Somehow I never realised that my host has servers in Europe. Maybe its a new feature, but they never told us.  Bah, blaming them isn’t really the right thing to do – they have servers in Europe (London I believe), and I’ve just signed up for one. The transfer is already done and took about an hour to complete. So now I have IIS7 running in London, and its fucking fast!  The speeds are awesome : 3815kbps (EU) versus 1915kbsp (US) download speeds and 1338kbps (EU) versus 1221kbps (US). That’s about twice the speed to get data from the server than it was before.  Nice!