Whats upload speed for?

9761 · 20 Feb 2006 at 18:33

Hi,

Just wanted to know what its for?

I know what download speed is for but im not sure on upload speed.
If someone could fill me in on it please?

cheers

hendrix · 20 Feb 2006 at 18:39

Uploading stuff

Like if you wanted to upload a photo to a website of some sort. How fast the file uploads depends on your upload speed.

Andre · 20 Feb 2006 at 18:43

When you download something (e.g. view a website) you need to first request the information (i.e. Upload the address) then acknowledge the receipt of the page/file. All this is part of your upload allowance/speed.

This would be most peoples use for upload, but if you serve your own website/ftp server, or use P2P, then the speed with which you can send stuff to other people is limited by your upload speed

HTH

André

9761 · 20 Feb 2006 at 19:58

I always thought it was to do about how fast web pages loaded.

benjo plz. · 20 Feb 2006 at 19:59

No, thats more to do with download speed.

9761 · 20 Feb 2006 at 22:27

hmmm ok thanks.

Hyper · 20 Feb 2006 at 22:45

For example if you are downloading through torrents you want as good of a upload speed as possible as a lot of site now work on a upload to download ratio.