slow network speed

I'm seeing 7.03 MB/s from Tokyo to a Newark Linode.

$ wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.tokyo.linode.com/100MB-tokyo.bin
--2013-06-29 08:28:34--  http://speedtest.tokyo.linode.com/100MB-tokyo.bin
Resolving speedtest.tokyo.linode.com... 2400:8900::4b, 106.187.96.148
Connecting to speedtest.tokyo.linode.com|2400:8900::4b|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[=======================================================================================================================================>] 104,857,600 8.91M/s   in 14s     

2013-06-29 08:28:48 (7.03 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

thanks and I am totally confused by the slow fact, and linode failed to figure out too.

I'm also on Fremont and noticed very slow (20-50 kb/s) when doing Ubuntu updates the last week or so. I don't know if it is Linode or the Ubuntu servers.

I got 7.52 MB/s on your Tokyo test.

@hsie:

thanks and I am totally confused by the slow fact, and linode failed to figure out too.

Are you saying you filed a Support Ticket with Linode?