AG DSN

It's now possible to log in devices that don't support WPA2/WPA3 Enterprise via the WiFi called agdsn-mpsk. For this, the device needs to be activated by us. The best way to do this is to send an e-mail with the device's Wi-Fi MAC address to our Support or visit us in our office.

It's almost Christmas again! Unfortunately, there will be no traditional members' barbecue this year. But instead of a barbecue, there will be a mulled wine session.

What does that mean? There will be... - Mulled wine - Christmas candy - Waffles - a Christmas playlist

Where does it take place? At the AG DSN office at Wundtstraße 5.

When does it start? On 22.11.24 from 6 pm we will be serving up!

We look forward to seeing you, so come along!

Your Team Festivities of the AG DSN

On 2024-12-04 at 7pm the next General Assembly of AG DSN will take place online.

We will vote on a budget for 2025, as well as an amendment to our articles of association, our team regulations and our contribution regulations.

Members of AG DSN can find the full details and agenda in the invitation, but unfortunately only in German.

Due to lack of capacity and expected low demand, the office at Hochschulstraße 50 will stay closed on 31 October. The office at Wundtstraße 5 will be open for your requests as usual from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm and the support hotline will also be available at +49 351 89670993 during this time.

Otherwise you can also send us your requests at any time via e-mail at support@agdsn.de.

In order to swiftly provide all new tenants of the dormitories with help regarding AG DSN membership and network connection, we open our doors next week as follows:

Monday, September 30th, 2024:

• Office Hochschulstraße 50: 10AM-8PM
• Office Wundtstraße 5: 10AM-8PM

Tuesday, October 1st, 2024:

• Office Hochschulstraße 50: 10AM-7PM
• Office Wundtstraße 5: 10AM-7PM

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024:

• Office Hochschulstraße 50: 10AM-7PM
• Office Wundtstraße 5: 10AM-7PM

Thursday, October 3rd, 2024:

• Office Hochschulstraße 50: 7PM-8PM
• Office Wundtstraße 5: 7PM-8PM

During these times, you can also reach us by phone (+49 351 89670993) or by mail (support@agdsn.de).

On 16.10.2024 at 7PM the next general assembly of the AG DSN will take place.

Topic of the meeting is the election of a new executive board.

Full details of the meeting, including the agenda, are available to members in the invitation.

In order to swiftly provide all new tenants of the dormitories with help regarding AG DSN membership and network connection, we open our doors this week as follows:

Monday, September 2nd, 2024:

• Office Hochschulstraße 50: 10AM-7PM
• Office Wundtstraße 5: 9AM-4PM and 7PM-8PM

Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024:

• Office Hochschulstraße 50: 10AM-7PM
• Office Wundtstraße 5: 4PM-7PM

During these times, you can also reach us by phone (+49 351 89670993) or by mail (support@agdsn.de).

Just like last month, we'll report a few interesting events that happened to us. In case you missed the last post, you can read it here: https://agdsn.de/sipa/news/2024-05-01-april-at-agdsn

On 7th of May, after a meeting of our "Team Network", people sat down to update the software of our old core router. As you hopefully haven't noticed, no problems occured. Thanks to the fact we've migrated our uplink to the new core routers on March 16th, this've been much more relaxed than it would have before.

Some technical details: the old core router consists of three physical devices, united to to a single logical one. Therefore it's name, "Ianus". Each of the three devices is a FlexFabric 5900 from HPE.

The new routers are a group of three Omniswitch 6900-V72 from Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, they remain seperated logically though.

We didn't only maintain our technical connections but also our social ones. For that purpose we held our "Jahresessen" (annual dinner) on 29th of May. Just like in past years, we've had vivid discussions with people doing research and teaching at TU Dresden, the Studentenwerk, the "Zentrum für Informationsdienste und Hochleistungsrechnen der TU Dresden (ZIH)" as well as with companies we are in contact with, e.g. for procurement of network hardware.

Last but not least, an addendum to last months post: as we received reports about issues with the WLAN coverage, we've installed one more wireless access point manufactured by Aruba in five levels of the International Guest House on the 24th of April.

And that's the end of this months post! You're in the mood organising our next Jahresessen or other events? Join our Team Festivities! Take a look at https://agdsn.de/sipa/meetingcal for the next meetings. Any questions left? Write an email to du-bist-gefragt@agdsn.de.

What does the AG DSN actually do? Below a few highlights from the past month April.

On April 7th, a few active members met at the NOC, our large office, for Tux sewing. Fabrics were bought the day before. The goal was to manufacture two penguins, a blue and a orange one.

🖼️ The meeting room in the NOC where the sewing took place

🖼️ The blue and the orange Tux on a couch in the NOC

Orange, that's the color of the student network „Selfnet“. On April 13th, it celebrated it's 25th anniversary, five active members of the AG DSN took part. During the event, the orange Tux found a new home.

🖼️ The orange Tux looking out of the train window on it's way to Stuttgart

Last but not least, a bit more technical topic: for internal communication, the AG DSN runs a Mattermost as well as a XMPP server, Prosŏdy. Starting from April 16th, a Coturn joined the Prosŏdy to provide STUN as well as TURN functionality. With these services in place, active members can now initiate audio and video calls via XMPP.

Not mentioned in this post are the numerous unspectecular tasks, being accomplished everyday: answering email tickets, providing support in person, bank imports and many more.

Want to contribute to the student network yourself? Visit us at one of our team meetings! In case you have questions, reach out to us via email to du-bist-gefragt@agdsn.de.

On 2023-12-13 at 7pm the next General Assembly of AG DSN will take place online.

We will vote on a budget for 2023.

Members of AG DSN can find the full details and agenda in the invitation, but unfortunately only in German.

You have any questions regarding your network connection or you want to get to know the persons who take care of the network in your dormitory?

We, the AG DSN, invite you to our yearly BBQ for our members. With this we want to thank all our members for your understanding when there is maintenance work that needs to be done.

Where: Office Wundtstraße 5 When: October 19th starting 6PM
The food is free for all of our members (there are also vegetarian/vegan options). For a better overview of how many members are participating please sign in here.

Das Team Network lädt am 24. Oktober um 18 Uhr zu einer Schnuppersitzung in unserem Network Operations Center (NOC, Räcknitzhöhe 35) ein.

Wir bestellen Pizza für alle und geben euch einen Einblick in die Technik und den Alltag der AG DSN. Im Anschluss gibt es eine Technikführung durch unsere Netzwerk- und Serverräume in der Wundtstraße.

Für kühle Getränke ist ebenfalls gesorgt.

Wenn du teilnehmen möchtest, würden wir uns freuen wenn du dich kurz hier einträgst, damit wir die Teilnehmerzahl ungefähr abschätzen können.

Du kannst an dem Termin nicht oder möchtest schon vorher vorbeikommen? Wirf gerne einen Blick in unseren Sitzungskalender. Wir freuen uns immer über neue Gäste.

In order to swiftly provide all new tenants of the dormitories with help regarding AG DSN membership and network connection, we open our doors this week as follows:

Monday, October 2nd, 2023:

• Office Hochschulstraße 50: 7PM-8PM
• Office Wundtstraße 5: 6PM-8PM

Wednesday, October 4th, 2023:

• Office Wundtstraße 5: 4PM-7PM

Thursday, October 5th, 2023:

• Office Wundtstraße 5: 3PM-8PM

During these times, you can also reach us by phone (+49 351 89670993) or by mail (support@agdsn.de).

The required configuration for our WiFi's "agdsn" as well as "IGH" must be adjusted until November 13, 2023.

Important: This does not affect the WiFi that your router emits! It only affects "agdsn" and "IGH".

In order to use our WiFi without interruption, you should take action now by changing the following entries in your WiFi configuration:

• The Anonymous identity is now "wifi@agdsn.de". Other entries are not permitted and will not work.
• If CA certificate has been set, it must either be configured to use the system certificates (depending on the operating system, this option may be called "Use system certificates") or a new certificate must be downloaded and selected.

Starting from November 13, 2023, other configurations will no longer work and will result in the WiFi being no longer usable until the configuration has been adjusted.

You can find more information about the setup of our WiFi including an installation wizard on the corresponding information page.

On 19.09.2023 at 7PM the next general assembly of the AG DSN will take place.

Topics of the meeting are the election of a new executive board, the resolution of an updated budget plan, as well as changes of our constitution and team rules.

Full details of the meeting, including the agenda, are available to members in the invitation.

Since August 4, WiFi is area-wide available for our members in the dormitories Budapester Straße 22 and 24.

After the installation on July 29 and 30, the configuration of the installed devices has now been completed. This enables the use of our network in the whole building without having to buy your own router!

You can find out about how to set up our WiFi on our info page.

You are interested in technology and can imagine to participate in such actions yourself? The student network was created by students like you and is managed and expanded by them on a voluntary basis. You don't have to study computer science or something similar to join. You can find more information on our info page.

On 2026-06-28 at 7pm the next General Assembly of AG DSN will take place online via BigBlueButton.

We will update our budget plan for 2023.

Members of AG DSN can find the full details and agenda in the invitation, but unfortunately only in German.

On 2022-12-21 at 7pm the next General Assembly of AG DSN will take place online.

We will vote on a supplemental budget for 2022 and a budget for 2023. Furthermore, an information security team is to be established and the team description of Team Festivities is to be changed.

Members of AG DSN can find the full details and agenda in the invitation, but unfortunately only in German.

Starting today, every Thursday our office in Wundtstraße is open again from 19:00 to 20:00. You can still visit the office in the Hochschulstraße on Mondays from 19:00 to 20:00. More information about the support can be found here.

Furthermore there will be waffles and internet at the office at Wundtstraße 5 and Hochschulstraße 50 from 10 am to 5 pm on October 1st.

On 2022-09-28 at 7pm the next General Assembly of AG DSN will take place at GER/37/H.

We will elect a new Executive Board and change our teams constitution.

Members of AG DSN can find the full details and agenda in the invitation, but unfortunately only in German.

During the lecture-free period until the end of September the office in Wundtstraße 5 will be closed. The other office at Hochschulstraße 50 will remain open (Mondays 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.).

Phone consultation hours will remain on Mondays and Thursdays (also 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.).

On September 1st for move-in day, the office at Wundtraße 5 will be open from 10am to 5pm.

On September 2nd, the office at Wundtraße 5 will be open from 1pm to 5pm.

On October 1st for move-in day, the office at Wundtraße 5 and Hochschulstraße 50 will be open from 10am to 5pm.

On 2021-12-08 at 7pm the next General Assembly of AG DSN will take place at our BigBlueButton.

We will plan our budget for 2022 and do some small adjustments on our constitution.

Members of AG DSN can find the full details and agenda in the invitation, but unfortunately only in German.

In October, the dormitory Fritz-Löffler-Straße 12 will be integrated into the network of AG DSN. We welcome all residents and hope that we can further improve the quality of the network.

Those who have already had network access through the Studentenwerk in the past will continue to receive it free of charge. New tenants must become a member to receive network access.

During October, the installed floor switches will be replaced on all floors, as well as the network sockets. This should enable Gigabit access for all rooms. The conversion is always done floor by floor (per entrance).

For the conversion, the cables in the room (between network socket and end device) must also be replaced. Further details will follow. In addition, all end devices must be reconfigured so that the IP address is obtained automatically via DHCP and is no longer statically configured. This can be changed over as early as October 1 and must be done at the latest after the network socket has been replaced.

Experience has shown that minor problems occur when migrating approximately 500 residents to the AG DSN system. If your connection does not work as expected, contact our support team. We will be happy to help you!

To help with the registration of all the new people arriving for the new semester, our offices at

• Wundtstraße 5 (from 10am to 5pm)
• Hochschulstraße 50 (from 10am to 5pm)

will be open on Friday (2021-10-01).

Also, our office at Wundtstraße 5 will be open additional days/times as follows:

• Monday, October 4 from 18:00 to 20:00.
• Tuesday, October 5 from 13:00 to 18:00.

We also offer freshly baked waffles for free in our offices.

During the office hours, you can also call us at +49 351 89670993 or send an email to __ support@agdsn.de __.

But not only new members are welcome, we are always looking for new volunteers. If you would like to see and learn how a network for over 4000 users is run, have a look!

On 2021-09-29 at 7pm the next General Assembly of AG DSN will take place at POT/13/H.

We will elect a new Executive Board and change our budget for 2021.

Members of AG DSN can find the full details and agenda in the invitation, but unfortunately only in German.

To help with the registration of all the new people arriving for the new semester, our office at

• Wundtstraße 5

will be open from 10am to 5pm on Wednesday (2021-09-01).

Presumably, we can also offer freshly baked waffles (for free).

During the office hours, you can also call us at +49 351 89670993 or send an email to __ support@agdsn.de __.

But not only new members are welcome, we are always looking for new volunteers. If you would like to see and learn how a network for over 4000 users is run, have a look!

In today's General Assembly, a new network constitution was adopted.

Practically, not much changes for our members. Above all, the previously implemented practice was formulated in summary.

The network rules can be found like all rules under Legal Aspects on our website.

On 2021-06-30 at 7pm the next General Assembly of AG DSN will take place online at our BigBlueButton Server.

There we will discuss our new network constitution and corresponding amendments to our constitution.

Members of AG DSN can find the full details and agenda in the invitation, but unfortunately only in German.

On Saturday (2021-04-10) the dormitories St.-Petersburger-Straße 21/25/29 were fully integrated into the network of the AG DSN. We warmly welcome all residents and hope that we could further improve the quality of the network.

Those who have already had network access through the Studentenwerk in the past will continue to receive it free of charge. New tenants must become a member to get network access.

Experience has shown that minor problems occur when migrating approximately 500 residents to our system. If your connection does not work as expected, please contact our support team. We will be happy to help you!

As announced our general assembly took place on 2020-12-02.

The following results were decided:

• The supplementary budget for 2020 and the budget for 2021 were discussed and approved.
• The description of Team Festivities was adjusted. Therefore the team can plan more events.

The complete minutes can be found here (login required), but unfortunately only in German.

On 2020-12-02 at 7pm the next General Assembly of AG DSN will take place online at our BigBlueButton Server.

There we will discuss the budgets for 2020 and 2021.

Members of AG DSN can find the full details and agenda in the invitation, but unfortunately only in German.

To help with the registration of all the new people arriving for the new semester, our offices at

• Wundtstraße 5
• Hochschulstraße 50

will be open from 10am to 8pm on Thursday (2020-10-01).

Our office at Borsbergstraße 34 will be open from 3 pm to 7 pm.

Please wear a mouth-nose-covering when visiting our offices.

If you want to socally distance yourself, you can call us at +49 351 89670993 or send an email to __ support@agdsn.de __

But not only new members are welcome, we are always looking for new volunteers. If you would like to see and learn how a network for over 3000 users is run, have a look!

As announced our general assembly took place on 2020-07-15.

The following results were decided:

• The new executive board was elected and the old one exonerated.
• The supplementary budget for 2020 were discussed and approved.

The complete minutes can be found here (login required), but unfortunately only in German.

The office in Wundtstraße 5 and the office in Hochschulstraße 50 are open today out of scheduled, probably until 7 pm. When you come along, please remember to keep sufficient distance and to wear a mouth-nose-covering if you get in contact with other people.

From Sep 1st on, we're offering a preliminary version of our online registration for new members which allows you to get rid of the nasty paperwork and to access our network even faster. In case you're experiencing problems during the registration process, we would be glad if you sent us an e-mail.

Of course, you may still feel free to hand in the analogue application forms instead. Please post your complete and signed application into our mailboxes at Hochschulstraße 50 or Wundtstraße 5.

On 2020-07-15 at 7pm the next General Assembly of AG DSN will take place at POT/81/H.

We will elect a new Executive Board and change our budget for 2020.

Members of AG DSN can find the full details and agenda in the invitation, but unfortunately only in German.

Update 2020-07-09: changed room

We are glad to announce that we can offer a new support hotline (at 0351 89670993) to you. Because of some technical difficulties when changing our phone operator we unfortunately needed to switch to this new number. We are trying to be contactable by phone at least on Mondays and Thursdays 7-8pm. In the contact box on our website, there will be a hint (green bullet) if the number is additionally reachable during other times. We are sorry for not being able to offer personal support for such a long time.

Outside of our support hours, you can of course leave us a ticket.

We just shut down our HTTP cache. Since this service was only available for Steam and only a few members used it, there will be little to now impact on our network. The shutdown enables us to take measures to increase the reliability of other services.

As announced our general assembly took place on 2019-11-06.

The following results were decided:

• The supplementary budget for 2019 and the budget for 2020 were discussed and approved.
• Team Borsbergstraße was founded.
• The organizational unit of the section was removed from our statutes. Furthermore, all occurrences of "Studentenrat" in the statutes were replaced by "StuRa".

The complete minutes can be found here (login required), but unfortunately only in German.

On 2019-11-06 at 7pm the next General Assembly of AG DSN will take place at REC/B214/H.

There we will discuss some changes of our constitution and budgets for 2019 and 2020.

Members of AG DSN can find the full details and agenda in the invitation, but unfortunately only in German.

Due to many support requests we're offering an aditional office hour today (2019-10-19) at Güntzstraße.

Place: Güntzstraße 22, Room C1 (next to the club Contdown)
Time: 8.30pm to 9.30pm

To speed up the registration of all the new people arriving for the new semester, our offices at

• Wundtstraße 5
• Hochschulstraße 50

will be open all day on Tuesday (2019-10-01).

Our office at Borsbergstraße 34 will be open from 1 pm to 4 pm and from 7 pm on.

But not only new members are welcome, we are always looking for new volunteers. If you would like to see and learn how a network for over 3000 users is run, have a look! There will be tours through our tech rooms and fresh waffles.

The office at Hochschulstraße has moved from Hochschulstraße 46, basement to Hochschulstraße 50, ground floor.

Contrary to the previous news there will be office hours at Wundtstraße today.

As announced our general assembly took place on 2019-04-10.

• The new executive board was elected and the old one exonerated.
• The supplementary budgets for 2018 and 2019 were discussed and approved.
• Some minor changes of our constitution were briefly discussed, but no changes made, yet.

The complete minutes can be found here (login required), but unfortunately only in German.

Due to the holiday there will be no office hours on 2019-06-10.

You can still contact us via the contact form or email.

Please remember the payment of your membership contribution (currently 5€ per month).
You can also pay for several months at once (30€ per semester).

All those who haven not yet transferred the contribution for April (was due on 2019-04-30) are kindly asked to catch up soon.
After 2019-05-14, tardy members may be excluded from all services.

You can find the payment details here.

On 2019-04-10 at 7pm the next General Assembly of AG DSN will take place at REC/B214/H.

The main topic will be the election of our new executive board. Besides that we will discuss some minor changes of our constitution and supplementary budgets for 2018 and 2019.

Members of AG DSN can find the full details and agenda in the invitation, but unfortunately only in German.

Today we are starting the test operation of our wifi infrastructure in the dormitory Gret-Palucca-Straße 11.

You can find more information at Wi-Fi-Test.

We plan to extend the wifi to all dormitories over the next years.

We will inform you about problems here.

Dear members,

Article 13 has been on everyone's lips in recent weeks and will be voted on in the European Parliament on the 25th of March. In concrete terms, Article 13 is part of the planned copyright reform aimed at strengthening copyright on the Internet. To this end, platform operators are to be made obligated to identify and effectively prevent copyright infringements. The idea behind this reform is to be welcomed for the time being, but this obligation will have far-reaching consequences which will affect many services.

"Measures for the recognition of copyright are effective content recognition technologies that should be used appropriately. (Quote, Article 13, EU legislation)

The implementation of this reform means that platform providers must proactively filter content to detect copyright infringements. The sheer volume of images, videos, text, and music uploaded daily makes manual review impossible. Instead, automated methods will be used to compare content with algorithms against databases of known works.

1. Algorithms can poorly detect the difference between allowed media, such as satire and quotes, which will lead to unlawful blocking.

2. An infrastructure is needed for filtering. However, only the major providers (Facebook, Google, ..) have the necessary resources to build them. Smaller providers, on the other hand, have to buy the technology, which makes the small providers dependent on the big ones and gives them access to even more data.

3. The existing filter infrastructure can also be used very easily for other purposes, e.g. to filter certain political statements.

We the board of the AG DSN, are therefore clearly against Article 13. Its implementation will lead to a massive restriction of freedom of expression and development on the Internet. In addition, Article 13 strengthens the large Internet groups and contributes to the monopolization of content. If you want to defend yourself against Article 13 with us, we call on you to take part in the demonstration on 23rd March [3].

[1] https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Urheberrechtsreform-Der-Kampf-gegen-Artikel-13-4323738.html

[2] https://www.everbill.com/uploadfilter-artikel-13-was-ist-das/

[3] https://netzpolitik.org/2019/immer-mehr-demonstrationen-gegen-uploadfilter-schon-vor-dem-grossen-aktionstag/

As announced our general assembly took place 2018-12-05. We passed our budget for 2019 and changed our team regulation. Additionally we discussed our self-conception and our future.

The complete minutes can be found here (login needed), unfortunately both are only available in German.

In agreement with the ZIH we made the decision to abolish the traffic limit.

In order to maintain an excellent service quality for all of our members, we continue monitoring the traffic consumption. If one disturbs the network usage of other members, we will consequently disable the network access of that person.

On 2018-12-05 at 7pm the next General Assembly of AG DSN will take place at Max-Kade-Foyer, Gutzkowstraße 29-33, 01069 Dresden.

The main topics will be a second supplementary budget for 2018 and the budget for 2019.

Members of AG DSN can find the full details and agenda in the invitation, but unfortunately only in German.

To speed up the registration of all the new people arriving for the new semester, our offices at

• Wundtstraße 5
• Hochschulstraße 46

will be open all day on Monday (2018-10-01).

Our office at Borsbergstraße 34 will be open from 6 pm on.

But not only new members are welcome, we are always looking for new volunteers. If you would like to see and learn how a network for over 3000 users is run, have a look! There will be tours through our tech rooms and fresh waffles.

This weekend we celebrate the summer and semester break at Borsbergstraße 34 (7th floor). All members of AG DSN are welcome! There will be refreshments in various forms and tastes as well as a barbecue. We start at 7 pm on Saturday and are looking forward to seeing you.

Due to the new European General Data Protection Regulation we had to split up and revise our forms. Up to this point the new versions of the membership application, services form and moving notification were only available in German.

Now the services form and moving notification are available in English, too, so you do not have to use the German version anymore.

Since the membership application form is basically the written contract between our members and the AG DSN, we want its translation to be legally verified before deploying it. Thus, you can not use it to apply for membership at the moment. However, to make filling in the German version easier for you, we added the current English translation as a reference to our help sheet (on page 2): universally – for Gerokstraße – for Hochschulstraße

If you should find any mistranslations, please let us know!

Due to the expansion of the Studentenwerk owned fiber network, we could connect the dormitory Gerokstraße 38 over fiber to our core network. With this change we increased the uplink bandwidth to 10 Gbit/s, so also the members in Gerokstraße can use the full speed concurrently.

During the last general assembly we changed our constitution. On the 17th of May the Students' Council of TU Dresden accepted our changes, the minutes of that meeting will get linked here as soon as they are published.

The main changes were the removal of an inactive rule regarding voting remotely via telecommunication, and we removed the strict limit on our activities to the area of Dresden, so that we can now help the students in Tharandt and beyond as well.

After oberserving the traffic over the last few weeks we are increasing the traffic volume to 10GiB/d, starting now! The next upgrade will be discussed when our uplink capacity to the ZIH is increased.

Due to the network changes at the last weekend, the steam cache is available for members at Hochschulstraße as well now.

Once you have enabled the service in your usersuite, your downloads from Steam will be redirected to our cache. With that you reduce bandwith usage on our uplink to the university and improve the quality of services in our network.

Thanks to our latest agreement with the TU Dresden IT department (ZIH), we are happy to announce an increase of the traffic quota to 5 GiB per day (105 GiB cap) for all members. This change will take effect tonight.

In the next weeks we will assess the situation and decide upon our next actions towards further improvements.

Yesterday we elected a new executive board.

5th and 6th board members are now Lena Jurkschat and Anna Elisa Theumer, the treasurer and vice treasurer are Willi Meißner and Florian Lamprecht, the chairman and vice chairman are Friedrich Zahn and Simon Hanisch.

Furthermore a supplementary budget was passed, and changes to our constitution and regulations were made.

The changed constitution needs to get approval of the Studentenrat of TU Dresden before taking effect.

The minutes and updated documents will be made public once available.

Update 2018-05-08: The minutes are now available in the minutes section. The changes to the team regulations are online as well. The changes to our constitution have to get approval of the Studentenrat before they take effect.

On the 18th of April 2018 at 7pm a general assembly of the AG DSN will take place at our NOC on Räcknitzhöhe 35.

Topics of the meeting will be:

• Discharge and election of the executive board
• Passing a supplementary budget for 2018
• Changes to our constitution and regulations.

All details and the agenda can be found in the invitation (in German).

On the 8th of April from 12am to 8pm the performance of network and server resources might degrade.

Reason is the load test of some components, needed for future WiFi deployment.

In preparation of our next general assembly we will meet this Thursday, 2018-03-22, at 7 pm at our NOC on Räcknitzhöhe 35 to discuss the first supplementary budget for 2018.

All members are welcome to participate and voice their opinions on the usage of our funds.

We are happy to announce a new service for our members, an HTTP cache. Once you enable the service in your usersuite, downloads from the supported services (currently only Steam) are redirected to an internal server, which is caching all downloaded data. Therefore multiple downloads of the same data only need to be fetched from the internet once.

The aim of this service is to reduce bandwidth usage on our uplink to the university, and to provide an improved experience, since our local network is much more capable.

We tested the service extensively, but please be aware that it will never move beyond a beta status, due to the inherent dependencies on the cached services. If you experince problems, we can only provide limited help, and you might have to disable it again.

More technical information, a list of the supported services and know problems can be found here.

On the 14th of December 2017 at 7pm a general assembly of the AG DSN will take place at our NOC on Räcknitzhöhe 35.

Topics of the meeting will be:

• A proposal to increase the membership fee to 5,00€ per month.
• Passing the budget for 2018.

All details and the agenda can be found in the invitation (in German).

For those who pay every six month, the next payment is due now. If you are not sure if you paid already you can check your current balance after logging in to our website. You can find the details needed for the transfer on the page of the membership contribution. Please pay attention to the payment description as we need it to match the payment to your account.

If you face yourself blocked because of a missing payment don't panic. Get the necessary information at the membership contribution site, pay attention to the payment description and after you transferred the money send us the payment receipt (e.g. as a pdf, photo, screenshot) to support@agdsn.de . We do our best to process these eMails fast. It takes usually two workdays until the money is transferred to our account and we process incoming payments every evening.

Due to many students moving in, our office at Wundtstraße is opened today from 11am to 1pm and from 3pm to 8pm.

To speed up the registration of all the new people arriving for the new semester, our offices at Wundtstraße 5 and Hochschulstraße 46 will be open all day on Monday (2017-10-02).

But not only new members are welcome, we are always looking for new volunteers. If you would like to see and learn how a network for 3000 users is run, have a look! There will be tours through our tech rooms and fresh waffles.

From the 1st of October we will be running the network of Gret-Palucca-Straße 11.

Since the student house will not yet be inhabitable by then, new tenants will have to move into GPS 9 temporarily. The Studentenwerk will no longer provide new connections at GPS 9, but we have taken measures to ensure network access for our members at GPS 9, anyhow.

So, if you are a future tenant of GPS 11:

1. Sign up for membership:

   • Read about the registration process.
   • Fill the form twice, put in your future GPS 11 address, sign it, hand it in.

2. Connect to our network at GPS 9.

3. Move into GPS 11 - no further action required, if gave us the correct GPS 11 room on the form.

Existing GPS 9 tenants can continue to use their Stutentenwerk network connection until they move into GPS 11. Once you live there, you will have to sign up with us or some commercial provider.

We plan to outfit GPS 11 with the new network hardware on October 19th. If you are interested in our volunteers work and would like to help, get in touch or just come over!

On the 14th of June the Studentenwerk Dresden invites you to a Summer Party at Wundtstraße.

Besides food and drinks there will be live music, sports, and a movie screening at KiK.

Like the bicycle diy-workshop Rad i.O. we will open our doors at Wundtstraße 5, offering waffles and guided tours. So if you want to know how the internet works, why our maintenance happens at strange times, or what we do with your membership contributions, feel free to visit us!

You can find the facebook event here, further information is available on the Studentenwerk website.

Due to the holiday there will be no office hours on 2017-05-25. You can always reach us via mail or the contact form.

On Thursday May 18th our offices in Borsbergstrasse and Wundtstrasse will be closed due to an internal event. The office at Hochschulstrasse 46 (located in the basement) is going to open as usual and service all members of the AG DSN.

As announced our general assembly took place 2017-04-19. A new executive board has been elected, and the divisions Gerokstraße, Hochschulstraße, Wundtstraße and Zeunerstraße have been superseded by our new centralised teams.

The complete minutes including the report of the old executive board can be found here, unfortunately both are only available in German.

Am 19.04.2017 um 20 Uhr findet die nächste Vollversammlung der AG DSN im NOC auf der Räcknitzhöhe 35 statt.

Themen der Sitzung sind laut Einladung:

• Umstrukturierung innerhalb der AG DSN
• Vorstandswahlen

Details zur Sitzung inklusive der Tagesordnung sind in der Einladung zu finden.

Am 11.01.2017 um 20 Uhr findet die nächste Vollversammlung der AG DSN im NOC auf der Räcknitzhöhe 35 statt.

Themen der Sitzung sind laut Einladung:

• Vorstellung von möglichen Kandidaten für die nächsten Vorstandswahlen
• Beschluss des Haushaltsplans für 2017

Details zur Sitzung inklusive der Tagesordnung sind in der Einladung zu finden.

On the 3rd of December, 6pm we invite all members of Borsberg- and Gerokstraße to have a mulled wine with us at Borsbergstraße 34. We will be on the balcony near our office on the 7th floor.

Hiermit lädt der Vorstand der Sektion Wundtstrasse alle Mitglieder und Gäste zur Sektionssitzung-und versammlung am 12.12.2016 um 21:00 Uhr, ins NOC: Räcknitzhöhe 35, 01217 Dresden, ein.

Die vorläufigen Tagesordnungen:

Tagesordnung der Sektionssitzung

• Diskussion der Tagesordnung
• Überprüfung des Protokolls und der gefassten Beschlüsse, Bestätigung der letzten Protokolle (22.11.2016)
• Sonstiges

Tagesordnung der Sektionsversammlung

• Organisatorisches
  • Diskussion der Tagesordnung
  • Abstimmungsfähigkeit
• Überprüfung des Protokolls und der gefassten Beschlüsse, Bestätigung der letzten Protokolle: 22.11.2016
• Antrag auf die Wahl der lediglich benötigten Sektionsbeauftragten nach Satzung §14 Abs. 3 Satz 1
• Entlastung des alten Geschäftsführung
• Wahl eines neuen Geschäftsführung
  • Kandidaten
  • Wahl
• Sonstiges

On the 9th of November 2016 our general assembly adopted a new constitution. The constitution was approved by the Studentenrat of TU Dresden yesterday and therefore it is binding from now on.

A summary of the changes is listed below:

• The termination of passive and active membership is standardized.
• Team meetings can appoint active members.
• Some inconsistencies have been removed.
• Active members can get a reimbursement limited to the amount of the membership contribution.

We changed our finance regulation at the general assembly on 09/27/2016.

There are two important differences:

• There is a new Sentence at §2 paragraph 2. It regulate the fee if you terminate your membership before the end of a month. For you is important that you announce your departure before the end of the month.
• At §2 we add a new paragraph 5. It regulate the repayment of membership fees. You have time period of 31 days now to demand the repayment of overpaid fees.

This changes were made to reduce our additional work so that we can concentrate at more important things (e.g. your support-mails and the maintenance of the network).

You can find the full wording at the finance regulation. This can also be found at the top navigation at Legal Aspects → Finance constitutions.

Hiermit lädt der Vorstand der Sektion Wundtstrasse alle Mitglieder und Gäste zur Sektionssitzung und -versammlung am 22.11.2016 um 20:30 Uhr, ins NOC: Räcknitzhöhe 35, 01217 Dresden, ein.

Die vorläufigen Tagesordnungen:

Tagesordnung der Sektionssitzung

• Diskussion der Tagesordnung
• Überprüfung des Protokolls und der gefassten Beschlüsse, Bestätigung der letzten Protokolle (25.05.2016, 01.06.2016, 15.06.2016, 13.07.2016, 02.09.2016, 14.09.2016, 12.10.2016)
• Reminder auflösen/abgeben
• Sonstiges

Tagesordnung der Sektionsversammlung

• Organisatorisches
  • Diskussion der Tagesordnung
  • Abstimmungsfähigkeit
• Überprüfung des Protokolls und der gefassten Beschlüsse, Bestätigung der letzten Protokolle: 25.05.2016
• Antrag auf die Wahl der lediglich benötigten Sektionsbeauftragten nach Satzung §14 Abs. 3 Satz 1
• Entlastung des alten Geschäftsführers
• Wahl eines neuen Geschäftsführers
  • Kandidaten
  • Wahl
• Sonstiges

Am 09.11.2016 um 20 Uhr findet die nächste Vollversammlung der AG DSN im NOC auf der Räcknitzhöhe 35 statt.

Die Sitzung ist notwendig, da die letzte Vollversammlung leider aus formalen Gründen nicht in der Lage war, die Satzung zu ändern.

Details der Sitzung inklusive der Tagesordnung sind in der Einladung zu finden.

Am 12.10.2016 um 20 Uhr findet die nächste Vollversammlung der AG DSN im NOC auf der Räcknitzhöhe 35 statt.

Details der Sitzung inklusive der Tagesordnung sind in der Einladung zu finden.

To speed up the registering of all the new people arriving for the new semester, our offices at Wundtstraße 5 and Hochschulstraße 46 will be open all day on Saturday (2016-10-01).

But not only new members are welcome, we are always looking for new volunteers. f you would like to see and learn how a network for 3000 users is run, have a look! There will be tours through our tech rooms and waffles at Wundtstraße.

And here some buzzwords describing our current projects: Fibres, OSPF, IPv6, WiFi, 80 GHz radio, virtualization, Docker, Python, online registration.

We are currently experiencing some problems with the stability and speed of our network.

We are trying our best to get into contact with the ZIH (TUD) for a quick solution.

Update: There was a problem with the connection from the ZIH between Weberbau and Trefftzbau. It should be fixed since friday, 2016-09-09.

Am 17.08.2016 um 20 Uhr findet die nächste Vollversammlung im NOC auf der Räcknitzhöhe 35 statt. Die geplante Sitzungsdauer ist 2h.

Tagesordnung

1. Begrüßung und Formalia
2. Abwahl des stellvertretenden Schatzmeisters Kevin Hildebrandt
3. Für den Fall einer erfolgreichen Abwahl die Nachwahl des Vorstandspostens stellvertretender Schatzmeister
4. Handlungsempfehlung an den Vorstand über eine mögliche, außerordentliche Mitgliedschaftsbeendigung von Kevin Hildebrandt
5. Sonstiges

Im Anschluss der Vollversammlung wird eine Vorstandssitzung abgehalten.

Kevin Hildebrandt wird eingeladen, sowohl an der Vollversammlung als auch an der Vorstandssitzung teilzuhaben.

Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day. The day on which the brave warriors in the background are thanked. If a sysadmins does his job right you won't even notice that he is working. Everyday sysadmins are keeping the it infrastructure up and running. Your computer is working, your printer is jamm-free and the internet is stable. That's because you got an awesome sysadmin.

In the AG we have many people working unsalaried in this field and especially keeping the network up. Therefore, it is important to us to celebrate this day, not only for our admins but for all men and women who ensure that everything works.

So show your appreciation and buy your local admins from the student residencies, at university or work a drink or thank them. They deserve some appreciation for keeping the systems running in the background.

Sys Admins - Because even developer need hereos!

Am 08.06.2016 um 20 Uhr findet die nächste Vollversammlung im NOC in der Räcknitzhöhe 35 statt. Die geplante Sitzungsdauer ist 3h.

Tagesordnung

1. Begrüßung und Formalia
2. Änderung der Teamordnung
   • Streichen der Finanzierung von Teams (§ 7) aus der Teamordnung
   • Streichen der Einschränkung für stellvertretende Teamsprecher Vorstandsposten zu bekleiden (§6 Abs. 7)
3. Wahl des Vorstands
4. Entlastung des alten Vorstands
5. Nachtragshaushalt
6. Sonstiges
   • Meinungsaustausch Beitragsbefreiung für Mitglieder

Nach aktuellem Stand stellen sich (unverbindlich) folgende Personen zur Wahl:

• Vorstandsvorsitzender: Felix Kluge
• Stellvertretender Vorstandsvorsitzender: Jan Braje
• Schatzmeister: Denni Keller
• Stellvertretender Schatzmeister: Kevin Hildebrandt
• Fünftes Vorstandsmitglied: Tobias Baumann
• Sechstes Vorstandsmitglied: Sebastian Trebbin

Again this semester the AG DSN will host at the Hochschulstraße a BBQ for their Members there.

It will take place on the 10th May 2016 at 6pm in front of the Club 11.

We will provide you like always with grilled food and alcoholic beverages. Furthermore you have a chance to inform yourself what we do.

This semester is the first time held a scavenger hunt in which you can win great prizes, and at the same time get to know the AG more closely.

You can find the vouchers from today in your mailboxes at Hochschulstraße.

On our Facebook Page you can find further information.

Since the CEO of the division Wundtstraße stepped back, the position has to be filled again. Therefore, we will hold a division assembly on May 25th, 20:30 in our NOC on the Räcknitzhöhe. The Agenda only covers the election of the CEO.

Everybody is invited to join.

NOC: Räcknitzhöhe 35, 01217 Dresden

Auf der gestrigen Sektionsversammlung haben wir eine neue Ergänzungssatzung und eine neue Netzordnung verabschiedet. Die Beitragsordnung der AG DSN ist nun auch in unserer Satzung verankert. Die aktualisierten Dokumente findet ihr unter Rechtliches.

On April 27, 2016 at 8pm we have our next general assembly in our Räcknitzhöhe office.

We will discuss the merger of our Borsbergstraße, Gerokstraße, Wundtstraße and Zeunerstraße divisions and decide on changes of our constitution.

More details can be found in the official invitation (German only).

On Wednesday, April 20th 2016, the division Wundtstraße will hold an assembly at the NOC in the “Universa-Haus” on the Räcknitzhöhe. A new treasurer needs to be elected and the division's membership fee regulation requires revision due to being superseded by the general membership fee regulation of the AG DSN.

To speed up the registering of all the new people arriving at Borsbergstraße, Wundtstraße and Zellescher Weg, our office at Wundtstraße 5 will be open on Friday (2016-04-01) from 10am to 6pm.

But not only new members are welcome, we are always looking for new volunteers. If you would like to see and learn how a network for 3000 users is run, have a look!

Am 13.04.2016 findet ab 20 Uhr eine außerordentliche Sektionsversammlung statt, um unter anderem die neue Beitragsordnung in unserer Sektionssatzung zu verankern.

Wir werden am 30.3. um 20:00 Uhr einen Spieleabend bei uns im NOC veranstalten.

Wir möchten gerne jedes Mitglied der AG DSN (und gerne auch alle anderen interessierten Studenten) einladen zu kommen. Spielt mit und lernt uns besser kennen :)

NOC: Räcknitzhöhe 35, 01217 Dresden

According to the plenary meeting on March 9th, a new, uniform finance regulation will take effect from April 1st 2016. Beforehand, amount and mode of the contributions differed depending on the local division of the AG DSN.

Summary: The simplest method for you to pay is to transfer 21€ to the respective bank account at the beginning of each semester.

Details:

• Contributions are due monthly
• The contributions are due the last day of each month
• If the membership starts after the 14th of a month, the contribution for this month is omitted
• The contribution amount is 3.50€, which is equivalent to 21€ per semester

The main motivation for this change is to make the contributions more uniform and fair. Members who stay only for a few months will only have to pay for the time they are actually using the network, no registration fee is due anymore.

Furthermore we are working hard to establish the same high-quality (gigabit to each room) network everywhere, especially at the formerly cheaper Gerok-, Borsberg- and Zeunerstraße. We have already put substantial effort into these upgrades.

Finally, uniform regulations will help us to save on time spent on administrative tasks, so that we can provide faster responses on support inquiries and work more on technical improvements.

You can find the full regulation here, please feel free to contact us.

We are inviting all our members to our plenary meeting. Meeting location will be our new office: NOC (Räcknitzhöhe 35, 01217 Dresden) Time: 19:00

You can see the agenda here.

Hey technophiles, finally Germany has managed to get into the FTTH Council rankings for the first time. You can read more about what this means and how the development of fibre optic infrastructure is going in this article.

Fun Fact: We have been using fiber optics in our student halls now for years ;)

Dear Members,

The meetings of divisions Hochschulstraße and Wundtstraße / Zellescher Weg will for once be held commonly in the new, although unfinished, Network Operations Center (Räcknitzhöhe 35, 01217 Dresden).

They will start no later than 8:30PM.

Your AG DSN

Dear members,

Based on the decision of our December 9th Sektionsversammlung, the division Wundtstraße now has a new additional constitution which you can access here. This does not imply notable changes for you. The intention of the new constitution was to simplify juristical concerns, since all relevant things are covered by our general constitution

Your AG DSN.

Tonight at 7pm will be the last office hours for this year in our office division Wundtstraße/Zellescher Weg. There will be no office hours during the holidays, the next one will be on the 4th of January. If you need support with your network connection, write us using the contact form.

We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new Year!

On 09.12.2015 at 8:30pm the assembly of Sektion Wundtstraße will take place at Wundtstraße 5 in the basement. Main goal is the simplification of our constitution.

On 2015-11-25 at 8pm our general assembly will take place in the Max-Kade-Foyer at dormitory Gutzkowstraße. We will discuss and decide on changes in our constitution, creating new organizational units ("teams") and our current and future legal standing. More details are given in the official invitation (German only).

On wednesday, the 11th of November 2015, at 8:30 pm the annual elections for division Wundtstraße will take place in the Partykeller at Wundtstraße 5. All members of AG DSN are welcome.

To speed up the registering of all the new people arriving at Borsbergstraße, Gerokstraße, Wundtstraße and Zellescher Weg, our offices at Wundtstraße 5 and Borsbergstraße 34 will be open on thursday (2015-10-01) from 9 am to 8 pm.

But not only new members are welcome, we are always looking for new volunteers. If you would like to see and learn how a network for 3000 users is run, have a look! There will be tours through our tech rooms.

Liebe Mitglieder,

am 08.07.2015, 19:00 findet die Nutzerversammlung in der Zeunerstraße statt. Alle Internetnutzer des Wohnheimes sind herzlich eingeladen vorbeizuschauen! Für das leibliche Wohl ist gesorgt.

Eure AG DSN