[sten]

(faster than Redmond because the Redmond team doesn’t use a proxy and they have to go hundreds of miles over the internet to the Azure data center)”

what does hundreds of miles of internet have to do with the speed of the service??

my client has a main campus in LA and a dedicated 'cloud' computing center in Las Vegas. Roughly 300 miles between.

Know what the network time between the two is?

4 milliseconds. ROUND TRIP.

please tell me again how a few hundred miles of network is radically slowing down your service... and how it's not your crappy service

[no-s]

what does hundreds of miles of internet have to do with the speed of the service??

They probably cant handle patches or incorporate some other brain-dead metaphor that makes using git in a distributed way impossible. Thus leaching efficiency. JMHO....