Just for kicks, we decided to try an internal speedtest from another location on our datacenter (not in the VPS Cloud)

The results speak wonders for the local network

root@storm:/tmp# wget http://83.170.64.15/speedtest.256mb
--10:46:33-- http://83.170.64.15/speedtest.256mb
=> `speedtest.256mb'
Connecting to 83.170.64.15:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 268,435,456 (256M) [text/plain]

100%[====================================>] 268,435,456 91.03M/s

10:46:35 (90.94 MB/s) - `speedtest.256mb' saved [268435456/268435456]

Yeah, thats as close to 1Gbs as you can get