Line has been upgraded to ADSL2

Question

So I requested for my line to be upgraded yesterday and I got a very fast response and noticed my line was switched to G.992.3 Annex A (ADSL2) in the early hours of the morning, thanks very much for this.
As I imagined my line is more than enough to handle the upgrade but I was wondering if the full effect has taken place yet or does it take a day to settle or something? So far I haven't noticed even the slightest of difference and also I was wondering why it's G.992.3 Annex A and not G.992.5 Annex (ADSL2+) ?
I'd also like to investigate further with my line so I'll recap what my initial problem is with the connection.
At the beginning of last year I had outstanding latency to most servers especially local and I achieved higher speeds at times as well but this isn't my concern although I could do with a tad more upload which I have achieved before, something like a stable 0.4 etc. But it's the ping which is the main concern here.
Here is a comparison:
January 2014
January 2015
As you can see the ping is a significant difference and the upload is slightly better but please take into consideration that the older speedtest was tested at a server further away than the current one so it was better than what is shown in the image above (speedtest.net 150mi compared to 100mi now).
So I thought a line upgrade would give me a slight increase not looking for anything major here but slight difference, but maybe it's too early?
Thanks,
Robert
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I will post the stats when I'm home from work tonight.
I understand the capabilities of my line but I'm only looking for tiny marginal differences when going from 0.3 to 0.4 could make the world of difference in upload and the ongoing issue of why latency has significanly dropped.
If I had an exceptional connection for my line in Janaury 2014 last year as shown above and ADSL2 can't even best that then where is the issue lying?
People expect big increases but I'm only looking for bread crumbs and also it's difficult to adjust playing with such good latency to high ping now. 
I was told I would be contacted on Saturday to see how the line was and hopefully some things will have adjusted by then but it still doesn't explain the ping. The exact same thing happened to me with sky after being with them a while and it took a lot of painful phone calls to finally get my latency down again, it was profile / settings etc.
Another thing which is racking my brain is at how much involvement DLM has on our lines, surely each DLM can be adjusted to not interfere with things like ADSL2 profiles and interleaving if BT have the customers consent? I would like to know that manually resetting my router isn't going to continually mess up my profile as resetting routers should be part of regular routine especially if you're a gamer?
Apologies for being picky here I'm just trying to get a full understanding. I forked out over £100.00 for a Netduma router in order to take advantage of the anti flood(prioritise my PC bandwidth over others in the household QoS) feature since my connection is terrible, turns out my upload speed is so poor that it starts to flood the games I play if it's enabled, so you can understand a little frustration.