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AmazonAWS speedtest between USA and Europe datacenter

Amazon has introduced a new API for S3 to store data in it’s Europe datacenter ( with higher pricing, of course ). I decided to make a small test to see if the higher price worths the money, and here is the result:
lamnk@lamnk:~> wget http://testmeplease-eu.s3.amazonaws.com/100mb.bin
–17:28:42– http://testmeplease-eu.s3.amazonaws.com/100mb.bin
=> `100mb.bin’
Auflösen des Hostnamen »testmeplease-eu.s3.amazonaws.com«…. 87.238.86.131
Verbindungsaufbau zu
testmeplease-eu.s3.amazonaws.com|87.238.86.131|:80… verbunden.
HTTP Anforderung [...]