Use http protocol to checkout using SVN

Checking out the source of openoffice.org through Seneca network, I realized that if svn's protocol is used for "checkout" it takes forever to download the source. But if http is used instead, in less than an hour the source is checked out.

Most likely, it is the ITT's routing rules that causes this...

so, use:
svn co http://svn.services.openoffice.org/ooo/ whatever
instead of
svn co svn://svn.services.openoffice.org/ooo/whatever

OOo Checkout time at CDOT

Here is the checkout time for Openoffice.org source code:

Log:
start time: Wed Jan 21 11:03:22 EST 2009
svn co http://svn.services.openoffice.org/ooo/tags/DEV300_m39
end time: Wed Jan 21 11:35:41 EST 2009

Around 32 minutes.