I forgot to mention, I am an embedded developer located in Iran. The filtering I am talking about is by the government. All ISP's get their bandwith from centrally allocated trunks. This allows control. I know that ssh packets get dropped for extended periods frequently. We have an Ubuntu virtual server outside of Iran which we use as a proxy and connect to it via 'ssh' sox provxy ( -D 8090 ). Many times some sort of script or intelligence is operation which severely throttles the connection as soon as the data rate exceeds certain "benign" levels. All this has been confirmed by the network `gurus` and admin people I work with. This is the best we can tell from what we observe. As mentioned when we execute the simple GIT clone command from our VPS ( located outside Iran ) the command works flawlessly. What I would be interested in is to somehow make git avoid using transport over ssh. The government censors are interested only in blocking people accessing illicit sites via S.O.X-5 or VPN. To them anything over SSH is suspicious. If we could somehow update using a plain transport method, they couldn't care less about source code being sent to us. Regards Reza -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html