Hi,
This is very strange, as I'm getting 11 MB/s from Germany even to our Los Angeles datacenter. Are you sure your local connection is not affecting the speeds? Would you have any interest in trying one of our other locations, in the hope that your local ISP will be better connected to it? Just let me know!
Thanks,
Doing a wget does not consider local ips and I have tried with several proxies.
I believe when the server is doing backups or some type of heavy disk access. To me it points to slow drives. Thee are times I will sit and wait for a file to load and others when it pops right up.