Rob Bradford wrote:

No I'm not in it for the stats, but I live in a UK area that has no
Broadband as it is not seen as a "center of mass population".  As a result I
can not stay on line with a heartbeat for BOINC, so when seti classic dies I
stop processing!

You have my sympathies.

I've just had a few months of stupidness with the "monopoly carrier" here to get a broadband connection to a new business park! The best they have offered is a very marginal 65dB path loss ADSL at 512kb/s if we're very lucky on a good clear day with no rain for the last week and if their exchange isn't too congested... (:-((

I guess a leased line is beyond your needs (:-/)

Try a 'question' to your MP. Mine speeded up a long tussle over BT trying to plant one of their antique unsightly telephone "drop" poles in a silly place. A year later, BT finally walked away /without/ having planted _any_ 10m poles. Phew!

Can you get a radio link? There's lots of new upstarts using WiFi to give rural coverage.



Also, the present boinc can be configured to connect only once in a while, so you could set it to connect only once a week for example.

Future plans include adding a feature to boinc for machines that don't a direct internet connection.

Worth checking further.

Good luck,
Martin