Winterkongress 2020 - NOC

Post Winterkongress 2020 stats

Infrastructure

  • 6 POE Switches
  • 12 Access Points
  • 24 Port Core Switch POE
  • 1 PFSense Firewall
  • 3 Media Converters and various optics (for connecting the two buildings via yolo-link)
  • Raspberry PI & POE-Hat (for DNS Server)
  • Server homed at CommunityRack.org for Livestream
  • 2 networks one public and one for device management

Stats

  • Uplink: 1Gbps
  • Peak Inbound 692 Mpbs (somehow traffic has been spikey ;) )
  • Peak Outbound 236 Mbps
  • Average Inbound 10.38 Mbps
  • Average Outbound 14.59 Mbps
  • Stream Server Total Traffic : 130GB
  • Max Concurrent WiFi Devices: 130

Hi humans at Winterkongress 2020

Here you find Information around the Network Infrastructure at Winterkongress

Wireless 📶

SSID: Winterkongress The network is open to everyone - please encrypt your own traffic You'll receive a public IPv4 and IPv6 IP address - It's 2020 - We say no to NATed networks

There is an very limited amount of wired network ports available - Get in touch with NOC (Network Operations Center) if you need wired internet access. And bring your own cable :-)

DNS Servers 💻

We operate a Pi-Hole on IP 45.14.60.2 and 2a0e:b581::2 - If you want to enjoy Ad and Tracking free Internet you can use this as your DNS Server As good use of resources is important to us we run this on a Raspberry Pi 4. The Pi-Hole uses DNS.watch as upstream DNS.

Don't know how to change DNS servers? Check the guides here: https://dns.watch/how-to

DNS over TLS / DNS over HTTPS

Alternatively Digitale Gesellschaft provides a DNS over HTTPS / DNS over TLS resolvers:

Dashboard 📊

For some fancy graphs of the Winterkongress network: We have a Dashboard.

USE MOAR BANDWITH!!!!

Streaming 📹

One way to produce moar traffic: Video streaming.

Chat 📖

You'll find us on Matrix in #winterkongress:matrix.org.

Supporters 💚

This would not be possible without hours of planning and a lot of people supporting us.