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Increasing throughput and speed on a long distance server in HK to NYC

Pings from a server in Hong Kong to NYC is 200ms+. I know I can’t change that much as I’d be breaking the laws of physics. I have a 100mbit connected ubuntu server in Hong Kong and I want to access it in NYC. The download speed on the server is about 25mbit and upload ranges from 2-9mbit.

What else can I do to increase this throughput mainly for upload speed? What bottlenecks should I be aware of?

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