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Trips 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 bitt

• pixl97 4y ago
  In 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.