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.
Update 16.12.2025: Using new fiber patch cables, we will try to optimize the attenuation on our connection between Franz-Viertel and our server room in Fichtenweg this evening. There will be a few very short outages in Franz-Viertel and Eugenstraße.
