How do i make Seti download units when i connect to the internet?

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Message 50133 - Posted: 30 Nov 2004, 8:46:18 UTC

When i come home i find that Boinc has defferred communication for as much as 7 hours. Sence i dont want to stay up until one in the morning again to download work units. How do i get Seti to download while i have the internet connection on.
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Message 50143 - Posted: 30 Nov 2004, 10:21:21 UTC

It is quite simple:
- go the the tab "Projects"
- right click on "Seti@Home"
- click on "update"

The first thing that will happen is reporting the results (normally uploading the results should have been done already). After that, if your settings in your general preferences are allowing downloading WU's, you should get WU's.

In this "General Preferences", set your "Connect to network about every xx days" to a number 2 or 3 and have a look to see how many WU's are downloading. Once you have changed your settings on the server, in the GUI click once again on "Update" to update the changes to your PC.

Knowing the time to process one WU, you can then increase are decrease this number as you want. Keep in mind the necessary space required on your hard disk for getting the necessary WU's.

Keep an eye also in the tab "Messages" to see if any error message appears or not.

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Look if your question is not answered at the Boinc Wiki

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Message 50345 - Posted: 1 Dec 2004, 3:33:07 UTC - in response to Message 50143.  

> It is quite simple:
> - go the the tab "Projects"
> - right click on "Seti@Home"
> - click on "update"
>
Thank you i would never have considered right clicking. I'm a what you see is what you get kind of person. I would never of thought there was more options there.

Thanks again.
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Message 50591 - Posted: 2 Dec 2004, 3:40:55 UTC

Since you are apparently on dialup, you may also wish to consider selecting File/Disable Network Access when not connected, and undo the check mark when connected.


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