Here is my Ridiculous configured instance doing a speedtest to linode west:
dhc-user@ridic1:~$ wget http://speedtest.fremont.linode.com/100MB-fremont.bin
–2014-07-23 19:17:03-- http://speedtest.fremont.linode.com/100MB-fremont.bin
Resolving speedtest.fremont.linode.com (speedtest.fremont.linode.com)… 2600:3c01::4b, 50.116.14.9
Connecting to speedtest.fremont.linode.com (speedtest.fremont.linode.com)|2600:3c01::4b|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: â100MB-fremont.binâ
0% [ ] 500,616 41.3KB/s eta 42m 59s
And here is the same test using dreamhost shared host:
[sassafras]$ wget http://speedtest.fremont.linode.com/100MB-fremont.bin
–2014-07-23 12:18:22-- http://speedtest.fremont.linode.com/100MB-fremont.bin
Resolving speedtest.fremont.linode.com… 2600:3c01::4b, 50.116.14.9
Connecting to speedtest.fremont.linode.com|2600:3c01::4b|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: â100MB-fremont.binâ
100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 38.3M/s in 2.6s
2014-07-23 12:18:25 (38.3 MB/s) - â100MB-fremont.binâ
Edit: Just did a test to my dreamobjects file, which should be able to max the transfer, and got maximum 35KB/s. 
Edit2: Down to 16.6KB/s
Testing this on two separate instances.
1% [26 fonts-freefont-ttf 2,020 kB/4,140 kB 49%] 16.6 kB/s 8h 31min 19s