New York City’s broken wireless network is undergoing testing and is expected back online within days, the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications said Thursday afternoon.

The Wi-Fi network, known as “NYCWiN,” crashed on Saturday following a failure to upgrade its software ahead of a long-expected “rollover event” similar to the Y2K bug.

“We are testing the equipment right now and expect to have NYCWiN back up this weekend,” DoITT spokeswoman Stephanie Raphael said in an email statement.

The shutdown came despite a warning issued last year by the Department of Homeland Security and media reports last month by The Post and other outlets.

DoITT pays the Northrop Grumman Corp. about $40 million a year to operate the network, which cost $500 million to build.

Earlier Thursday, Mayor de Blasio wouldn’t assign blame for the embarrassing snafu, saying, “We have to figure out why this happened. … and we’ll see what we have to do differently.”

But de Blasio absolved himself of any responsibility for the shutdown, which cut remote access to the city’s traffic lights and shut down some traffic cameras and NYPD license-plate readers.

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