If you find cygwin annoying and/or slow, try mingw. If you grab the official git windows client you get a mini-install with openssh which works fine :) I use

If you find cygwin annoying and/or slow, try mingw. If you grab the official git windows client you get a mini-install with openssh which works fine :) I use putty myself, and if I'm only allowed to use a web browser, I'll just log into chrome and use the ssh client chrome extension (which seems to be still in beta a year later)