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Chad
14 years ago

Yeah, a survival group(besides a family) is a bad idea. Too many conflicting interests and human nature is survival of the fittest.

Crusher13
Crusher13
14 years ago

Is your host now throttleing the download speed of audio files? I am getting around 22K/sec download speed. Used to be almost 2M/sec.

JimK
JimK
14 years ago

only 11K for me…I am on a T-3 line

Curtis Horton
Curtis Horton
14 years ago

I can’t download it at all.

Jenelle
Jenelle
14 years ago

I can’t get it to download at all, it sat there forever saying “getting file information” and then it popped up an error message saying “unable to download _file name_ connection to server could not be established.” I tried three times, still can’t do it.

Dallcoh
Dallcoh
14 years ago

Cannot read file.

C:\\Users\\Public\\Documents\\Survival Podcast\\epi-00449-feedback-6-7-10.mp3 could not be saved, because the source file could not be read.

Try again later, or contact the server administrator.

Curtis Horton
Curtis Horton
14 years ago

slow but working now… I’m up to 5% on the download.

Kincaid
Kincaid
14 years ago

Jack – For the person asking about using the basement as a cooling system. I believe they said they were in the North East. They should be careful and do a test for radon first before venting air up from the basement into the house. I had to have a radon remediation pipe installed and it actually takes the air up from the basement out through the roof.

Inbox485
Inbox485
14 years ago

Just downloaded at around 2 MB/s. The file is only 6.9MB. Is that a new CODEX you are using?

Inbox485
Inbox485
14 years ago

No need to worry about bit rate Jack, they are spoken word audio files. Nobody needs to be able to hear the difference between a D sharp from a violin in the background and a cat’s meow. Your very first car-casts were bloody well good enough, and on my laptop speakers, I can’t tell the difference between today’s file and the last show. In my car, I can barely tell the difference between the latest shows and back when you were in your car.

mark
mark
14 years ago

Jack
Is this new very low bitrate to stay or only for the duration of the crisis. As a long term fan and a bit of an audio nut I have followed you audio improvements right through to your awesome sound at 44/96 for the last few shows. I think the shows you have done at 22/64 sound great. If you use LAME encoding to mono halves the file size.
Pwrsonaly I think 16/16 is a bit painfull.
Mark The Limey

mark
mark
14 years ago

Jack what i meant to say was “personaly 11/16 is a bit painfull”
Mark

Jason
Jason
14 years ago

I agree that a survival group is an idea that is popular in APOC fiction(Patriots rears its head again), but has huge risks in real life. I wouldn’t want to not have a resource of water, simply because I trust that my survival group “has it covered”. However, I feel that there are great advantages to incorporating friends into your own personal survival plans. I know you were answering a listener’s question, but I feel that your answer was a bit short and dismissive. Can you consider this as a future topic for a show? I know you could think of some amazing ideas on how you can work with other preppers without leaving yourself vulnerable. great show as always. Thanks Jack!

Polar bear
Polar bear
14 years ago

Jack,

I listened with just a hint of amusement about your thoughts on having the police teach the elderly lady some proper shooting stances, reloading the revolver, and other gun safety/shooting lessons. You forgot that this lady was probably pretty darn excited/anxious about the whole set of events. I’d wager that anything the police tried to teach her at that time would’ve gone in and out her head like the air.

If anything, the police could’ve offered to stop by another day to teach her a few basic or talk to a friend at a gun range about giving her a few basic sarter lessons at no charge once she has settled down a bit.

Still a great show.

Gene

Patrat
Patrat
14 years ago

The audio quality is noticeably lower, although I am no audiophile. It sounds like you are speaking into a tin can, there is a crackle when you inflect, and a bit like AM radio.

Jenelle
Jenelle
14 years ago

I actually didn’t notice any difference in the sound and didn’t realize anything had been changed until I read it on here.

90% of the time I listen to the podcasts on my cell phone which doesn’t have a very nice speaker so the sound quality would have to get really bad for me to notice a difference.

Even if the sound quality goes down I’ll still listen… it really wasn’t that bad when you first started (in my humble – non audiophile – opinion).

Chad
14 years ago

It sounds fine on my iPod Nano.

carpus
carpus
14 years ago

I had an issue with being able to listen to the show on my mp3 player (Sony Walkman)

So, I’ve had to convert the mp3 to a m4a to get my walkman to play it. My walkman won’t support mp3 lower than 32bit.

Figured I’d post this incase anyone else is having the same issue.

I also agree with Jason and think that you should do a show about survival groups…

Pete in Maryland
Pete in Maryland
14 years ago

Response to your comments about John wanting to cool his house w/ the cool air in basement. In the N/E, it is a standard item to have a whole house fan. Mine is located in the ceiling of the 2d floor. It sits at the top of the stairs. Whole house fans are large enough to draw air from every open window/screen door of the house. I cool my house with it daily. John needs to visit various sites for whole house fans (northern tool; home depot; lowes, and others). They work great. Pete.

Gary
Gary
14 years ago

With regard to the survival group, my wife and I are planning on taking a bus, along with a bunch of other tea party patriots to the Glenn Beck even in Washington on 8/28. I just ordered 2 of the Survival Podcast tea shirts and we plan on wearing them on the way up. We’ll see if they generate any questions and we’ll go from there on any possible like minded individuals that we could hook up with should TSHTF and it is needed.

As far as the audio quality, I listen to the podcasts with my iPhone in my car. I did notice a change in sound quality but, it is not a show stopper.

David
David
14 years ago

Dropping down to the lower bit rate is noticeable but certainly not unusable. I do prefer higher bit rate mp3s but beggars can’t be choosers. Some of the other survival focused podcasts use similar bit rate levels so you aren’t the only one.

If possible can you look at providing higher bit rate versions of the podcast to the MSB members?

Jonathan LGM30
14 years ago

To the listener with cool air in basement. If you have central AC.
Turn on your fan to the “on” mode instead of the auto mode.
Close off all of the discharge vents in the basement and open the discharge vents in the upper most floor.
Block off all of the return air vents in the above grade portion of your house. You can use plastic and duct tape, or buy big strips of magnetic plastic specifically designed for this. Most return air grills do not have adjustments, just the supply air ones.
Make certain that the return air vents in the basement are open.
This moves the cool air from the basement to the upstairs and equalizes the temperatures throughout the house. It will typically cool my house 3 to 5 degrees, if I keep all the windows closed once the outside air temperature is above about 78 degrees.

BTW in the winter do the opposite for keeping the basement warm and to avoid overheating the upper floors.