Yes, having local access will give you more performance than remote. If the IT team is setting up a VPN, I’d say let them go for it, there’s not a reason not to. For opening and working on an AE project, it will depend on what is in the project/how big it is/connection speed at home & the office.
Smaller AE projects will buffer in RAM and could… Read more

It’s far from conclusive, but the Aquantia NICs are what concern me. We (ProMAX) have had a ton of trouble with those. It’s the same hardware chip that Bob mentioned in the Sonnet Solo and not to expect beyond 400MB/s. We have seen WILD swings in performance on the Aquantia NICs (like 500MB/s on NIC “A” and 150MB/s on NIC “B” with all other… Read more