I give up for now.
Proxy (tried 12 different ones so far) or no proxy- it's just a matter of luck if you get a response from the Scheduler or not. Even with NNT set most of the time you don't get one.
Should be out of all work on one system in a couple of hours, the other system by tonight.

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Grant
Darwin NT

All right, all my active crunchers are now in mode "Set & Forget"

No "No New Tasks", proxies, manually update. No any kind of user activity.

"Install and forget"....

Let's wait and see what happens to them and their tasks.

Crow
Thunder
Bigred

Hope for best, fear for....

Thunder is out of work. Let's wait and see for how long...

On those rare occasions, with NNT set & no proxy when the Scheduler does respond, it's taking at least 2 minutes. Requests for work, even when not reporting tasks, timeout everytime.

EDIT- and maybe or maybe not related to the Scheduler problem, uploads have been very slow lately as well.

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Grant
Darwin NT

It's movie time at the homestead. Streaming Best Exotic Marigold Hotel with Judy Dench.

It is funny, affirming, adventurous journey for several newly retired English couples finding a new life in What They Think Is a luxury retirement hotel. Hmhh haha.... It's on Amazon.com for $3. The main crunchers: Amber, Henri, and Lilly (kitties all) are on set and forget till tomorrow later morning. Good luck volunteers; happy proxy dreams. Goodbye kitties. Hope you have enough to eat. Here: a link for the movie:
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120502/REVIEWS/120509993

Brother Frank

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Thunder is out of work. Let's wait and see for how long...

Last 24h:

17/11/2012 00:55:17 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
17/11/2012 04:27:59 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
17/11/2012 06:36:50 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
17/11/2012 06:44:04 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
17/11/2012 06:50:27 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
17/11/2012 06:59:22 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
17/11/2012 07:06:32 | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 20 new tasks
17/11/2012 07:20:22 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
17/11/2012 07:24:52 | SETI@home | Scheduler request completed: got 7 new tasks
17/11/2012 07:37:06 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
17/11/2012 07:43:57 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
17/11/2012 07:52:11 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
17/11/2012 08:03:08 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
17/11/2012 08:19:28 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
17/11/2012 09:40:21 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
17/11/2012 11:50:21 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
17/11/2012 14:56:11 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
17/11/2012 17:48:02 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
17/11/2012 21:40:11 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
17/11/2012 21:46:38 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
17/11/2012 21:53:34 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
17/11/2012 22:01:08 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
17/11/2012 22:11:35 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
17/11/2012 22:31:30 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
17/11/2012 23:04:02 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
18/11/2012 00:12:41 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
18/11/2012 01:46:29 | SETI@home | Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached

So not much communication with servers. All those 27 tasks were lost tasks. So no new task for over 24 hours

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"Please keep Your signature under four lines so Internet traffic doesn't go up too much"

- In 1992 when I had my first e-mail address -

All those 27 tasks were lost tasks.

Which is work you didn't actually have, but now do.
All i'm getting are timeouts, even with No New Tasks set a timeout is the usual response.

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Grant
Darwin NT

This is getting VERY VERY BORING!

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I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott (Mod-Ret.)

I am wondering if it is possible that the router at the PAIX that went rogue on us before Eric added memory to it has gone bonkers again........

I think your suggestion has merit. The pipe between the lab and the PAIX is full but only a little dribble is reaching us.

Which suggests to me, a pipe blockage at the PAIX, must be the problem.

the other thing I noticed on the tasks I have been allocated recently is that 90% are re-sends, a lot with _3 and _4 suffixes.

On the bright side, due to the current discombobulation I'm 100% sure my internet connection is OK. BOINC tells me. Over and over.

My iMac chugs away uploading and downloading with no problems....so how come my Windows based puter is anemic all of a sudden but the mac is fat and happy?

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My iMac chugs away uploading and downloading with no problems....so how come my Windows based puter is anemic all of a sudden but the mac is fat and happy?

Both using the same modem?
What is the response time for the Mac's Scheduler requests?

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Grant
Darwin NT

One system now completely out of work.

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Grant
Darwin NT

We may have discovered the Wimps not the Weakly Interacting Massive hypothetical particles which may be the main (or only) component of Dark Matter, a form of matter which emits and absorbs no light and which comprises approx 75% of all mass in the observable universe,

but the Wimps of the Internet, Macs and Unix systems seem to fair well
while Windows systems are Wimps weakly trying but massively failing to
communicate with SETI.