@Anonymous,
I am working from how right now as well. Our setup is as follows.
When in the office, we all connect to our Vault server through a wireless network. When out of the office we connect to Vault through a VPN. My setup is a little wonky right now because I am using a Mac and running Inventor through a Parallels Virtual Machine. In any event, those of us who have Macs use Tunnelblick to make the VPN connection. When working remotely we route all of our traffic through the VPN; this is the only way this setup works.
My home network is fast enough and/or my file sizes are small enough that I have not had any issues with this setup. Our assemblies are typically in the "hundreds of parts" range. There have been times where I had just let it sit for awhile to check something in (overnight once!), but the files did eventually check in properly. One note: when working from home I never delete my working copies when checking stuff in; this ensures that I also have a local copy in case something goes poorly with the check-in process.
Solely saving the files on a physical drive would be a solution if my connection was dodgy, but this makes me nervous; if the drive were to get lost/broken all of the work would be lost as well.
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