Upload & Download - definition

To a server or net site and Download is receiving data weather it be e-mails or complete programs.

Col

There's also an intuitive definition floating around. An upload sends data to the larger, more central, or more controlling computer of the pair, such as a mainframe, vendor, process controller, server, etc. A download does just the opposite, sending data to a desktop, consumer, unattended device, etc.

That you upload to the server but the server see it as a download. The same applies to the Net so I suppose it all depends on which end you are as to what is happening. But the person who starts off the process is either "Uploading" when moving data to another storage device some where else and "Downloading" when they move the data to the workstation that they are working on.

Confusing enough?

Col