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What do Downstream and Upstream mean?

April 26, 2017Downstream mean upstream

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What do Downstream and Upstream mean?

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Downstream’ is data flow from the Internet to your computer (data you receive), while ‘upstream’ is the data flow from your computer to the Internet (data you send). A typical user requires much higher bandwidth downstream (to download web pages or files from the Internet) than upstream. But if you are transferring large files from your computer to another location or to the Internet, then you may need higher upstream bandwidth than the typical user. EMBARQ offers products with the following downstream and upstream speeds: • 256k downstream/128k upstream • Up to 1.5M downstream/384k upstream • Up to 3.0M downstream/512k upstream • Up to 5.0M downstream/640k upstream.