Category: Network Status

2026-08-11 Hardware maintenance in Nürtingen

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On August 11, 2026, we will perform a hardware replacement in Nürtingen. This will affect all dormitories on site, specifically Sudetenstraße 125, 127 and 129, as well as Schelmenwasen 10.

The maintenance will begin at approximately 9:00 AM and the hardware replacement will continue throughout the day until the evening. There may be intermittent outages, but these should be resolved within about 30 minutes per section each. If you encounter any issues either during, before or after the maintenance, please contact us via the ticket system or in person if you see us on site.

If everything goes according to plan after the hardware replacement, everything should return to normal operation, and a synchronous throughput of 1 Gigabit should be achievable.

2026-07-20 Maintenance Fichtenweg 7

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We have started replacing the hardware in your building with new equipment that has Gigabit capabilities. We’ve been working on it since 4 AM this morning; it should hopefully be finished by around 10 AM. After that, you should be able to browse the World Wide Web without any interruptions again.

2026-07-19 Pestalozzistraße 41 | Outage & Maintenance

Tim on

Some of you have been offline for four days because one of our old switches has failed. Due to the exam period and the resulting circumstances, we are unfortunately only able to replace all of the hardware with new equipment for you on Sunday evening. We no longer have any old hardware in stock for replacement and we also no longer install it.

If everything goes according to plan, we should start around 6 p.m. and be finished around 10 p.m. There is always a possibility of slight delays due to unforeseen events.

We will work through the switches one by one. Because of where the switches are located in your building, you will probably see us. Feel free to talk to us if you have any questions or are interested in what we are doing. We also welcome new members or helpers in Reutlingen, which might help things move a bit faster if something fails.

Update:

We are done, for the most part. There is stil one part of the building missing. We will be back some other day, to change our hardware out there too.

2026-07-13 Outage Heuberger-Tor-Weg

Tim on

You have been offline since around 6:13 a.m.

We are currently investigating the cause. As soon as we have further information, we will update this blog post.

Update:

You are back online. There was a power outage which caused our hardware to be offline for around 3 hours.

10:50AM And you are offline again. We are looking into it.

2026-07-02 Hohenheim maintenance on our Uplink by BelWü

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We have received information from our internet provider BelWü that on July 2, 2026, from 8 AM to 6 PM, maintenance work is planned as part of the network expansion at the Hohenheim East and West locations. Although we were not explicitly mentioned, it is possible that there may be an impact on internet availability in the dormitories.

Check the status for that work here: https://www.belwue.de/trouble-tickets/ticket/739.xml

2026-05-25 Precautionary switch upgrade in Geislingen

Malte on

Tomorrow on 2026-05-25 we will exchange the Alcatel switches that we installed in 2021 in Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße, which were already old at the time but nevertheless capable of Gigabit Ethernet, by new MikroTik devices.

There will be brief interruptions of service.

For us, the new hardware is vastly better to manage and makes our network future proof. We also hope to resolve some issues for a few of you Geislingen residents that had connectivity problems in the last weeks.

Update 2026-05-25 17:00: All work is successfully completed!

2026-05-13 planned maintenance work

Marajha Manthey on

We were informed by BelWü that there will be maintenance work that could effect our internet connection.

Here you`ll find the information provided to us. For details, follow the link (in German).

Beginn: 2026-05-13 00:00
Ende: 2026-05-13 06:00

Den Verlauf dieses Vorgangs können Sie unter folgender URL erreichen:
https://www.belwue.de/trouble-tickets/ticket/700.xml

2026-04-30 planned maintenance work

Marajha Manthey on

We were informed by BelWü that there will be maintenance work that could effect our internet connection.

Here you`ll find the information provided to us. For details, follow the link (in German).

Beginn: 2026-04-30 00:00
Ende: 2026-04-30 06:00

Den Verlauf dieses Vorgangs können Sie unter folgender URL erreichen:
https://www.belwue.de/trouble-tickets/ticket/699.xml

2026-04-12 Hardware swap | Maintenancework in Hohenheim

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In Hohenheim, we’re moving forward again: on April 12, 2026, we will replace the old hardware in three buildings, which should result in an “improvement” to the internet connection.

The affected buildings are Fruwirthstraße 11 and 13, as well as Welfenstraße 80.

  • The work will start at approximately 2:30 PM and last until about 6:00 PM.

We will work through the buildings one by one. Depending on the number of connections, the internet outage may last between 30 to 60 minutes. (For some, it may be shorter—depending on where your port is on our switches. So don’t be surprised if your neighbor gets their internet back before you do.)