Yes you can continue to use your Orange account for email at no charge. However Orange block you from sending mail through their SMTP (outgoing) mail servers unless you use their PAYG dial in numb ...
eh... PlusNet seems good... haven't got any experience with them but they basically won all teh awards from uswitch that Orange lost... 9 out of 12 of them i think... they seem good value and stuff...
We signed up with freeserve over 10 years ago and were extremely happy with it... then wanadoo came along and we found that quite good too... but now that Orange has taken over, we've had tons ...
1. i'm not entirely sure, but i don't see why it wouldn't work... our livebox is just plugged in through a normal whatever network cable into a splitter thing... i think it should be ok, but i ain't e ...