Question about Uploading w/ docking@home

[L337Llama]

I just docking@home on my computers, and I have a question about how much it uploads.

I currently live in a dorm, and I'd like to leave it on all the time, but the dorm has network restrictions. If a given mac address from your dorm room uploads over 650mb in a 24 hour time period, they restrict your bandwidth so the internet becomes incredibly slow and virtually unusable for anything besides the school's websites.

So, I was wondering if I leave docking@home running 24/7 on two computers, will I hit that cap?

 

[lizardth]

I have been researching, trying to find an answer to this, but I haven't found any information yet. I'm still going to be searching--I just wanted to let you know that I wasn't ignoring your question or anything.

 

[L337Llama]

Well, I might just leave it running today to find out if it goes over 650. I guess that will give a ballpark estimate to start from. Though trial and error isnt always the best to find the answer to a question.

 

[petrusbroder]

As far as I have been able to discern, the output file is approx 2.5MBytes. That means that you would have to crunch at least 25 WUs to hit 100 Mbytes. If you crunch 1 WU/50minutes/core (which is probably the output of your computers) then you may reach at most 115 WUs (if you crunch 24hours/day), which should be approx 290 MBytes/day ...

But as I said: the size of the output file may be smaller then 2.5Mbytes or it may be bigger (which I doubt very much).
I hope this helps.