Minecraft's website hosting service is run in the district of columbia even though Mojang is based in stockholm
SMP1 is hosted in Tampa, Florida. And so is smp2. And, again, so is smp3. I take it all servers under the ownership of Justin Khalland (we all know who that is ) are hosted in Florida.
I will never understand the way Justin likes to work the server IPs. The website hosting is run in New Jersey, and the server hosting is run in Florida. Well atleast they give us good quality servers with some of the best staff around.
Actually, most servers i have heard of in the US have 1000 mb/s Speeds! But my home, in the US, only gets .4mb/s DL speeds on a good day
Soon everyone will be hosting in Kansas City, haha. If you don't know what I'm talking about: www.google.com/fiber
Oh man do I know what you mean to download anything I start the download at night and then deal with the setup in the morning.