Some Orange Livebox questions

All,

I'm thinking of moving to Orange as I work for them (not in the
broadband dept) and I can get a fairly keen price on it. I also found
out my neighbour has it and get's 6.5Mb where I currently get just over
2. The free calls to landlines and Orange mobiles appeals to me, as most
of my immediate family and friends are on Orange for mobiles.

I would like to know answers to the following detailed questions and
would be grateful for any current users experiences.

1. To use the free VoIP calls must I use the livebox, or can I use my
own ATA (which I already have)? Are the SIP settings extractable from
the livebox? If not, does the livebox have to be connected directly to
the WAN, or will the VoIP work as long as it's on the LAN and can see
the internet?

2. I already have a router, I would want to use the livebox purely as
the modem, and allow my draytek router to do all the other stuff like
DHCP, wireless etc. I will plug the LAN from the livebox into a LAN port
on the draytek, and turn off DHCP in the livebox. Any problems with
this?

3. The drayek acts as a VPN server. As this will no longer be at the
"boundary" of my home network, is it a case of forwarding some ports
through the livebox to the draytek? Or placing the draytek in the
livebox DMZ? I'm OK ish with networking but never really with 2 routers
(even though one router will just be a modem).

4. The draytek can support DynDNS, since orange do not offer a static IP
I would need to use this to be able to VPN in. Any dyndns user comments
would be welcomed.

5. Are there any things that the livebox cannot do which might be
expected of a "normal" router, e.g. port-forwarding?

6. Is there anything the livebox can do, which I might not find in a
"normal" router?

7. I don't think we offer usenet access, so is news/individual,net still
regarded as one of the best for non-binary groups?

I think that's all for now, thanks for any help.
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Regards
Jon
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