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Orange Livebox is an ADSL wireless router available to customers of Orange's Broadband services in the United Kingdom,Kenya,France, Spain, Jordan, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Orange's Mauritian partner MyT, and TPSA in Poland. It is manufactured by Inventel.

Contents 1 Features 2 Liveprint 2.1 Scanning and Misc 3 Orange Wireless Adapter 4 Second Line 5 Digital Television 6 Livebox & Second Line Problems 7 External links

[edit] Features

• 802.11b/g Wi-Fi router
• Bluetooth adapter
• Ethernet ports
• RJ11 socket for VoIP calls using 'Second Line' (The name of Orange's VOIP Service).
• USB host port specifically for using a standard USB printer on the network, which Orange is calling "Liveprint"
• USB port for connection to a PC

Although hardware for these services is built into every Livebox, some (Bluetooth and Live Printer) are only activated by firmware updates. Currently, the latest firmware is v5.10.7-uk (for UK models) and was released on 13 February 2008.

With hacking, and possibly in future firmware releases, it may be possible to use other hardware, such as hard drives, with the USB host port. Due to deliberate restrictions embedded in the firmware, Liveboxes in the UK are locked to Orange. As a result, they will not work with other ISPs. However, hackers have found ways to circumvent this restriction by overwriting the firmware.[1]

[edit] Liveprint

When manually setting up a printer with Liveprint (in the UK) these printers are known to work:

• HP PSC750
• HP 845
• HP Laserjet 1200 series
• HP Laserjet 2100
• HP Deskjet D1300
• HP Deskjet 1220c
• HP Deskjet 960c
• HP Photosmart 2570
• HP Photosmart P1000
• HP Photosmart D5160
• HP Photosmart 7762
• Samsung ML-1610
• Epson Stylus CX3200
• Epson Stylus DX3800
• Epson Stylus Photo R245
• Epson Stylus Photo R265
• Epson Stylus Photo R300
• Epson Stylus Photo 935
• Epson Stylus C44UX
• Epson Stylus C64
• Epson Stylus DX8450
• Epson Color Stylus 440
• Canon IP4200
• Canon i560
• Brother HL-1250
• Dell 720
• Xerox Phaser 6110

A list of working printers for LivePrinter
A step by step tutorial for setting up this feature on Linux or Mac OS X using CUPS is available here

[edit] Scanning and Misc

It is not possible to the use the scan function on multifunction printers over Liveprint at the moment. It is also not possible to use card readers built into printers connected to liveprint.

[edit] Orange Wireless Adapter

All new Liveboxes are supplied without wireless adapters. Orange previously supplied three different adapters with the Livebox:

1. The Inventel Wireless adapter, no longer available.
2. The SpeedTouch 121g Wireless Adapter. Details.
3. The SpeedTouch 122g Wireless Adapter. Details.

[edit] Second Line

Second Line is Orange's VoIP service through the Livebox. In the United Kingdom and Spain it is free to call landlines and other Livebox numbers. Additionally, the UK Livebox allows free calls to Orange mobile phones and 30 international countries (providing the call is made from the Orange Second Line to a landline in that country. A list of these coutries can be found here: http://download.orange.co.uk/talk/HomeVoicePriceGuideMaster150409.pdf

Using the device in Jordan, it's free to call other Orange livebox subscribers. It costs 10p per minute to call any other mobiles. Livebox phone numbers begin with 0845, but other area codes can be selected from the members center.

However, the free Orange Mobile calls only apply to users using the Home Select / Home Max Packages, and they must be an Orange Pay Monthly user. Users can enter their contract ID into their Member Center configuration pages.

In the firmware update of February 2008, the ability to adjust the audio quality of the VoIP service was added.

[edit] Digital Television

In the firmware update of February 2008, IPTV support was added via the Yellow Ethernet port and would be for Orange customers who had was in the network area (LLU). This was in advance of a Digital Television service from Orange that was supposed to launch later in 2008. Orange did undertake trials of the service, but announced in November 2008 that they would not be rolling the service out.

[edit] Livebox & Second Line Problems

The recent Livebox 1.2 is being released with new signups to the broadband service. However, The same problems are still there from the first Livebox. Problems such as "PPP Server Down", "Invalid ADSL Authentication" are still present and reliability of the connection has not improved a great deal.

It is also greatly known around the Internet that the Livebox (both generations) have issues with the "Second Line" service as certain phones are fully compatible.

Handsets that are known to work with the second line are

Argos B100
Nova Idec N1i
Lazer 905K
BT Studio 1100

[edit] External links

• Liveprinter setup
• Livebox Help
• LiveBox GPL Inside

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