I think I've transferred from their LLU to Orange Home (BT) WBC, as it's certainly what's shown on a new strange IP address lookup; and presumably this heralds part of their on-going LLU decommissioning programme as they advised in the report to their 2010 results presentation and what they've been saying to other customers:
"Due to new agreements with BT, all of our customers are due to be
migrated back to IPStream [sic, error, I think they mean BT's 21CN WBC where it's available on the exchange, as in my case] over the next 12 months. This is in an effort to provide a faster, fairer and more stable service to our customers".
Its good news for me on the line on which I've sought advice from here previously, unsuccessfully, as speeds have gone up from 2268/245 where even the Orange VOIP struggled, to 5168/845, with no change to the 10 NM and 50/47.5 attenuation, but the BT DSLAM seems to be responding to the line where Orange's own didn't, going from ADSL2+ to ADSL2. No doubt I now have to wait to see what BTs DLM makes of it. And just for info they've finally increased my price this month in line with the VAT increase, before they net the same discount happily!
With Orange's lack of technical know-how I'm not sure everyone will benefit in the same way but good luck! I gather they're supposed to send you an e-mail when it's about to happen but didn't in my case! Whether they're paying BT for enough backhaul might be another issue (but not a worry in my case as the alternative fixed wireless is still going strong at 12Mbps/6Mbps with Easynet's backhaul; but it's useful if Orange is now a realistic backup).
Apparently their information page (which with their usual helpfulness doesn't actually tell you what they are doing) is at: http://www1.orange.co.uk/changes/
[quote=There's only IPStream available from <a href="http://btbb.at/theside?LID=21">BT</a> in my exchange which is useless to me.[/quote]
I think [hope?] they'll wait until WBC 21CN is available at an exchange; otherwise they'd be in breach of the v2 Ofcom Code of Practice on speeds (for customers on up to 20Mbps contracts on LLU), which I assume they've signed up to as they intended (according to Ofcom). They said last year they had "no present intention" to offer FTTC services, although intimated their contract with BT "allowed" for it. Trouble is, Orange aren't very forthcoming with information, perhaps because they now seem almost wholly marketing-based.
UPDATE: Just thoughT I'd do a follow up with the BT speedtester results on the new Orange WBC:
Reminder: connection rates are 5186/874 (also reported by modem).
Profiles as expected: 4500/874
Although the measured upstream is good at 707, the downstream is 3375 of the lower than the profile maximum achievable rate of 4000kbps. This might presumably mean that Orange have set things up to take a very cautious view of stable speeds (or just be the DLMs response to errors)? On Orange LLU my speeds achieved could be within 500-700kbps of the connection rate reported by the modem.
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I gather they're supposed to send you an e-mail when it's about to happen but didn't in my case! Whether they're paying 
