I don't know much about SVN, but wouldn't it be better to compress the data being send back and forth ? On windows that would be to uncomment the following two lines (and changing the "no" to a "yes"):
in the file "Documents and Settings\ <username> \Application Data\Subversion\servers". Don't know if it will help, but on other servers it cuts the time it takes to do a checkout by app. 50 %
Cheers and a happy New Year! Jens Henrik Hertz (baremig@ziansoft.dk)
In some months svnserve will have SSL support. Then there will be compression available.
Casper