I believe I thoroughly despise Dreamweaver over FTP. It has literally stolen a good hour of my time today. Using Dreamweaver over FTP has probably stolen more than a week of my time since I started using the product.
To be fair, it helps if you are connecting to a decent server. For some reason the servers at Pacific are always painfully slow, which is something I have pointed out to the IT guys. Part of the problem could be related to heavy student use during peak hours. (What else is there to do on a Monday night?) Though, there has to be something else that is causing the problem—the hosting service I use for contract work and my personal site is in New Jersey and I get better performance out of it.
If ULE is faster than your work servers, you have a real problem, as ULE often frustrates me with how slow it is compared to others…