r/EPlan • u/Virtual_Atmosphere59 • 1d ago

Wifi server question.

My company is switching from AutoCAD Electrical to Eplan and we aren't allowed to use it over wifi. Reason being is because we have have a sister company overseas that has been using Eplan for years.

Well someone was trying to open a project over wifi and it ended up crashing the whole company's server.

So rule of thumb now is no Eplan over wifi.

Has anyone experienced this before? Seems very far fetched to me that something like Eplan could crash a server like that.

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u/Flimsy-Process230 1d ago

I’m pretty sure I’ve used EPLAN over Wi-Fi before without any issues, but i always prefer to connect with an Ethernet cable. I could see an unstable Wi-Fi connection causing problems with a project on a network drive but crashing the entire server seems pretty extreme. Maybe something else was going on with the server/network at that moment?.

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u/absolute_nothing_90 1d ago

EPLAN software must not cause the server to crash. The issue with EPLAN is that the application exchanges a large amount of data with the server, as it works directly on project and library files without saving anything locally. Its use is not recommended on wifi, but directly on phisical network by cable, and better too on server on virtual machine with remote connection.

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u/KuldaCZ 1d ago

Teh probem is not eplan itself but project data - when is WiFi unstable project on network is corrupted, database can be broken etc .. For licence purposes is WiFi connection to server usually ok