diff --git a/Client/src/main/java/de/com/baseband/client/BaseBand.java b/Client/src/main/java/de/com/baseband/client/BaseBand.java
index 64cc3fd..3e13919 100644
--- a/Client/src/main/java/de/com/baseband/client/BaseBand.java
+++ b/Client/src/main/java/de/com/baseband/client/BaseBand.java
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import de.com.baseband.client.mixin.MixinProxy;
 import de.com.baseband.client.registry.Configuration;
 import de.com.baseband.client.registry.Updater;
 import de.com.baseband.client.util.interact.Chat;
-import de.com.baseband.client.util.net.WebServiceClient;
+import de.com.baseband.client.util.net.WebServiceClient2;
 import de.com.baseband.client.util.render.NotificationRender;
 import de.com.baseband.prod.LoadHandler;
 import de.tudbut.tools.Lock;
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ public class BaseBand {
     public static final EventBus EVENT_BUS = new EventBus(Throwable::printStackTrace);
     public static final RemoteEventBus REMOTE_EVENT_BUS = new RemoteEventBus();
     public static final StaticEventHandler STATIC_EVENT_HANDLER = new StaticEventHandler();
+    public static final WebServiceClient2 wsc2 = new WebServiceClient2();
     public static boolean enabled = true;
     public static boolean finishedDisabling = false;
     public static Minecraft mc;
@@ -80,7 +81,6 @@ public class BaseBand {
             Lock lock = new Lock();
             while (enabled) {
                 lock.lock(1000);
-                WebServiceClient.connect();
                 for (Updater updater : Configuration.updaters) {
                     updater.poll();
                 }
@@ -96,6 +96,11 @@ public class BaseBand {
             LOGGER.info("Unloaded.");
         }, "Async Config Updater").start();
 
+        LOGGER.info("Starting up WSC2...");
+
+        wsc2.start();
+        wsc2.lock.waitHere();
+
         LOGGER.info("Initialized.");
     }
 
diff --git a/Client/src/main/java/de/com/baseband/client/util/net/WebServiceClient2.java b/Client/src/main/java/de/com/baseband/client/util/net/WebServiceClient2.java
index 0ca3840..4e3ce80 100644
--- a/Client/src/main/java/de/com/baseband/client/util/net/WebServiceClient2.java
+++ b/Client/src/main/java/de/com/baseband/client/util/net/WebServiceClient2.java
@@ -1,6 +1,75 @@
 package de.com.baseband.client.util.net;
 
-public class WebServiceClient2 {
+import de.com.baseband.client.BaseBand;
+import de.com.baseband.client.util.data.GitHash;
+import de.com.baseband.prod.LoadHandler;
+import de.tudbut.parsing.JSON;
+import de.tudbut.parsing.TCN;
+import de.tudbut.tools.Lock;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.net.MalformedURLException;
+import java.net.URL;
+
+public class WebServiceClient2 extends Thread {
     // TODO make
     // -> https://downloads.baseband.com.de
+
+    BufferedReader connection;
+    public Lock lock = new Lock();
+    boolean outdated = false;
+
+    public WebServiceClient2() {
+        try {
+            connection = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new URL("https://downloads.baseband.com.de/listen").openStream()));
+            lock.lock();
+        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            BaseBand.LOGGER.fatal("Cannot connect to WSC2.");
+            BaseBand.shutdown();
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void run() {
+        while (true) {
+            try {
+                while (true) {
+                    String line = connection.readLine();
+
+                    TCN event = JSON.read(line);
+                    switch (event.getString("event-kind")) {
+                        case "init":
+                            BaseBand.notify("Connected to WSC2.");
+                            lock.unlock();
+                            break;
+                        case "refresh:1.12.2":
+                            TCN branch = event.getSub("data").getSub(LoadHandler.data.getString("branch"));
+                            if (branch != null) {
+                                if (!branch.getString("commit").equals(GitHash.GIT_HASH) && !outdated) {
+                                    outdated = true;
+                                    BaseBand.notifyAll("§d§lBaseBand has updated. To update, restart Minecraft.", 40000);
+                                }
+                            }
+                            break;
+                        case "refresh:ednieva":
+                            break;
+                        default:
+                            BaseBand.notify("Incompatible WSC2 event received: " + event.getString("event-kind") + ". Please report this.");
+                            break;
+                    }
+                }
+            } catch (Exception e) {
+                connection = null;
+                BaseBand.LOGGER.info("WSC2 disconnected.");
+                lock.lock(10000);
+                lock.waitHere();
+                try {
+                    connection = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new URL("https://downloads.baseband.com.de/listen").openStream()));
+                } catch (IOException ex) {}
+            }
+        }
+    }
 }