If you were running BOINC on a computer with dialup, and you had no daily control over it. (Another person uses it and don´t want to help BOINC to connect)

How would you tune BOINC to have it to automatically connect and do its work, but not bother the user about it?

Just set your OS to automatically open an internet connection when an application wants to use it.

Also make sure your BOINC preferences are set to connect without confirmation, and disconnect when done.

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Dialup is known to broken. Developement has promissed an eventual fix. Until then, you have the choice of allowing BOINC to connect when it wants to, or checking and unchecking the disable network access menu item. For Dialup under the current circumstances, I would manually check/uncheck the network access manu item, and I would keep a queue of at least as long as you are generally away from the computer. If you connect every evening, I would suggest a queue of 2 to 2 days.

I do not believe that development was ready for public release, but they were forced by independent disclosure to go to release.

The problem is. I dont want to dial automatically....
I just want BOINC to do it´s network-work when it can (Probably an hour every evening or so)

> The problem is. I dont want to dial automatically....
> I just want BOINC to do it´s network-work when it can (Probably an hour every
> evening or so)

Run the software as per normal with the disable network access option enabled (ticked).

When you want to communicate with the servers:
Establish your dial-up connection manually;
Select the disable network option (un-ticked);
Watch the messages window and wait until client server communication has completed;
Select the disable network option (ticked);
Disconnect your dial-up connection.

> The problem is. I dont want to dial automatically....
> I just want BOINC to do it´s network-work when it can (Probably an hour every
> evening or so)

Hmmm.... This looks to be a direct contradiction of your earlier statement.

"How would you tune BOINC to have it to automatically connect and do its work, but not bother the user about it?"

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Nonono...

I don want it to dial automatically (The person who own the computer wont be happy with extra calls on his phone-bill)

For an hour every evening or so, Internet is avaible when he is reading his mail etc, and then is when SETI got a change of sending and recieving data.

Completely unattended.

> Nonono...
>
> I don want it to dial automatically (The person who own the computer wont be
> happy with extra calls on his phone-bill)
>
> For an hour every evening or so, Internet is avaible when he is reading his
> mail etc, and then is when SETI got a change of sending and recieving data.
>
> Completely unattended.
>
This is broken at the moment. I believe that scheduled connections are supposed to happen eventually.

> Dialup is known to broken. Developement has promissed an eventual fix. Until
> then, you have the choice of allowing BOINC to connect when it wants to, or
> checking and unchecking the disable network access menu item. For Dialup
> under the current circumstances, I would manually check/uncheck the network
> access manu item, and I would keep a queue of at least as long as you are
> generally away from the computer.


To automatic Re-Set the "Disable BOINC Network Access" at Boinc start up,
take a look at this tread:

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=480