What is an upload as compared to a download?

Question

Thinking of switching to broadband and was told that uploads also count towards usage as well as downloads

Answer 1

To upload is to send a file... to download is to receive a file.

Answer 2

i have been ask this question from friends a lot,

i tell you what i tell them: Remenber this is a little bit childlish

think of of a boxing Game

you verus me

When i PUNCH you, i upload my Hits to you
When you Recived my Punch, you are Download my hit to you and feel pain.

then you Punch me, so You upload your hits to me
I recived your Punchc, so i'm downloading your hit to me.

HEHEHHEHEH simply

yes Upload makes a impact,
let say your senting this file to friend.
and you are also downloading a program(GAMEFILE which is 3GB).
Think of a maillbox where half is to come in and half of is go out
(1mb download / 500kb upload)
when you recivied a the small downlaod(like 100kb out of 3GB) your computer has sent back a informtion to the site saying that you got this and and this already.
so basically every 100kb you get you will sent 2kb out back to that server
now:
if you sent a file(video) at the same time you download this file(game)

the chance of the 2kb(of teh game download) senting out is longer because it's waiting for a chance to get sent out back ot the site while you are senting this file(video) to your friend :).

if you aren't uploading and mainly using for websurfering watching movies, u don't need high upload. upload images and clp of video can be done with a small upload rates at 256k is good enough. but you have to higher download speed and less on your monthly bill.

if you llike upload videso a lot and download a lot, then you need to think of the box and buy those plans where 8MBdown/1MBup WOWOOOWW ehhehe. there even 5mbdown /3mb up, only usefully for business btw and others.

hopfully this helps.

Answer 3

Upload is when you are putting content that is on your PC to the web. In other words, everytime you send something that's originally stored on your PC to any website or web, that's considered an upload.

As one contributor mentioned, it can also include pictures uploading for the profile in Yahoo since the picture is physically stored in your PC and you need to UPLOAD that picture to Yahoo to be used for profile. Same with email attachements, when you have pictures or word docs or excel files in your PC and you need to send those to someone, you need to upload to the mail server before they are sent to your friend.

In many cases, broadband (DSL, CABLE) have slower or limiting upload speeds than download speeds. In other words, your broadband company may put a limit on how fast you can send stuff to the web but generally will allow you to have a lot faster download speed. In most cases, if you try sending/uploading an MP3 file to a friend, you will notice that it takes a lot longer to send it to a friend than it is to download that same exact sized file from a website.

It can get a bit complicated but I think they try to prevent home users from being able to setup a business server to host websites.

Answer 4

Quite literally it is the reverse of a download. You upload a file to another location from your computer. That location can be in an email, to a publishing type site, or a web site. If you post a picture on a profile you have 'uploaded' something.

Answer 5

aside from uploading out and downloading in the speeds are different too downloading being usually faster

Answer 6

download: you receive a file
upload: you send a file

this ISP apparently has monthly limits (transfer of X amount of data) and says both sending and receiving count towards that limit. Doesn't sound like a good ISP; I'd recommend one that has a limitless or flat fee.

Answer 7

upload means you are copying ur files on internet
and downloading means u are taking files , softwares from internet

Answer 8

Basically, when one ''uploads'' something, he's sharing it, or putting it somewhere else.

When one ''downloads'' something, he's taking it from someone else and putting it on his computer.

:)