Thank you everyone for your results. I am getting a fair idea of how the speeds are at your end. Mihir, you can try any other speed test site or try this one for BSNL broadband. Nityaananda! Gauraanga! Hare Krishna!
Daaso'smi, BR Sadhu Swami Gaurangapada.
Nityananda, Gauranga, Hare Krishna!
The spot check for this particular moment is
Download 4185 kb/s
Upload 376 kb/s
Haribol
Dear Swamiji,
Nityananda ! Gauranga ! Hare Krishna !
I am getting the following message in the link you provided.
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Dear Swamiji,
Nityananda ! Gauranga ! Hare Krishna !
I am geting an error in the site and am not being able to check my speed. However I went into my broadband account and there it is said ' Broad band with Access Speed of 256 Kbps upto 2Mbps (max). '. Thus it varies between this. I have observed that the actual speed that takes place in kbs wihle downloading a file is 10 % of the limit given by them. Thus it comes to 25 kbs to 200 kbs. Most of the time it is 50 kbs to 80 kbs. This is the actual speed I see in the download window while the file is being downloaded.
Please tell me if I can be of any help to you.
Sincerely,
Mihir.
Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!
I have noticed upload is not always as good as this. And also Maharaja, I do not have unlimited mb usage account (not available with my service provider), so have to watch usage. But if I can assist in serving the devotees, please call.
y.s. Nava.
Dear Devotees and Visitors, Nityaananda! Gauraanga! Hare Krishna! We are again facing a lot of upload problems here for uploading videos. This is becoming a major bottleneck is making available the new videos to you. I would like to know your upload and download speeds so that we have a fair idea of the average speeds of our website visitors. Also if your upload speeds are good, we can request your help to upload some videos when we don't have any other solution. To check your speed, go to:
http://speedtest.net
and click on the recommended server pyramid and let it test your download and upload speeds. Then you can let us know your upload and download speeds by replying in this topic.
Daaso'smi, BR Sadhu Swami Gaurangapada.
Sadaputa Dasa (Richard L. Thompson) was born in Binghamton, New York, in 1947. In 1974, he received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Cornell University, where he specialized in probability theory and statistical mechanics.
Dear Devotees, Nityaananda! Gauraanga! Hare Krishna! Due to feedback from some of our devotees in India who have a maximum of 128 kbps internet connection (extremely slow), we tried an experiment to make available our videos at the lowest bitrate in the world conceivably possible for videos, which is even less than bitrates for mp3 audios. We are happy that after working with video codec experts, we are able to produce videos at only 100 kbps with viewable video and audio quality when viewed in a small size. Dialup connection speed is 56 kbps but it is fast being replaced by at least a 128 kbps connection in the third world countries. I think hardly anyone ever makes videos available at 100 kbps so this is our unique contribution to reach one and all via the internet with spiritually nourishing NITAAI Yoga videos.
So now even those with a minimum of 128 kbps internet connection will be able to play these 100 kbps videos online non-stop (no video stopping due to buffering) without having to first download them for hours or days. This will greatly increase the online audience who can view our NITAAI Yoga spiritual videos and attain benefit about the goal of human life. We are always happy to make it easier for one and all to become absorbed in Naama Bhakti Yoga and videos are the best medium to do that.
For now you can view these 100 kbps, 248 kbps and 768 kbps videos, depending on your speed, via the players in the tabs box at the Nitaai.net forum home page. We will later add a new topic for the video players for these video qualities.
We will also be making the same videos available at 248 kbps for slow-medium speed conections of 256 kbps and also the same videos in higher quality at 768 kbps to 1 Mbps for sharp fullscreen viewing for those viewers with real broadband connections. After some research, we have found that we may have to make the videos available in a 4th format for downloading, burning and playing on a Blu-ray disc on a PS3 etc. for viewing on TVs. Because the Blu-ray discs only play those videos which have AC3 audio in a m2ts (.ts) container along with the H.264 or WMV VC-1 video codec. Let us see how this would be possible.
Daaso'smi, BR Sadhu Swami Gaurangapada.
Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!
If we want to have a continuous supply of deep spiritual, Gauranga-Krishna Conscious insights on our path, we have to be ready to again and again pay the required price. But do we actually know the price? We have some general idea of the price we have to pay to attain our ultimate desired goal. Yet this supreme goal consists of many sub-goals which we have to achieve in our day-to-day life. It is a step by step progress. This progress has its specifics in connection to each and every individual. Generalization will not help us much. What is needed is a sincere, aware and consequent self-analysis in order to wash away the countless layers of misconception covering our souls. That will prove successful only if we give up the self-defeating tendency rooted deep within us. And that is only possible by sufficient spiritual merit and by the full mercy got out of effectively associating with saintly devotees of the Lord.
Matus
Nityananda! Gauranga ! Hare Krishna!
Dandavats and obeissances.
Sometimes one may wake up early at 4 am or so and still not be able to chant all their rounds for the day at this time. I think the important thing is to do as much as you can in the morning and do the rest throughout the day and night. It is still good to chant all day and during the night, but as Swami Gaurangapada has said it is just harder to concentrate because you have been out all day and it is harder to bring the mind back. Chanting is still the best thing you can do at anytime.
Here is a post Swami Gaurangapada gave a while back:
Here is a video which explains some of these truths nicely. The Mysteries of the Sacred Universe book and cd-rom by Sadaputa dasa are a good source of information about this. It is available on Krishna.com here and on Amazon book here and cd here. The Vedic Cosmography book can be read here. Nityaananda! Gauraanga! Hare Krishna!
