I tried and noticed the downloads where all directed to ireland and all worked via various TCL connections...
Speed varied from 1-2Mbps

Seems that Amazon has 3 data centres for the s3 service and clients choose where they want there data hosted.
http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pric...

The company storing the data could ask to host there data in the US which whould halve the distance and greatly improve the download speeds in NZ. If there client base is europe why would they?

dig copilotlive8.s3.amazonaws.com @ns1.acld.clix.net.nz = 87.238.83.131

dig copilotlive8.s3.amazonaws.com @ns2.acld.clix.net.nz = 87.238.87.131
dig copilotlive8.s3.amazonaws.com @ns1.paradise.net.nz = 87.238.86.135
dig copilotlive8.s3.amazonaws.com @ns2.paradise.net.nz = 87.238.87.135
dig copilotlive8.s3.amazonaws.com @ns1.clear.net.nz = 87.238.86.131
dig copilotlive8.s3.amazonaws.com @ns2.clear.net.nz = 87.238.83.187

other isp's
dig copilotlive8.s3.amazonaws.com @alien.xtra.co.nz = 87.238.83.187
dig copilotlive8.s3.amazonaws.com @terminator.xtra.co.nz = 87.238.86.135

Amazon Cloudfront is a better fit for doing content distribution like streaming/file downloads as they distribute the data a bit closer to a client.