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Juniper Quick Start Guide (Mikrotik vs Juniper)

2 - Install & Maintenance Guides

This guide is intended to be a quick start guide to working with Juniper routers. It is intended ...

Updated 1 month ago by Daniel Heredia

Safety

2 - Install & Maintenance Guides

Growing the mesh is important, but so is staying safe to install more nodes. These are general sa...

Updated 1 month ago by James

Query

2 - Install & Maintenance Guides

This page works best in incognito/private window mode! This is for installers to query our instal...

Updated 1 month ago by Willard Nilges

Common Issues and How to Avoid Them

2 - Install & Maintenance Guides

Alignment and wind We've had many antennas lose alignment in the wind. There's a few simple thin...

Updated 1 month ago by Lydon Thorpe

Link NYC Kiosk (Kiosk Node)

2 - Install & Maintenance Guides

There are currently ongoing discussions with LinkNYC with the goal of having a deeper and more pe...

Updated 1 month ago by Lydon Thorpe

Etiquette

2 - Install & Maintenance Guides

As a volunteer installer, you are the public face of NYC Mesh! Courtesy, respect, friendliness an...

Updated 1 month ago by Lydon Thorpe

Install Tools and Equipment

2 - Install & Maintenance Guides

To connect to NYC Mesh, you will need to install wireless networking equipment on a rooftop or ou...

Updated 1 month ago by Lydon Thorpe

Crimping

2 - Install & Maintenance Guides

Here are some helpful videos on crimping. Like nearly everyone we use the T-568B standard Video ...

Updated 1 month ago by Andy

Chromebook Developer Mode (Getting a terminal)

2 - Install & Maintenance Guides

Chromebooks are good for installs as they are cheap and all you need is a browser and a terminal ...

Updated 1 month ago by Lydon Thorpe

MikroTik Netinstall Recovery

2 - Install & Maintenance Guides

How to resurrect a bootlooping OmniTIK with netinstall Symptoms OmniTIK boots up but continuall...

Updated 1 month ago by James

DIY Install Overview

2 - Install & Maintenance Guides

For a DIY ("do it yourself") install we recommend joining our Slack group where you can chat with...

Updated 1 month ago by James

Typical Install Diagrams

2 - Install & Maintenance Guides

The purpose of these diagrams are to give a technical overview of the routing of a typical mesh n...

Updated 1 month ago by scott145

Software services list

6 - Services & Software

Incomplete list - add your service! Name Purpose Link Active? Maintained by Suppo...

Updated 1 month ago by Lydon Thorpe

10-69-Net-Network

5 - Networking

The 10-69 network is used to connect nodes on NYC Mesh. Every mesh router at every node on the me...

Updated 1 month ago by Matthew Boyd

VPN - L2TP/IPsec

5 - Networking Virtual Private Network (VPN)

L2TP/IPSec is a common general-purpose VPN protocol that work with most platforms. For example, c...

Updated 1 month ago by Olivier

WireGuard VPN Setup Guide

5 - Networking Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Originally written by JohnB in 2024-09 This is an attempt to document the setup process and th...

Updated 1 month ago by Matthew Boyd

Join Records

6 - Services & Software MeshDB

View join records that need to be replayed from the past week https://db.nycmesh.net/join-record...

Updated 1 month ago by Willard Nilges

MikroTik OmniTik 5 POE AC

3 - Hardware & Firmware Mikrotik

The Omnitik 5ac is an outdoor switch/router with a built-in 5Ghz 802.11ac access point, omnidirec...

Updated 1 month ago by Lydon Thorpe

Mikrotik SXTsq 5 ac

3 - Hardware & Firmware Mikrotik

The SXTsq 5 ac is a small client access antenna that is 802.11 standards compliant antenna (and a...

Updated 1 month ago by Lydon Thorpe

DNS - Beta

5 - Networking

This page includes descriptions of configurations that can be made after the DNS servers at SN1 a...

Updated 2 months ago by James