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First, I don't think the amount of data you will need to process SETI will be much of an issue unless you have a very restricted internet account. The work units are very small and take a great deal of processing. If you were using something that supported cuda it might be a different matter. On the other hand, if your computer is only on a few hours a day, that will limit you to a few work units a day. If you are connected 24 hours a day, you computer is on 24 hours a day and you have a very limited internet account, I have two ideas.
First, you could limit the number of processors you use for BOINC.
Second, you can limited the precentage of processor power BOINC uses. This setting tends to keep Laptops from melting down, but it has other usages.
Someone else may post another idea, so you may want to check back latter.
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