By 1996, the Internet was becoming popular, and X's performance over narrow, slow links was problematic.

The slowest link in a computer is not the CPU but the speed of the hard drive.

It is, however, useful for simulating slow links between departments showing how the applications will work when deployed to slower sites.

One trivial limitation is the maximum bandwidth of the slowest link in the path.

Ships provided easy, cheap, slow links among the coastal towns within California and on routes leading there.

Worse, over slow links, many such packets can be in transit at the same time, potentially leading to congestion collapse.

-Your Internet connection is the slowest link in your computer.

Remember, however, that the practical speed of any broadband network, no matter what its theoretical speed, is limited by the slowest link on the network.

There can be no question of continuing to allow the slowest link in the chain to set the pace.

Your choices are do nothing or use a slow link to get some kind of access and increase your productivity," he said.