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Window Drilling Guide

2 - Install & Maintenance Guides Physical Installation

All of our installs usually require getting a cable from the outside to the inside of a building ...

Updated 3 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

Ubiquiti Nanostation M5

3 - Hardware & Firmware Ubiquiti

The NanoStation M5 is a workhorse of mesh networks. There are two versions XM (pre 2016) and XW. ...

Updated 3 months ago by Olivier

Hubs

5 - Networking

Hubs are nodes that provide connectivity for other surrounding nodes in the NYC Mesh network. Th...

Updated 4 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

Mikrotik Netpower 16P / Netpower Lite 8P

3 - Hardware & Firmware Mikrotik

Mikrotik makes two outdoor POE switches that we often use for powering rooftop antennas. These ar...

Updated 4 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

Ubiquiti GPON Fiber OLT / ONUs

3 - Hardware & Firmware Ubiquiti

This article is a work in progress Fiber network overview (Maybe link to main fiber page)   G...

Updated 4 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

EdgeRouter EdgePoint Bootloader Firmware Update

3 - Hardware & Firmware Ubiquiti

Written by JohnB, 2024-10 Updating EdgePoint R6 units from v2.0.9-hotfix7 to v3.0.0-rc9 Updatin...

Updated 4 months ago by johnb

Network Time Protocol (NTP)

5 - Networking

NTP Infrastructure History: Over the years it has been evolving, changing. We used to use outsid...

Updated 4 months ago by Camille

Frequently Asked Questions

1 - Introduction

-About NYC Mesh- Why is NYC Mesh building a community network? Below are just a few of the re...

Updated 5 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

Overview

5 - Networking

NYC Mesh is a mesh network.To understand a bit more about our Mesh network design concepts, pleas...

Updated 5 months ago by Matthew Boyd

Status Page

6 - Services & Software

https://status.nycmesh.net is a status page for the mesh. Ask to be added to #status-page to crea...

Updated 5 months ago by Willard Nilges

Millimeter Wave Registration

2 - Install & Maintenance Guides Siklu Installation

Background The FCC defines Millimeter Wave radios as those that transmit on frequencies between ...

Updated 5 months ago by Daniel Heredia

Siklu Alignment

2 - Install & Maintenance Guides Siklu Installation

Alignment Process Under Construction Link Budget Calculator The Siklu Link Budget Calculator p...

Updated 5 months ago by Marg Suarez

Peering

5 - Networking

NYC Mesh operates AS395853 Our peering Policy is Yes Please contact us to peer with our network...

Updated 5 months ago by Brian Hall

Other Community Networks

1 - Introduction

We aren't the only name in town when it comes to community networks. Other people are building co...

Updated 5 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

Runbook: Manually Editing Terraform State

6 - Services & Software Terraform

Sometimes, you might need to do some surgery on our terraform scripts. This can happen when a pro...

Updated 5 months ago by Willard Nilges

Kubernetes Clusters

6 - Services & Software Kubernetes

This page is a draft We have several Kubernetes clusters at the Mesh: dev3 (SN3) VM: meshd...

Updated 6 months ago by Daniel Heredia

New Install Notifier Slack App

6 - Services & Software

"New Install Notifier is a Slack Bolt app that connects to NYC Mesh's MeshDB via webhook and au...

Updated 6 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

Member Connection Troubleshooting Guide

1 - Introduction

Introduction: This guide is intended to help mesh members troubleshoot their own NYC Mesh connec...

Updated 6 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

NYC Mesh Merch

4 - Organization & Mission

This page is still under development. Photos and items will be available soon! NYC Mesh has a nu...

Updated 6 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

Juniper DHCP Pool, LAG/LACP/AE/Bond, VLAN

5 - Networking

165 Broome single-port network switch config with new DHCP Pool test change Done by JohnB on 202...

Updated 7 months ago by johnb