BT Infinity, Home Hub 5 and Vonage VoIP not compat...

Hi
I have just (last Wednesday) switched from Sky Broadband to BT Infinity. I have a HH5 to which I wirelessly connect a TP-Link W8968 in wireless router only mode. I have all this set up and it all works, but I cannot get a dial tone from my Vonage VoIP phone line.
It did come online for about 12 hours on Friday evening but has dropped off again. It was plugged into the TP-Link router.
I have now plugged it directly into the HH5 to try to get a signal.
I have spent 4 hours on the phone with Vonage who have now told me (4th different person to speak to) after countless 'unplug it' and 'reset it' that the only way a Vonage line can operate with the HH4 and the HH5 is for all BT parental controls from within mybt.com to be deleted. I have now done this but must now wait 2 hours to plug the Vonage box back in.
But, I need the parental controls for the children's internet use and do not want to have to delete them.
Surely there is another way for the Vonage box to work with an HH5? It worked perfectly through my TP-Link with Sky Broadband.
Any help gratefully received.
Thanks in advance.
Martin

Giving the VOIP device a static LAN IP address, outside of the DHCP range is best, as the home hubs will quite often issue different addresses via DHCP, and tend to ignore lease times. The fact that it worked for a while would suggest that maybe the LAN IP had changed.
This page should help with the settings.
Using static IP addresses on your home network
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
BT Broadband customers - help with broadband, WiFi, networking, e-mail and phones.

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