Thanks. Surprisingly I'm running the restore over a VPN now and seeing much better speeds up around the 7-8Mbps mark. The VPN exit point is still in Australia but in Sydney instead of Brisbane. Should be able to get down in about 30-40 hours now at this rate. Strange.

So maybe it is my ISP or something at my end but I doubt it as everything else works fine. There'd be no reason particularly that they'd try and control Crashplan backups as I doubt it's common enough.

I do appreciate your offer though Mark. Thanks again.

To answer Matt's point regarding the storage of excessive extra data and Crashplan's point that the data is probably on another machine now, that may be so but that's also the point of the data deduplication. If it works (and it certainly seems to) then it's not even taking up excessive space.