I don't know if it because I am on a wireless connection, or just variances in overall usage, but I get very different results when testing between different servers - or even my local San Diego server - back-to-back and one after the other.
My upload speeds vary between ~1.1Mb/s to ~2Mb/s.
My download speeds vary from around 4Mb/s to ~13Mb/s.
My computer is using a wireless connection, BTW. I suspect I would see better speeds if I was wired directly. And I would suspect if I had a fiber wired connection things would be even better.
I actually got better speeds overall by testing through LA. Too bad I can't select LA as a jump-off point.