Very bad performance downloading from Digital Ocean VPS (HTTP)

On my DO "droplet" located in NY I consistently get dismal HTTP download performance. I have tried HTTP download from multiple locations. Here is one test from a BuyVM VPS:

xxx@bvm:~$ wget -O /dev/null http://198.211.100.5/test.dat
... 10,485,760 74.5K/s in 2m 2s

A droplet from the same VM snapshot at the Amsterdam location performs better:

xxx@bvm:~$ wget -O /dev/null http://198.211.124.199/test.dat
... 10,485,760 1.62M/s in 7.6s

Anyone else experiencing similar problems? Do you get the same results when downloading those files.

-- kryps