[H] Slow Network Transfers

[Steve Tomporowski]

Ok, I need some advice from people I trust.  The company I work for had 
transitioned from in-house IT to Bell Technologies, so we obviously 
swimming in 'tickets'.  We have a main data drive on the network, the 
'K' drive and I've had a ticket in for about 8 months now on slow 
transfers.  The symptoms are this:  When transferring a number of files 
from a laptop/desktop, there will be data transfer for about 1 to 2 
seconds, then 20 to 30 seconds of nothing.  Rinse and repeat.  I've also 
noticed that if you transfer a single file, most of the time it will 
transfer 99%, then you have 20 to 30 seconds of waiting until it finishes.

Now to the question.  I've just been told that slow transfers happen 
when there is low disk space.  Obviously we have a lot of users 
accessing the network drive but the slow phenomenon wasn't present some 
time ago and has been persisting for a couple of years now.  Is this 
third-party IT organization correct or blowing smoke.  I have been lied 
to before by them.

Thanks...Steve