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The terms upload and download often create confusion, as their definitions depend on the context. This article is about the computer terms. ...
This article is about the computer terms. ...
Download and upload refer to the transfer of information between computers.
The person/computer sending the information refers to the transfer as an upload, while the person/computer receiving the information refers to it as a download.
These are the definitions used by ISPs. If the customer is sending information, it is an upload; if they are receiving information, it is a download.
Most people use the term download when they are receiving a file, and upload when they are sending a file over the Internet.
In either case, information is transferred both ways to manage the download. This is often the reason people get confused.
The act of transferring a file from one web server to another, while technically a simultaneous download and upload, is often called sideloading. The term web server can mean one of two things: a computer responsible for serving web pages, mostly HTML documents, via the HTTP protocol to clients, mostly web browsers; a software program that is working as a daemon serving web documents. ...
Sideload is a term used in internet culture, similar to upload and download. It is the process of moving data between two web servers. ...
An exception is when talking about data transfers between space vehicles and ground stations; in this case, every transfer from the space vehicle is a download, while every transfer to it is an upload.
As a noun, a download or upload is the information transferred or the act of transferring it. A noun, or noun substantive, is a word or phrase that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance or quality. ...
In surfing the World Wide Web the term downloading is not usually used for simply bringing up a web page, but rather for transferring a larger file and/or directly saving it. In a network, the term downloading is not usually used for copying files from one network device to another even if one computer is acting as a host (see copy.) Graphic representation of the world wide web around Wikipedia The World Wide Web (WWW, or simply Web) is an information space in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are identified by global identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI). ...
A Web page or webpage is a page of the World Wide Web, usually in HTML/XHTML format (the file extensions are typically htm or html) and with hypertext links to enable navigation from one page or section to another. ...
A computer network is a system for communication among two or more computers. ...
The term copy is used in the following contexts: Reproduction or facsimile, as of a rare or precious object; a replica. ...
In a more complicated way, "download" means, when you are surfing the web, usually transferring data from the server of the web site you are viewing, to your own. This can either be a program, game, or music, which is saving it permanently to your hard disk, or it could mean transferring images or text from a web page to your computer and downloading them only to a temporary folder.
Upload basically means the opposite of download. Upload means transferring a file from your computer to a server on the internet. Let's take the example of a web site and that you're using a web host to host your site. When you update your, let's say, home page and want to publish it, you go to the upload client of your web host. Then, in the upload client, you select "Browse" and look in the folder you saved the home page in, and select it. Then you select the "Upload" button and your computer sends your home page to your web host's server.
See also
To upload files to Wikipedia, or for instructions on this, see the Special:Upload page. This page is about the File Transfer Protocol, a computer protocol. ...
A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is any network that does not rely on dedicated servers for communication but instead mostly uses direct connections between clients (peers). ...
A download manager is a computer program designed to download files from the Internet, unlike a web browser, which is mainly intended to browse webpages on the World Wide Web (with file downloading being of secondary importance). ...
To download Wikipedia database, see http://download.wikimedia.org. All Wikipedia text is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License; see Wikipedia:Copyrights for more info. ...
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