To whom it may concern, let it be known that running subversion on a windows server is a really bad idea. If you really, really must, don’t run an older version.
At work, some of out software development is outsourced to India where they run an SVN server that developers in our office regularly access. Unfortunately, there are all manner of problems with Internet transit in India through VSNL who gets pretty much all their transit to the US through Teleglobe. Sadly, it seems they have all kinds of routing and actual delivery issues, so we’ve had to use a really tiny MTU to see to anything getting through it seems. One quirk a coworker and I both noticed on our Linux boxes is that running deltas on files seems to get progressively worse the further and further our client versions were from the server. So if you’re using SVN 1.1.1 on a Windows server, be sure and use an SVN client under 1.3.2 to work more or less reliably over a problematic network.