I Can Has Annex M

My ISP - iiNet - just announced (as of April 1) that they are now supporting ADSL2 Annex M, which increases the upstream bandwidth from 1Mbps to 3.5Mbps.  (Well, up to 3.5Mbps, depending on your distance from the exchange and overall line quality, but I'm pretty close to the exchange and have good S/N and attenuation levels.)

To do that, I first needed to upgrade to a business plan, which cost an extra $eek per month.  Before, the only worthwhile extra I got with the business plan was a static IP, which I desperately needed but which wasn't worth $eek per month.  Now I get a static IP and much faster uploads (plus less useful stuff like priority support), so I jumped on it.

Twice.  Maybe three times.  I tried to used the online plan changer thingy, but it refused to work, so I left it for another day.  Only today I got an email billing me the extra business plan fees, and when I looked, there it was, a little tick box for enabling Annex M.

First I have to swap the modem.  My old DG834v2 doesn't support Annex M, but my new DG834Gv4 does.  Only they're on the wrong lines, respectively.  Once that's done, though, whoosh.

Update: Weird.  I swapped the modems around, and ended up with two perfectly functional connections, instead of the expected zero.  This probably means I'll get hit by a bus tomorrow.

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