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Ubiquiti NanoStation Nsm5-Flash Notes

3 - Hardware & Firmware Ubiquiti

We have been moving towards MikroTik OmniTik as our mesh device. Before using a NanoStation, you ...

Updated 4 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

Ubiquiti Unifi-Ap

3 - Hardware & Firmware Ubiquiti

We are using more UNIFI access points on installs these days. These devices are very frustrating ...

Updated 4 months ago by Andy

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 4 months ago by James

MikroTik Specifics

3 - Hardware & Firmware Mikrotik

Mikrotik routers have a few interesting things to note in order to understand and use them well. ...

Updated 4 months ago by Andy

MikroTik PowerBox Pro

3 - Hardware & Firmware Mikrotik

The PowerBox Pro is an outdoor five gigabit ethernet port router with PoE output on four ports. S...

Updated 4 months ago by Andy

MikroTik NetPower 15FR

3 - Hardware & Firmware Mikrotik

The NetPower 15FR is an outdoor 16 ethernet ports switch with PoE output on one port. Since the d...

Updated 4 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

Ubiquiti EdgePoint R6

3 - Hardware & Firmware Ubiquiti

The EP-R6 is an outdoor rooftop switch/router with 6 ports (5 GigE, 1 SFP). It supports PoE, but ...

Updated 4 months ago by Daniel Heredia

Ubiquiti LTU

3 - Hardware & Firmware Ubiquiti

Ubiquiti has a new "technology" which is the successor to AirMax , called LTU. (more about AirMax...

Updated 4 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

Ubiquiti Firmware

3 - Hardware & Firmware Firmware

Ubiquiti firmware has some buggy versions that need to be avoided. In general never use a ".0" re...

Updated 4 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

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 4 months ago by Daniel Heredia

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 4 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

Network Number

5 - Networking

The network number assignment tool has been removed from this page as it didn't work. Please see ...

Updated 4 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

Taking Panorama Photos

2 - Install & Maintenance Guides Install Planning and Surveys

A direct line of sight to a Supernode or hub node is required to connect to NYC Mesh. To help t...

Updated 4 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

Omni PoE Diagram

2 - Install & Maintenance Guides

Updated 4 months ago by James

Siklu Alignment

2 - Install & Maintenance Guides

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

Updated 4 months ago by Marg Suarez

Safety

2 - Install & Maintenance Guides

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

Updated 4 months 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 4 months ago by Willard Nilges

Fiber to the Apartment

2 - Install & Maintenance Guides Fiber Optics

The first step is to screw the ONT into the wall in a convenient place using drywall achors. The ...

Updated 4 months ago by Andy

Fiber Splicing Tutorial

2 - Install & Maintenance Guides Fiber Optics

1. Intro These instructions assume only the required tools are used, and minimal precautions tak...

Updated 4 months ago by James

Nyc Mesh Fiber Background And Splicing Guide

2 - Install & Maintenance Guides Fiber Optics

NYC Mesh Fiber Background and Splicing Guide ​ These are notes collected by @JohnB from the fibe...

Updated 4 months ago by Andy