Thinking of converting to Infinity

Hi
If anyone has any experience, or advice on the following it will be much appreciated.
I currently have BT Total Unlimited Business Broadband provided via ADSL on my home telephone number. The broadband used to be on a business telephone line but was moved when the business closed in order to save the cost of an exchange line that wasn't used for any calls. The move was also made to keep the "btconnect.com" email addresses that were in use for personal messages and had been in existence for over ten years.
I am a BT shareholder and have received a tempting offer to take up BT Infinity 2, inclusive of Anytime calls, if I switch to a home Infinity service.
I can't find a straight answer as to whether I can keep the old btconnect email addresses (we have 7 or 8 in use) or whether they will disappear in favour of a single new btinternet address. I can find mention of the ability to set up email aliases but not whether I can have more than one actual address.
There seems to be some question as to whether the existing home telephone number will be ceased and a new one provided. My current number has been in use here for nearly 40 years so I would not wish to have to change it.
In an attempt to sort out a fault last year, an Openreach engineer installed a Home Hub 3 (incorrectly as it turned out when it kept falling over) but the wireless range was far worse than my old Netgear DG834GT and devices less than 20 feet away could not get a reliable connection. I don't see why it should be, but is the home hub 3 any better with Infinity or would I probably end up with a range extender (Powerline maybe)? Opening ports on the home hub 3 (for use with an XBox) didn't seem to be as successful as on the Netgear router.
Thanks in advance.

Yes I've checked the BT estimates - 54.5/18M for Infinity 2. The ADSL broadband we've got not is around 5/0.8M so there is potentially a big difference if we can get round the email and router issues..
We had a fault last year, coincidentally (??) when the local exchange was being upgraded when the broadband kept losing sync and our speed dropped from 10/0.9M to 2/0.3. That was when we acquired the home hub as the engineer who eventually came out was blaming the problem on our old Netgear router. The fact that I connected another router with no difference didn't convince him. When the home hub kept falling over I found out he hadn't installed it properly anyway. I wasn't comvinced the home hub was new as the engineer went out to his van and reappeared with just the hub and the power unit, no other cables, paperwork, etc. That initial experience, and the very poor wireless coverage (which BT technical support said wasn't of any interest as they don't guarantee it will work anyway) together with the difficulty of getting the correct ports open for XBox use don't inspire me with confidence.

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