The connectivity problem noted yesterday turned out to be one of our switches and not the router. We swapped in a replacement switch today and connectivity was restored.

Thanks for the info. What's the deal today, with submitted tasks not showing up anywhere?
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Thanks Sten. Yes, I was aware that the previous post was extremely old, but I couldn't find any posts relating to the most recent problem. I appreciate your very helpful reply/explanation. Happy New Year!! :D
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your server is very ofen down
you have to sold your problem to be always online
I have my own problem to ( hard disk to much use and sometimes down )
but I find solution to it in few hours/(minutes) I will be online and work for all times
for me this is the deal I manage to work all time
but you must be on line all times
if not I can't lose my time for somethink don't work
and I will close my acces
thanks

I've stayed with SETI off and on for 10 years. When the computer is turned on it is with SETI.
Has anything come of this?
Has anyting promising been found?
Is there a good reason to continue the SETI?
How many of us are still hunting for SETI?
I realize it is a large cosmos, but it is starting to seem as if it is a very large waste of space, as Carl Sagan suggested it might be.
Perhaps we should be content with 'them' at last making their presence known.
Perhaps the cost of electricity and other facilities is not so dear to them.
Perhaps if there is a 'them' they have found it too dear a SETI to continue.

Can you please tell me what a good score is.
As of today I had zero but it has jumped significantly in the past few hours and I am unsure of the scoring (credit) system???
Also how does score be obtained, what happens to give me a score at all..
Sorry for my ignorance....

I've stayed with SETI off and on for 10 years. When the computer is turned on it is with SETI.
Has anything come of this?
Has anyting promising been found?
Is there a good reason to continue the SETI?

Hi Molgao,
I must say your post made me chuckle to myself. I guess the best "proof" that this is not a government conspiracy would be that the CIA and such would have their own super computers dedicated to such things. They wouldn't need us and I'm pretty sure they wouldn't want anything they were working on to be let loose out in the wild like this is. I would guess if we ever do find anything the government spooks would go crazy.

What we are doing is geared more to the scientific community though. SETI also picks up things like pulsars and can be used to locate and study them too. As for other BOINC projects, they are doing many other scientific studies such as a search for a cure for cancer and other diseases. BOINC is designed for projects running on a tight budget. The little guys needing help with whatever it is they may need a lot of computing power for but can't afford to buy or rent time on a super computer.
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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

My answer to the server being down at times is to set my preferences to indicate that I want enough work for my computer so that I have AT LEAST FIVE (5) DAYS OF WORK AVAILABLE ON MY COMPUTER. Since I seldom turn my computer off I feel that with that amount of work available I can ignore the server being down for several days without any problem other than completing much of the work and not having it show up on my account as finished but even that is not a problem since my main aim in volunteering my computer time is to give the project more computation time and NOT to run up points or whatever.

Have a great day or night.
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The whole point of distributed computing is YOU provide your spare computer cycles to a project to use as they see fit. It is NOT a 24/7 gaming platform for your entertanment. Been with SET 10+ yrs, run a 10 day cache and check it once a week. Never had "issues". No need to micro manage this thing on the user side because the user is supplying science with resources, science is not supplying users with a toy.
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...and science needs the computing power provided by us all, isn't it?
While there are still a lot packages from 2007 around, I think it can't be
a bad idea to get some extra computing time by extra willing users ;-)

I'd also welcome a preference setting where I can demand more packages on hold
in case the project isn't available, which happens every Tuesday due to the
regular maintainance.

I've noticed that today my amount of owing credits didn't got updated.
Last entries are from Sunday but my real credits were still increasing during the day.

Okay if you have replaced the Routers for the current communication problem, why then am I still getting a message stating Communication Defferred?

I still have many Tasks that need to be turned in for the deadline, is the problem going to effect the Tasks that were due during the time that the Processor's were down?
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I've have the same problem. The lack of real and useful info has caused me to connect to other projects and move Setiathome to a much lower priority.

Thanks for the consideration and timely info.
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I'm still not seeing updates nor new downloads.
There may be another problem!

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