on Due to an oversight on my part, I have unfortunately taken Pestalozzistr. 63 partially offline. I apologize for this. I will take care of getting you back online today.
Update: Pestalozzistr. is back online.
on Our monitoring solutions indicate that it can no longer reach our switches in Eugenstr. The reason for this is not entirely clear; it could be due to a switch that has died of old age or to some kind of problem with the uplink.
We will take care of it today.
Update: Eugenstr. is back online – if problems are still appearant, please contact us.
on At the Hibuka in the French Quarter, we were able to recruit an Erasmus student for our working group for last week.
Many buildings in the quarter currently do not yet have gigabit connections in the rooms. We are using this opportunity to upgrade the local infrastructure.
Wankheimer Täle 1 forms the central uplink of the French Quarter as well as the buildings in Eugenstraße. During the work, there may be temporary internet outages there.
Our team will start on Sunday, 30 November 2025, at around 10 a.m. and will work its way from building to building. Anyone who would like to have a look at our network technology is warmly invited to stop by.
We will update this blog post regularly throughout the day.
Update, Saturday 6 p.m.: We will only start installation work tomorrow at 12 o’clock.
Update Sunday 1 p.m.: we are starting in Wankerheimer Täle 1
Update Sunday 5:20 p.m.: Provenceweg 1 and Landkutschersweg 4+6 are pretty much finished.
There will still be a short outage of the entire buildings when we switch the fiber connection from 1 to 10 gigabit.
Update Sunday 7 p.m.: The switch to 10 gigabit could not take place due to excessive attenuation on the fiber. The outage lasted 1.5 hours, longer than expected, because diagnostics and rollback were necessary.
on Hello everyone,
During the course of the evening, we will be replacing switches at Fruwirthstr. 3, 7, and 9, which will cause the internet to be down for approximately one hour at each location.
We will let you know as soon as we are done – everything should be working again by tomorrow morning at the latest!
Update 9:42 p.m.: Fruwirthstr. 3 has already been completed—if you encounter any problems, please report them as soon as possible!
Update 00:28: Fruwirthstr. 7&9 have also been swapped—and we’re back in Tübingen.
So you should all have internet again – and new switches that will last a long time. 🙂
on On Sunday, November 2, 2025, starting at 8:15 PM, we will replace your network hardware with new equipment. This upgrade will provide you with Gigabit synchronous connectivity directly to your room.
The hardware replacement is expected to take approximately 2 hours, from 8:15 PM to 10:15 PM.
Update: We finished our work. If something is not working or you, contact us!
on On Sunday, November 2, 2025, starting at 4:00 PM, we will replace your network hardware with new equipment. This upgrade will provide you with Gigabit synchronous connectivity directly to your room.
The hardware replacement is expected to take approximately 1.5 hours, from 4:20 PM to 5:50 PM.
Update: We finished our work. If something is not working or you, contact us!
on On Sunday, November 2, 2025, starting at 4:00 PM, we will replace your network hardware with new equipment. This upgrade will provide you with Gigabit synchronous connectivity directly to your room.
The hardware replacement is expected to take approximately 1.5 hours, from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM.
Update: We finished our work. If something is not working or you, contact us!
on Around 12:10, one of the two switches at Fichtenweg 1 failed, causing most of the rooms to currently have no internet connection.
We are on our way to replace the switch.
Update: since 1:27 pm the house is online again. The priority to upgrade this house has been increased.
on Unfortunately, a switch serving 24 rooms (rooms 101–125, pest63) has failed.
We are using this incident as an opportunity to upgrade your building to our new hardware, which will result in a brief outage for everyone living there.
However, this will not happen until tomorrow (October 14, 2025) at the earliest. As soon as we have a precise time for the hardware replacement, we will update this post.
Update 14/10/2025 7:50 am: This afternoon a quick fix will be done. In the next few days, we will upgrade to the latest MikroTik switches, so you will then have gigabit.
Update 14/10/2025 1:40 pm: Rooms are online again. Upgrade to gigabit will be probably on Sunday.
Update 21/10/2025 8:15 AM: Reboot of the building
Update 21/10/2025 22:54 PM.: Unfortunately, the quick fix broke down at around 8:00 a.m. today. In the evening, I set off to make sure that rooms 101-125 were back online. However, when I unplugged and plugged the master switch back in, it broke, which means that the whole house is now offline. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to fix it tonight, but I’ll take care of it tomorrow right after work. I’ll replace the hardware as mentioned above, and then the building should run smoothly for a good few years. So if everything goes according to plan, you’ll be back online tomorrow evening.
Update 22/10/2025, 9:41 PM.: I have replaced all switches, and the internet should be back up and running throughout Pestalozzistr. 63. While I am still making some best practice changes, there may still be brief outages. Thanks to the switch to new hardware, this dorm now has gigabit internet, which is 10 times faster—however, most of you are using old routers that can only handle 100 Mbit/s, so most of you won’t benefit from this.
on A switch that is serving 24 rooms died today.
Instead of replacing the switch we will upgrade the house to gigabit.
We will be there tonight.
Update
9:30 PM – We are done and everything should be working normally again. If there are any issues still, let us know via the contact form.