On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:49:18 -0000, "Terry" <terry@tbean.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

...When it finished a work unit it
would then request a internet connection.

This has run fine like this for 5 years.

Could somebody please please please tell me how to set up boinc to do this.

The boinc software is very confusing and I have no idea how to do this.

I am a software engineer and certainly no novice when it comes to software.

Bring up your BOINC Manager; click on "Options" > option> connections. You can choose to
have BOINC connection via your regular Internet connection. I'm connected so often that I
just have BOINC detect the settings.  For some reason, I don't think BOINC ever connected
via my Internet connection, but it does a great job of transferring data, when I'm online.

Right now BOINC is not accepting data, but I have a reasonable cache.

Seeing that you're a software engineer, why not tell the BOINC folks how to make things
better. I don't think BOINC is unfriendly: just new. To be honest, I have no idea of what
it is doing; only that it is running. Work units don't seem to be what they were in SETI
Classic, but I don't know what the difference might be. In BOINC, I see "Credit claimed"
which is sometimes far less that "Credit granted". So it seems like crunchers are not
getting as much credit as in SETI Classic. However, I've only been learning about BOINC
for one week, and I've already learned a lot.



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