Webperf performance

I've registered my site with www.webperf.net and the performance figures are abismal < 100Kb/s, placing us near the bottom on the ranking table. This is on an unloaded server.

Mod_throttle is unconfigured, so I don't beleive this could be causing a problem.
Has anyone else registered with webperf.net and can share the secrets to why some sites can get 3000Kb/s?
Is there a secret to the type of file you chose for their download tests?
Currently I have a ~5000kbyte gif file.

My server is located in a UK datacenter, with a 10Mbit ethernet card. I regulary get 300-400Kb/s when using up2date for downloads from redhat.

Server is running apache's httpd. PLenty of spare memory, CPU is a 1500MHz Alpha, load as mention stays arround 0.01

 

 

 

 

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