Zebra wrote:

Well, after 5 years of running S@H, my PC farm finally fell silent yesterday
afternoon (this place is really quite without the reassuring hum of
power-supplies!). Due to geographic location, some of us still have to use
expensive dial-up connections which wasn't a problem with SetiQueue.
When I started noticing messages like "Deferring communication with project
for 2 hours, 29 minutes, and 28 seconds" I quickly came to the conclusion
that BOINC isn't for me.

What other projects are out there that are similar to the original S@H?

I believe you can set your project to download a certain amount of work (minimum and maximum days' worth of work), and i believe you can also tell it to connect on demand and disconnect when finished... don't know though, as i haven't used dialup in years :P