Why do service providers distinguish between upstream and downstream communication?

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A typical residential subscriber receives much more information than the subscriber
transmits and Internet access technologies are designed to transfer more data in one direction than
the other. The networking industry uses the term downstream to refer to data traveling from an ISP
to a subscriber, and upstream to refer to data traveling from a subscriber to an ISP.

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