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Dial-up! What are some good projects for us 56k'ers?

mechBgon

mechBgon

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I have an A64 and dial-up. What are some projects that work out well on intermittent connections? 🙂
 
Originally posted by: CheesePoofs
What's dial-up? 😉🙂
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Hehe, rub it in why don'tcha 😉 Thanks for the suggestion Freewolf, I'll work on FaD for a while then 🙂

 
Yeah, hop on FaD! We need the help :thumbsup:

And you're already a member of the TeAm! 😀



JC
 
Hey, Mech! It looks like you've been spotted for awhile with that icon! 😛

I'm still on dial-up. FaD works fine. Anything BOINC seems to work fine. With my SBQueue, Seventeen or Bust works fine.
 
*me waves to Mech with a flak cannon* 😀

Hi mate! ,longtime no see!

SETI classic works well with dialup too ,& seeing as its gradually reaching its end (account creation has just been disabled) this could be your last chance to reach a few milestones😉
 
Originally posted by: mechBgon
*waves*

I have an A64 and dial-up. What are some projects that work out well on intermittent connections? 🙂
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Folding at home with the 5MB work units option turned off works fine over dial up, so does SETI.
 
GIMPS (Prime 95)

Very very dial-up friendly. No multi-megabyte WUs. You just get an exponent to test, for example 24225577. The exponents take a long time to test though. Depending upon the exponent and your PC it could take upto a month to test.
 
Holy Bat-chunks, Batman... it's a Mech sighting! :Q

Howzit Tom?

DPAD is a dandy 56K project. Small ascii file to transfer - no WU's to download.
 
Originally posted by: Googer
Folding at home with the 5MB work units option turned off works fine over dial up, so does SETI.
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Stanford had an excellent dialup-friendly client in Genome@home-v0.99, but later switched to using the Folding@home-client. At the time the Folding@home-client was crap on dialup, and this is basically still the case on "normal" folding@home-wu.

But, they did add an option with "timeless" wu, and possibility to cache upto 10? wu at a time, so as long as you're only running "timeless" wu it works on dialup.


In SETI@home "classic" on the other hand you can cache as many wu as you wants, if you does the caching by using a couple batch-files and just the client, or more advanced tools like SetiQueue is your choise.

SETI@home/BOINC have built-in caching and multi-cpu-support, the only you needs to remember is 14-day deadline. 😉

BOINC is also multi-project, and you can also select other projects like Predictor@home and Einstein@home with 7-day deadline, and CPDN with very long wu and 1-year deadline also work great if you example is offline for a 1-2 months at a time.
 
Originally posted by: sharad
GIMPS (Prime 95)

Very very dial-up friendly. No multi-megabyte WUs. You just get an exponent to test, for example 24225577. The exponents take a long time to test though. Depending upon the exponent and your PC it could take upto a month to test.
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I have to agree. Prime95 is probably the most dialup friendly project around. You can run offline for months at a time, with no large uploads at all.

But an AT project would be more appropriate. DPAD (Muon) is very dialup friendly, and is an AT project. I think SETI would be a waste, as it's pretty much a dead end project.
 
Originally posted by: Amaroque
Originally posted by: sharad
GIMPS (Prime 95)

Very very dial-up friendly. No multi-megabyte WUs. You just get an exponent to test, for example 24225577. The exponents take a long time to test though. Depending upon the exponent and your PC it could take upto a month to test.
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I have to agree. Prime95 is probably the most dialup friendly project around. You can run offline for months at a time, with no large uploads at all.

But an AT project would be more appropriate. DPAD (Muon) is very dialup friendly, and is an AT project. I think SETI would be a waste, as it's pretty much a dead end project.
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Don't forget SETI will be carrying on in BOINC ,that is certainly not a dead end as its a new program😛

 
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