>>>>In English, it is pretty much straight forward, an upload is an upload and a download is a download. In French, there is the word "Téléchargement". But, it can be used in both sides. What would be the proper terminology in French for Upload and Download?
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>>>I don't see the "upload" and "download" so straight forward in English either. For example, I have a Pocket PC application that works with VFP application. The two programs communicate via XML files send back and forth. But I never know if when sending the XML from PC to Pocket PC I should refer to it as download or upload; and the other way around. I like the answer from Michel Levy; "transfer" with the explicit description of from or to sounds very good in English too.
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>>I thought that upload is away from you and download is towards you
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>>But you can always use descargar and subir ;-)
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>Estoy de acuerdo contigo; descargar (o bajar) y subir es mucho más claro :)

Come to think of it - the English words are as clear as the Spanish

Download = bajar (as in Bajar las escaleras)
Upload = subir (as in Subir las escaleras)