Independent guides, comparisons and reviews from Meilleure Fibre Internet.
Since 1 November 2024, Belgian law allows you to replace your operator's box with your own router. What that means in practice at Proximus, Telenet, Orange, VOO and Digi, the double-NAT trap, the real budget, and the two cases where you should leave things alone.
A strict NAT blocks the inbound connections an online game needs, on PS5, Xbox and Nintendo Switch. IP reservation, UPnP, port forwarding, double NAT: the method in order, and the one case, CGNAT, that no router setting will ever fix. Checked in Belgium on 26 September 2026.
No, the advertised speed is never guaranteed. Your contract must, however, state a minimum speed and a normally available speed for your address, and a repeated shortfall opens remedies. The worst-case maths on a shared fiber, the legal floor of 10 then 30 Mbps, and the steps to take. Checked on 26 September 2026.
The ONT turns the light arriving through the fibre into an Ethernet signal, and its generation decides which plans you can actually order at your address. Prices checked on 20 September 2026 on the Proximus catalogue, a GPON versus XGS-PON table, and what to do when a light goes out.
Digi advertises €10/month for 500 Mbps symmetrical, Scarlet €23/month everywhere in Belgium, Proximus €39.99/month on its entry-level fibre plan. The advertised price says almost nothing about the real cost: our twenty-four-month calculation, entry fees included, collected on 19 September 2026.
Before you call your provider, six steps in order to find out whether the slowness comes from the line, the router, the Wi-Fi or the device. With a table of times and equipment, and what a technician visit costs when the fault is inside your home. Rates recorded on 18 September 2026.
Nothing, as long as the rollout campaign passes through your street and you order a bundle. Outside that window the connection is billed, and Telenet publishes the tariff: €499 for the outdoor section. The full grid for five providers, the 80 and 20 metre thresholds, and the charges nobody advertises. Recorded on 15 September 2026.
Five categories on the shelf, one question that settles it: what is the fastest port on your router? Belgian router ports recorded on 10 September 2026, a table of speeds and distances, and the cases where paying for a higher category buys you nothing.
The switch can happen without a single day offline, on one condition: never cancel yourself, and let Easy Switch set the stop date after activation. The real day-by-day timeline, the cases where an overlap is impossible, and the three compensations owed if it goes wrong. Recorded on 3 September 2026.
