>That's because I wrote about QUIC & UDP in my previous post yesterday.

Ok

>My writing is tangential as it is, so I try to keep the layers separate in different analyses.

I must admit I am still having a hard time following you.

>Why they offer it (for Windows system files), is beyond me.

Why should a household or office download windows update files more than once? Seems like a great idea.

>Do they work faster than the regular web? Well, torrents can download faster.

IPFS in my limited experience is slow but reliable. Torrents are slow in peer discovery but fast after that.

>I guess the files are encrypted enough that there is a checksum that can determine if the files are not tampered?

Digital signature also.