What Does Uploading Mean?
Uploading is a computer-related term that describes a user transmitting digital data from one computer system to another computer system. Typically, uploading involves a user sending data from a personal computer through an Internet connection to a mainframe or a network, usually with permission from the receiving system.
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Downloading
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Uploading is the opposite of downloading, which is when data is sent from one computer to another. Downloading typically involves files being transmitted from a larger computer system, such as an Internet server, to a personal computer.
Permissions
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In order to upload data from a PC to another computer system, the user typically must have permission to send the data. This means that the user wishing to send data must have a user name and password to begin a computer session.
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Considerations
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In general, most computer users do more downloading than uploading. This is because most data are available on Internet servers.
Bandwidth
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Users can upload and download at the same time through the same Internet connection. However, this can mean slower data transfer speeds.
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