When did you sign up? I joined on the 1st of Dec, and I definitely remember there being a drop down box to choose the dialling code you want. There was a limited selection, but I could choose any from them.

I have been with orange since August time.
My exchnage is LLU'd so I am not sure if this makes a differnece to whether or not they can offer a local number.

I assume its simply this, orange buy x numbers in local area code from BT. When they have been allocated to people they supply users with 0845 numbers. This is how most VOIP Suppliers work for example Sipgate.com!

No torrent throttling, and livebox works fine with linux.