Download

[Fact 1]: In computer networks, to download means to receive data to a local system from a remote system, or to initiate such a data transfer.

[Fact 2]: For example:

The user remotely accesses a file hosting service at MyRemoteHost.

The user finds a public file at PublicRemoteHost and wants to keep a copy in their MyRemoteHost.

To have it done they "remote upload" the file from PublicRemoteHost to MyRemoteHost.

None of the hosts are located on the user's the local network.Without remote uploading functionality, the user would be required to download the file first to their local host and then re-upload it to the remote file hosting server.Where the connection to the remote computers is via a dialup connection, the transfer time required to download locally and then re-upload could increase from seconds, to hours or days.

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[Fact 3]: A download can mean either any file that is offered for downloading or that has been downloaded, or the process of receiving such a file.The inverse operation, uploading, can refer to the sending of data from a local system to a remote system such as a server or another client with the intent that the remote system should store a copy of the data being transferred, or the initiation of such a process.The words first came into popular usage among computer users with the increased popularity of Bulletin Board Systems , facilitated by the widespread distribution and implementation of dial-up access the in the 1970s.When there is a transfer of data from a remote system to another remote system, the process is called "remote uploading".

[Fact 4]: Examples of a remote system from which a download might be performed include a webserver, FTP server, email server, or other similar systems.

[Fact 5]: This is used by some online file hosting services.Remote uploading is also used in situations where the computers that need to share data are located on a distant high speed local area network, and the remote control is being performed using a comparatively slow dialup modem connection.