What's the difference between download speed and transfer rate?

[Corrosive]

What's the difference between download speed and transfer rate? is download speed what you download from sites at, and transfer rate is what you download at with P2P programs? i'm very confused..

 

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This was off-topic so I split it into a new thread. Please make sure not to stray off-topic next time.

 

[Forged]

The diffrence is in the way your flexcompacitor treats the flowing data.

 

[Corrosive]

[SARCASM] Oh thank you, I thought that was it, but I wasn't sure [/SARCASM] I have no idea what you just said, could you put it into nub terms for me?