I have now had the benefit of 2 hrs of the techies time - and they rang me!!
An actual instance of Orange doing what they said they would - cherish it!
Well, I feel better for the rant!!
Anyhow, i looked up the IP address that my proper router had assigned to the non-seeing PC. (Sadly, I write this sort of thing down)
And I manually assigned this a ...
my son's in bed now, so i can't access his pc til 2moro.
it was on dchp - before the liebox it just found the network without prompting and was quite happy for the past year that way.
Have i got to ...
Aha.
well i tried your advice. first i had 5 attempts at resetting the liebox, which eventually did reset properly
I had to try 3 pcs before i found one that actually recognised the liebox by IP ad ...
great. thanks for that; i was a bit sceptical.
What wiring route should i use? Aren't the ethernet sockets out only? or should i use the usb B connections or the 1, 2 usb A connections on the livebox ...
can I get the "free " calls without the livebox?
As the livebox is a crock of 5h1T and I don't intend to use it can I use anything else to get the free callls?
I'm already using wanadoo broadband. I moaned at Orange for charging me more for 1 mbps than they were quoting for full speed. I got a reduction and the speed - good.
I also got a livebox thingy. ...