Because we don't want the GUI to randomly be disabled?
That's a fair point.
There is no way to be sure that Openreach won't get tired of all this hacking and actually block telnet and/or the emergency firmware flashing functionality completely. I wouldn't personally fancy having to JTAG my modem to get everything back as my soldering skill is rather like a five year old with a knife and fork.
TBH, I did wonder why they hadn't blocked telnet access & firmware flashing when they first disabled the GUI.
Maybe that functionality is needed for their own monitoring/firmware updating methods?
If nothing else, your modem updating of its own accord could break your stats as the output of xdslcmd can change.
That's true & it did happen.
The raw stats were still harvested, which allowed us to see what had changed, but my programs did need to be amended to suit both the original & updated stats formatting to take that into account, so there was indeed a short period where plotting of ongoing stats didn't work.
I'm personally happy to
not block BT Agent as I'll at least be able to spot if anything changes & take action accordingly.
I do have a spare HG612, should everything be completely blocked in the worst case scenario.
Other makes of Broadcom based modems can also be used e.g. Zyxel etc. if necessary should all else fail.
As the firmware update did seem to aid stabiity & speed for some users, it would be a shame if everyone blocked updates & nobody noticed any other 'genuine' improvements.