Tune your TCP Receive Window first (Score 5, Informative)

The biggest speed issue facing Asia/Australia is the latency of traffic to the rest of the planet. The (Windows) TCP Receive Window is tuned too small for the distances required. If you change the receive window to the maximum, you can get 4x more data in the same period using any client (P2P, browsers, etc...).

Refer to:
http://cable-dsl.navasgroup.com/index.htm#IncreasingWindow