People often assign the blame to a slow network within their building.
Problems with the building network may be the cause, but its typically more likely that the source of the symptoms lies somewhere else. Expanding the capacity of the building's network in these cases will not help. I'll also discuss a few of the newer network applications that are going to drive the need for higher-speed networks and the network technology that is most likely to be used to meet the increased capacity requirements. The data carrying capacity or bandwidth of a network link is usually rated in terms of the number of bits of information the network can transport in each second. Modern telephone modems usually operate at 28.8 kbps or 33.6 kbps.