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 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 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 One of four switches in the house stopped working.
First report from the house at 11:02 AM.
2:10 PM: Quick fix on site, now only 12 rooms are offline.
… Get replacement from Tübingen …
4:50 PM: Back in Tübingen, you are online.
on In the house at Pestalozzistraße 65, it looks like a device died.
The following rooms are probably affected: 222, 223, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322.
If we have access to the tech cabinets and the locks haven’t been changed again, we can probably install new hardware in the evening and get you back online.
Please contact us as soon as possible if you notice any problems.
Update 3:20 pm: Now all the house is offline.
Update 4:26 pm: got an report that 63 is down.
Update 8:05 pm: last tests, but you all should be online and the number 65 upgraded to gigabit speed.
on We replaced our hardware.
Most rooms should be working, some cables need an electrician.
Next step is to stop the leaking heating.
on The water is running through our electrical cabinet, some ports have already failed. Our hardware is now off the grid and will be scrapped.
We will set up new hardware later this evening and place it next to the cabinet in the dry.
on Good morning!
Yesterday, 07. of March 2023, we were able to complete the wiring at about 20 o’clock.
We had started around 18:30. So if during that time “the internet was gone”, it was because there was no cable connected at our end.
Starting from the upper floors, you should have come back online when plugged in. We finished at 8pm.
In your rooms the left, oddly labelled network socket should work now.
Until yesterday, some rooms were unsystematically missing its wiring and we didn’t know which room was connected where.
Normally we announce maintenance work longer in advance, but this time it was urgent.
Please contact us if you have any problems!
Your volunteers of the Netz-AK (short for Netzwerk Arbeitskreis = Network Work-group)
on Since this morning we know which rooms is behind which cable.
Not every room has internet yet.
Will recable the house in the next two hours.
Sorry, it has to be done.