> And NFS, well, it's NFS. I don't love it, but I've used NFS exports from a > 14.k modem... So... maybe > he is having internet issues, router issues, firewall issues, compilation > issues... but OpenVPN and > NFS, given a relatively good network environment, work more than OK.
I would still use tcp rather than UDP for NFS if I was going to mount it over a slow network. I did some benchmarks for my wireless and wired network and TCP clearly beats UDP on files over 1MB. I know the wireless limitations have something to do with it as well, but it's my $0.02.