Recent content by jumbotron

not sure but we had pigeons three years in a row. Not sure if they were the same pair. We are in a rural seaside town. We do have a lot around as we have woods at the bottom of the street so more than average bird life.

you got lucky (for whatever reason). We didn't and it was money well spent. Readers of this thread can, as with all insurances, make up their own minds as to whether they want to pay in advance or retrospectively.

well rebooting is overkill. It's prob windows doing powersvaing on the network card and if turning that off doesn't prevent it, then forcing a clean reconnect in terminal would prevent the need to reboot. You could easily automate that with a simple python script you double click on for convenience.

would it worth trying a static IP?

def get mesh around the panels. We had panels installed and had pigeons in year after year. They wake you up before dawn in the summer cooing and leave their muck everywhere. These are south facing panels in full sun all day with no shading at all. After 3 years, we'd had enough and paid a...

I've got a metal gutter and metal downpipe that don't quite align anymore. There's nothing physically wrong with the downpipe so I'm trying to figure out a way to simply close the gap between gutter and downpipe so water doesn't spill down the pipe and wall. What's the best solution here? I was...