Santa has been kind to me. I just switched to a new ISP. The results below speak for themselves.
 2009-12-25 |
 2009-07-20 |
That’s the good news. The less good one is that this whole VDSL2 infrastructure deployed by the incumbent telecom operator has some major security holes, on which I will post later, once I have finished my research.
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These speeds are a joke for the 21st century. The problem in Belgium, as in all the western countries, is that the entire telecom infrastructure was built 50 years ago and it is far to expensive to completely upgrade to optic fiber, so they all try to improve with adsl+, vdsl++, super-adsl, etc etc. While doing my research on comparative speeds, take for example Romania where you can get 120 Mbps download, 6 Mbps upload on optic fiber (no co-axial cable!) for 12 EUR/month. When will that kind of service be available in any western country? When will at least half of the service be available for double the price? 12 Mbps on any kind of dsl is really really bad
Have you completed your researches on these major security holes related with Belgacom VDSL2 Infrastructure?
@John
I posted about that, but in French. In short, open WIFI by default, identical admin passwords on all modems and unencrypted passwords in the configuration files make it easy to retrieve the credentials of the users. Hackers have no merit in this case. The operator did not even take the most elementary security measures.