Disabling Delta Compression on a fetch

We run an internal gitorious server with many repos on it. Due to legacy issues, some of the repos are rather bloated with large binaries. When several changes happen and are pushed to the gitorious repo and then are later pulled back (fetch and pull) to other clones, we get a broken connection while the gitorious side is generating Delta compression. 

All of the git communication happens on 1 subnet all connected by a single gigabit switch. As I see it, the Delta Compression is actually a performance degradation in our environment.

The solution I've come up with is to set pack.window=0 in /etc/gitconfig on the gitorious server. 

I realize our need is uncommon. I realize by doing this, I am trading increased bandwidth in exchange for starting the send sooner. When I read the documentation for pack.window, it seems more a side effect than the original intent that this variable disables Delta Compression when set to 0.

My question is: Are there are any unintended consequences of this approach anyone can think of? 

Thanks, Todd Rinaldo