Andy Williams wrote:

with dialup on most of my machines.  I may switch to BOINC with the
small minority that have permanent broadband access, but probably not
the rest.  It's just too time consuming.

The connection can be via a lan and through a machine with internet access.

Hey, lan hardware is cheap enough now with 100Mb/s being given away and 10Mb/s getting thrown away. The WiFi stuff is steadily dropping in price.

Happy crunchin',
Martin