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[shortcircuit]

My cable modem died yesterday morning, meaning I now have 10ghz of amd rigs sitting idle. My ISP sucks royally, last time it took more than a week to fix. :(

This evening I will try to set up something with dialup, maybe if I can get like 6 instances of F@H running on each box I can only dialup once a day to send/receive WU's... WAHHHHH.....:(

Tedinde: Here's your chance to get a head start :p

[Bosw8er]

If you have a dial-up-modem you can share it on your network ... problem fixed.

[N8]

Shame man...my ISP been crap lately too.....bout to give em a call :)

[Stangfrk]

What's with ISP's lately. My Isp has been off and on now for a week. They can't even send anyone out to check the lines until next Friday :mad: Then to top it all off my APC power strip blew up on me. I went to plug something into it and sparks went flying. My Pc's shut down and I lost my MBR off my main rig. What next?

[Marci]

It's the same state in UK too... Broadband users are suffering dialup speeds or less, and we've always had ridiculous times to wait for engineers... usually a week, sometimes two, I've even had to wait a month in the past and I get a priority service cos I have 1Mb at home... and TV and phone, all thru Telewest...

It hasn't been off for a while but speed is soooo slow it's unbelievable... no matter whether a UK site or a US site (but don't use mine as a comparison for UK as it's hosted in US... fairly close to where XS' servers are from what I worked out... we use PowWeb)

Shortcircuit... wouldn't worry about Tedinde... statsman shows you coming tearing thru and he isn't pumpin enough out to compete...

Tedinde... MORE RIGS/POWER REQUIRED D00d!

[Tedinde]

Yeah you could set up internet connection sharing on xp. Slow but better than nothing. I know something had to be wrong. Since i told you not to "slip" once. Just kidding

Too bad there's not a Queue program like seti has. I used to run a few boxes with 100 WU's queue'd and just transmit when finished. Plus just incase the servers went down for days. You had backup.

Why cant Folding@home do somthing like that. A lot more people would do this since it would make it easier.

I share a Comcast pro connection with my neighbor. Costs $84 instead of the usual $41. But I get around 5800k down and 1200k up. If i went for basic i would get 1200k down and 128k up. So it's better for both of us to share a connection. Houses are close. Plus When in goes down they guarantee fast service on the pro connection.

Id go crazy now if i had to use a phoneline. But sorry to hear that Shortcircuit, I dont want to pull ahead of you this way!!!!!