I think you used the Internet provider from a different one, which is cheapist one -- whole community share one bandwidth.
My friends in China all use at least 30Mbits connection, now there is a promotion for 100MB for the same price.
My friends in China all use at least 30Mbits connection, now there is a promotion for 100MB for the same price.
For the slow speed between US and China, Jap (and other asian countries), I think that's the nature issue for oversea Internet connection. You can use this website (http://ping.chinaz.com/, you may need google translator) to test how speed looks like as you connect to other country from China.