Hi MuttyWango, welcome to the forums.
I also defected from Be nearly 2 weeks ago
>> I hotfooted it to the cab to see what was inside that green box of mystery
heh, so did I, but unfortunately it was a sub-contractor that did my install, who arent allowed access to the FTTC cabs and he just did a 2 minute rewire in the PCP. He'd already locked up the cab by the time I got there.
>> I'm keen to see the stats from the modem but the OR subbie said I shouldn't disconnect it for 10 days.
I put my HG612 on the same day. I was going to wait because
I didnt have the smoothest of installations with 6 hours of downtime and I did several full resyncs and didnt want to push my luck with the DLM.
Anyhow I took B*cat, Colin, BS & BE's assurance that the DLM doesnt intervene until the next day... and at least that part was something that went right
My 10 days are up, but I can confirm that during this period Ive had a quite a few re-syncs, loss of syncs and even engineers just pulling the modem cables out, and touch wood Ive not been affected. It also looks at the error rates too. I have an intermittent line fault atm, but much of the time the line is stable and it produces little errors.
Follow B*cats advice, I always recommend powering down by unplugging the mains. This allows the modem to send a dying gasp signal down the phone line to the DSLAM so it knows its a power failure and not loss of sync through low SNR or errors. I also if possible wait 1/2 an hour before reconnecting, which helps the DLM know its a deliberate power down.