Mount NFS File System Over a Slow and Busy Network

Traffic between my home and office data center encrypted using VPN but sometime my ISP get little slow or network becomes busy. I'm using Fedora Core Linux desktop system and my system freezes for a few minutes. What optimization options should be used when mounting an exported NFS share over a slow and busy network?

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