from a previous topic i remember looking into another forum members issues and found that there was a linking node that kept failing located in Miami. I think the issues where related to the files in question being stored in Europe and the path the data was taking. I would anticipate that similar files stored in the same location would show a similiar slow down.

What country are the servers in? Perhaps we could find a file mirror or file stored on a server in the same country for comparision.

for example this page has all the vlc file mirrors
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vlc/...2.exe/download

perhaps we could use this for comparison.