Video should be much improved
June 5th, 2007 by Kip Draper - 531 views
After testing the streaming video, I thought it was destined to be choppy on this connection. However, after I noticed that the hub/switch the cam was connected to started throwing off some crazy led light patterns as if it were possessed (I think it took a lightning hit), I removed & replaced it and it seems to have done the trick for now. We’ll see after some traffic. Speaking of traffic, we’re having our basement refinished, so the workers will be chasing off the skittish critters on occasion for the next few days week or so.
I’ll try to continue to improve the image and sound quality; I’m just geeky like that. Here are two hummers I grabbed. In the first one, there’s a finch in the top left corner checking him out. The last one’s another critter caught-on-cam at the watering hole.
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