UK Netflix slow, but other UK good?

[airhead24 0]

I'm in Australia trying to use the UK servers to watch Netflix UK. I connect to Carinae with Eddie on Ubuntu 14.04 and can get good speeds to sites in UK such as BBC and speedtests such as ThinkBroadband where I usually get 5-6Mbps.

 

But when watching Netflix UK the speed is much less, only about 200-400kbps, and Netflix only gives videos at its lowest resolution, 320x240... ... very fuzzy ... and often pauses for buffering. How can that be improved?

 

If anyone else is watching Netflix UK from outside UK what resolution do you get on Netflix? And what is your setup to get best resolution?