  The interplay between the finite volume and finite lattice spacing is
investigated using lattice QCD simulations to compute the Landau gauge gluon
propagator. Comparing several ensembles with different lattice spacings and
physical volumes, we conclude that the dominant effects, in the infrared
region, are associated with the use of a finite lattice spacing. The
simulations show that decreasing the lattice spacing, while keeping the same
physical volume, leads to an enhancement of the infrared gluon propagator. In
this sense, the data from $\beta=5.7$ simulations, which uses an $a \approx
0.18$ fm, provides a lower bound for the infinite volume propagator.
