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[Rhys]

Is there any appliance would speed up file access (and other TCP traffic) across the WAN?

You might be able to use something like MS Groove that will replicate (keep updated with any changes) files in several different locations. If the users access a local location with the replicated data, they'll have the latest data but be pulling it from the local box which would be faster.

Depending on your scope you may be able to use AHK to whip something up. I have a script that checks a remote index file and replaces the (old) local index file with it whenever it's updated. This is done by checking 'last modified' date of the files. You could take that concept further and have a 'master' file location with several sub-locations that update their files whenever the master location has newer versions.

Just some things to think about. HTH.