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.
on Long awaited – this evening, we are upgrading the Geissweg to Gigabit. During the the work on the switches, the internet there won’t work.
We’ll update this site post as soon as we’re finished.
Update 8:06 PM: Everything back online – now 10x as fast!
on Due to issues with the connections and an unsuccessful remote diagnosis, we will be visiting you today. We’ll take this opportunity to replace the switch with a new one and update our posters.
We are still looking for members from Hohenheim, as we currently only have one member there. If you’d like to join, please get in touch via the contact form.
The downtime due to the switch replacement should last about 45 minutes, and it will only affect Fruwirthstraße 5.
If you have any other issues or questions that can only be resolved on-site, now is the best time to let us know via the contact form while we’re already there.
Update: The maintenance is done, a new switch is installed and you should all be back online.
on There is a defective switch, so the building is offline, as are parts of Egilolfstraße 45.
We are heading out tomorrow to replace the device.
Update 27.07.2025 11:00 AM:
We are currently packing and configuring the switches in Tübingen and will then make our way to Hohenheim. Expected arrival is around 1:00 PM. Since we are also completely replacing the switches at Egilolfstraße 41/43/45, there may be brief outages there as well.
Update 27.07.2025 8:00 PM:
We have finished upgrading all the switches at Egilolfstraße 41/43/45, as well as upgrading the uplink for increased throughput. You should now be able to surf the web normally again. If there are still any issues, please contact us via the contact form.
on We had an outage in Albstadt for several days on June 4 this year – in connection with a power failure there. So something happened, a lightning strike or something.
A member from Albstadt brought the switches to our weekly meeting today and we unscrewed them to see what had happened – when we plugged them in, they no longer started up.
Our analysis: A capacitor in the power supply unit has been smashed due to too much current.
Switch 1:
Switch 2, more detailed, also with the part separated from the rest:
on Tomorrow between 8 AM and 4 PM, there may be brief interruptions to your internet connection.
But don’t worry — if everything goes smoothly, the outages will only last a few seconds. In the worst case, you might need to restart your router once.
Why are we doing this? We’re upgrading your internet connection and increasing the capacity of our uplink for the dormitories.