Skip to main content

Recently Updated Pages

Americorps Vista Volunteer Program

Organization & Mission

Overview Wikipedia: "AmeriCorps VISTA is a national service program designed to alleviate povert...

Updated 3 months ago by Marg Suarez

Member Connection Troubleshooting

Introduction

First step: Make sure all the devices are powered on and connected properly. You may have two pow...

Updated 3 months ago by Marg Suarez

Overview

Introduction

NYC Mesh is a community network. This means that city residents take it upon themselves to mainta...

Updated 3 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

MikroTik Firmware

Hardware & Firmware Firmware

MikroTik RouterOS v6 firmware is generally stable. We are currently using 6.49.11 (some run 6.49....

Updated 3 months ago by Marg Suarez

Documents

Organization & Mission

NYC Mesh Inc. EIN: 84-2616395 In the interest of transparency, NYC Mesh will compile and publish...

Updated 3 months ago by Andy

Media Ideas

Services & Software Website

[add your photo, graphic, video, etc. ideas here!]

Updated 3 months ago by Andy

TP-Link Indoor Router

Hardware & Firmware Hardware

Some Archer A6/7 models have a function that disables the WiFi if the WPS button on the back of t...

Updated 3 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

Volunteer Slack Channels

Introduction

A list of possible volunteer roles is available on the website volunteer page. Our Slack has a n...

Updated 3 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

MikroTik NetPower 15FR

Hardware & Firmware Hardware

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

Updated 3 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

Chromebooks

Install & Maintenance Guides

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

Updated 3 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

Ubiquiti Firmware

Hardware & Firmware Firmware

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

Updated 3 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

Fiber Safety

Install & Maintenance Guides

1. Intro 1.1 Description Although fiber is a relatively safe material to work with, there are s...

Updated 3 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

Equipment

Install & Maintenance Guides

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

Updated 3 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

Rules and Standards

Networking OSPF

As OSPF has some challenges in deployment outside of a datacenter environment, we will need to al...

Updated 3 months ago by Andy

Point-to-Point Configuration

Networking OSPF

Note: This guide contains in-depth parameters on Layer 2 and 3 configurations. This guide is not ...

Updated 3 months ago by Daniel Heredia

Mesh Glossary

Introduction

Telecommunications, computing, and internetworking technologies often have an enormous amount of ...

Updated 3 months ago by Andy

VPN - L2TP/IPsec Request

Networking

NYC Mesh maintains some common VPN infrastructure for use by active mesh members. Please feel fre...

Updated 3 months ago by Andy

Supernode-Architecture

Networking

Goals of this documents Supernode routing / goals Supernode sample architectures Plan to get us ...

Updated 3 months ago by Willard Nilges

Non-Penetrating Roof Mounts/Stands

Install & Maintenance Guides

EZ NP-72-200 (Amazon): Model: EZ NP-72-200 Manufacturer: Easy-Up Link: Amazon...

Updated 4 months ago by Lydon Thorpe

Juniper Quick Start Guide (Mikrotik vs Juniper)

Hardware & Firmware Firmware

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