Thank you Juan,
I'm inclined to change when my current contract expires, but it is still paid up for the next year.
I'm reducing the amount of traffic that actually requires VPN so the problem has lessened as well.

We upgraded to the new 200M service last year. What China Telecom neglects to tell you is that you may need to change your router, and if using a wired connection possibly also need to change the network card in the computer in order to get the max speed.
Even so, the fastest speed I've had is 150M, and with VPN on that drops drastically to somewhere between 4M and 10M

Yes, there is an inner-city train. It's better known as the subway.

Those places that do have smoking and non-smoking sections seem to always arrange things so that it's necessary to walk through the smoking section first.

I've seen that in other countries as well.

I seem to recall needing a photo way back in 2010 the first time I registered, but not since then.
Same thing applied to a copy of the lease - first time.