I don have a permanent Internet connection, and have to pay for all my phone calls and net usage. Can I run SETI@home without going bankrupt?
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ will only connect to the Internet when you want it to. The GUI (slow, pretty graphics) clients have an option under “Preferences” to “Ask me before connecting to the Internet”, and the CL (fast, no graphics) clients have a switch “-stop_after_process”. In each case, this will prevent an internet connection being made until you’re ready, and means the clients can be left safely unattended. When you are ready to connect to the Internet (say, for a normal browsing, usenet or mail session) you can make the client send results and retrieve a new Work Unit. In the GUI case, it will ask you to make a connection. For the CL client, stop the process, then restart it without the “-stop” switch, and it will connect automatically. Depending on the load at the Berkeley servers, within 5 minutes you will have sent your results and received new work to do. Programs have been developed, that will buffer the WU’s for you, see sections 3 and 4. If you are still concerned
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