the only disturbed by the amount of times the article used the word torrent for huge amount of traffic?
by gmuslera 4y ago
Am I the only disturbed by the amount of times the article used the word torrent for huge amount of traffic?
- lucb1e 4y agoTrips me up as well, perhaps because I'm a non-native speaker. The mention of torrent in a networking-related context will immediately make me think of the bittorrent protocol.
- pixl97 4y agoIn the days before we dealt with bufferbloat well using torrents was a great way to DOS one's self, especially if you had async internet service with a much slower upload or a router with terrible NAT that overflowed when a lot of IPs were in use. A torrent torrent would flood your equipment.