garyharan/hbase-stargate — comment on commit 664cd40f1670808e94e1ba5a08a5b450ece6076e
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By greglu:

It's a configuration parameter so change it in the config file instead. Your assumptions that some networks are slow is only based on your development environment. In a "production" environment, you'd never have your Ruby server connecting through VPN to the HBase REST server. Changing the default of the underlying client to accommodate this doesn't make sense.