Everyone making use of the internet will download something. Even if you’re not going after songs, videos, or some other sort of media to burn to disc, each time you visit a website technically counts as a download. With the advent of broadband the speed of downloading has grown quite fast. That increase, however, has been slightly less significant when it comes to uploading.
What’s an upload, you ask? Well, it’s the exact opposite of a download. Anything you send to the web for display such as pictures or video has to be uploaded to a web server somewhere in the world. If you’ve done this before then you know that sometimes the process takes quite a bit longer than downloading.
Internet service providers (ISP) have a preset speed for uploads and downloads. There are typically several tiers of service they offer in which that speed varies. ATT, for example, offers a small business package with an “up to” 6.0mbps (megabits per second) downstream and an “up to” 412kbps (1 megabit = 1024 kb) upstream. The level of difference between the two is quite drastic and I believe many get so excited at the thought of quick downloads that they fail to notice the upload speed is written in kilobits. One assumes the speed difference is due to uploading being much more taxing on them than downloading.
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