What determines the speed of transfers between my server and a client computer?

There are a number of links in the chain which determined the overall performance of transfers between computers.

• server speed and the number of hits it is receiving . e.g. if your server has a 2Mbps link to the Internet and four people downloading files simultaneously they will get 500Kbps each.
• Link to the Internet from your server to your Internet service provider
• bandwidth of your Internet service provider to the Internet
• Internet link between the Internet service provider and the remote site e.g. the bandwidth of an international link between countries
• bandwidth of the Internet service provider of the client
• bandwidth of the client to the Internet service provider
• speed of the clients computer in handling the download

The download speed will be determined by the slowest link in the chain – this will be the bottleneck that need to be addressed

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