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Tony Hoyle wrote: > If the supplier was in a less developed country (south america perhaps.. > not india as that has a good IT infrastructure nowadays) I could imagine > it... in which case it's kind of understandable, but then you'd be > dealing with dialup speeds anyway, and a local server isn't going to > gain you a lot since even the synchronisation is going to be slow. I don't see it that way. 50 kb/s transfers more than 5 kB/s, which is 18 MB/h. Can be done when nobody is working (8 hours of sleep give you time for 140 MB, which is quite a lot if we're talking sources, and I'm not even counting on compression, which is likely to be more than a factor of 2 for sources), and provides full LAN speed read-only access at other times. Is not fully real-time, but may not have to be. So when you have only slow (dial-up) access to a server is IMO exactly one of the situations where a mirrored repository can make sense. Even with a good infrastructure, people may have a server on a LAN behind an ADSL connection with very poor upload speeds. Getting a decent two-way connection or renting a dedicated server with a good connection in many places costs more than an additional programmer on the team... Gerhard