Does background apps affect the speed of file transfers?

[Fidelia]

I have observed that sometimes, transfer of files between devices run slower and some other time, they run faster.

Seems background apps running on a device affect the speed of file transfers. Is that really true?

 

[Kross]

Background apps like email syncing always affects the processing power of a device while running other tasks. It would definitely affect file transfers.

 

[eLdavis]

Yes apps running in the background can greatly affect or influence how fast files are transferred or received.