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 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 Some of you are kind enough to leave your router behind when you move out, so other students in the dorm can use it. Of course, these are not always the newest devices – sometimes we even find very old ones.
To keep things organised, we started collecting the leftover routers together with the caretakers here in Tübingen at Fichtenweg. By now, about 25 devices have been gathered. Anything that does not support modern Wi-Fi or current encryption standards is sorted out.
The working devices are passed on – together with a matching network cable – to the “WHO Dorfrat” (student dormitory council). They distribute them to people who only need simple internet access and for whom an older router is still good enough.
What matters to us is that you have really good and stable internet in the dorm. The internet connection in your room almost never fails – if you have problems, it is usually the router or its settings. Just contact us and we’ll show you how to set up your router correctly. You should basically have nearly 100% availability.
A big thank-you goes to the caretakers, who have been very active in collecting the routers!
on We got some outages reported and decided to exchange our hardware in your basement.
You will be offline for about one hour and have a gigabit connection afterwards.
on In Fichtenweg 29 a switch overheated at 4:30 am.
After being called on our private number at 9:30 we were able to fix the problem at 10:05am.
Please use the contact form, that’s much faster and less work for us.
on We are replacing some devices. Your network will be a bit faster afterwards, but you will have no internet while we work (3-10 minutes).