I closed down my laptop and orange box during a visit to the UK and when I returned everything worked OK. I'm going to monitor performance carefully as I suspect either the BBC are not keeping us informed of glitches or Orange are monitoring consumption and capping bandwidth. We've had intermittent probs with the Orange second phone so suspect the latter is the more likely explanation. Again, if I'm right, a bit of feedback from Orange would save a lot of grief. However, after running an IT Helpdesk for some years I should have known that a full reboot/cool-off would eventually do the trick, and that any Network problems at the other end probably wouldn't affect the Network Support teams PC so didn't officially exist....

While in the UK I visited a computer fair and bought a little internet radio (wi-fi) which is coping very well indeed - better with Real than other formats, allowing me to hear English voices in multiple rooms.

Thanks for your responses.