file transfer speed in a network

[Bipin]

hai all,
i am working in a network having morethan 200 windows XP sysetm,our
network uses CISCO switch and router. we have a remote site which
connected trhough 4MBps MAN conectivity through one off services
provides frame relay.We need to connect our remote site alltime coz,
our file servers are in remote site.

some time we feel our network soo slow , even it took morethan 2 min to
open a 1 mb .doc file .

1,How can i rectify this issue
2,How can i check file transering speed ( any software can use for
this??)
3.How it possible to check how many bandwidth is used by each off
computers

i hertlly requesting all to help me for solving this problem .

 

[Kurt]

Well, just doing the math, 4 Megabits is 1/25 the speed of a 100 megabit
connection. If most of the clients are at the local site, move the file
server. Having yout largest group of users using the slowest connection
doesn't make sense.

....kurt