At least for Ubuntu and popular distros like mint you get super high speeds on torrent maybe because you have a peer in the same region.

Afaik Windows is also using this to install updates where it shares the download with others in the region (1) using p2p (though i may be wrong since i don't use Windows anymore)

(1) https://www.itproportal.com/amp/news/how-to-stop-windows-10-...