Although I think there is a small chance of finding some sort of ETI through this project I think that that chance is thin. My main reason for running this project is the computing. Distributed computing has always interested me and this is the biggest form of it.
I would like to see a second seti@home start scanning more of the sky so as a WU is sent out a maximum of twice. Greater sky coverage would make the results a lot more reliable because at the moment we are missing out a lot of the sky. I would also like to see more funding put into S@H, from where I don't know but it would make the project a lot more viable.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.
