[bacon_waffle]

So I can't test this as I don't have a Windows machine, but from the screenshot it seems only concerned with bandwidth. For my personal situation, latency is the real killer.

I've got a gigabit fibre connection but am way down South in New Zealand, and interact with a Perforce server that's in California for my day job. When one does an operation in Perforce, like the equivalent of a 'git pull', there seems to be at least a couple round-trips between the client and the server, for each file. There are some tasks take a few seconds for folks in the California office, where for me those are easily several minutes to several dozen minutes. It's convenient when the weather is nice or the fire needs feeding :).

[adrianN]

The joys of using VCS designed for LANs. Clearcase has the same problem.

[repiret]

Years ago I worked somewhere where we had to use Visual Source Safe, on a Mac (OS9), over a sub-1MBit DSL. Doing anything would take hours to days.