Some statistics for reference to help out.
	Transfer Rate looks to be around >> 50-90 Kb/sec << via the us proxy.
	- no noticable difference from the rate over the last 4 months (Ganymede 3.4 M5-RC1) and the 3 months before that 07/12->08/02 (Eclipse 3.3.1.1 /1.5.3)
	I can't speak for subclipse - I stopped using it 9 months ago, I only use the TortoiseSVN 1.4.8 UI client and the subversion 1.4.6 command-line client outside of eclipse, without taking into account concurrent updates by other views....
	Rates:
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	The peak rate is around 50 files per second when creating a new view with small java files ~= 50 Kb/sec.
	The rate slows to around .1 files per second for zips of around .5 MB like the util/jaxb _ones_ == 50 Kb/sec 
	Total duration for a full SVN checkout is 11:22 -> 11:40 == 18 min for 15609 files 99 Mb (reduced by deleting all generated .svn dirs from 201 Mb (32487 files))  ~= 92 Kb/sec 
	The [us] proxy has only had a problem once in the past 60 days for myself and seems fine. 
	thank you
	/michael
  
I too am using the us proxy, but the highest I ever seen it is ~
14Kb/sec.