Speed tests I've seen on here show some good results except they run from a NZ site, just wondering what people's performance is like from international sites?

As a guide I've used speedtest.co.nz which tests 3 local sites (2 on orcon and 1 on ihug) and 2 overseas sites which to me show a whopper difference. I tried speaking to ihug's helpdesk about it but not very happy with their answer about distance being what slows it down.

Speed	Location	Hosted By
985.2 k	New Zealand - Auckland	Orcon Internet
828.8 k	New Zealand - Auckland	Ihug
1054.2 k	New Zealand - Auckland	Orcon Internet
180.2 k	United States	1&1 Internet Inc
355.5 k	United States	Nibble Information Systems

Summary
Average (New Zealand): 956.1 kbps
Average (Australia): kbps
Average (International): 267.8 kbps

thats on a 1.3mb ADSL connection to ihug at 10.37pm (peak time)

I've tried the speedtest at bandwidthplace.com and a UK site I found, all around 2-300k.