SetiQ and Dial up

[MoFunk]

I know it sucks, but I can't afford $50 a month for DSL right now! My question is this, can SetiQ dial up when it needs to connect? I see that I can set it to connect between certain hours, but I am not sure if it will dial out. I guess if not I can manually connect it every few nights. I am going to have 4 machines crunching at home soon! WUWUWU!

 

[Assimilator1]

There are no options for SETIQ to dial out automatically that I know of.
Estimate the maximium offline you'll be (I bet 1-2 days😉) & then add a couple of days ,with no lower min Q level than around 5days.

 

[MoFunk]

Bummer. Guess that will have to be the way untill I can swing DSL. Thanks.

 

[JWMiddleton]

YES! I used SetiQueue for over a year with dialup for my main herd with over 60 WUs per day. I allowed a couple of hours and everything worked fine. If you have your system set to automatically dial when the Internet is needed then it will do so for SetiQueue. So, when you click on IE does your system automatically dial the Internet? If not, then set it up to do so.

I still have 3 remote clients that each use dialup with SetiDriver and my CabinBox that has a SetiQueue. They work the same way.

 

[deerslayer]

So if I set up SetiQ on my main rig (the one that dials up) I could set the rest of the rigs in my house to transmit to my main rig, and then send them all out from there?

 

[JWMiddleton]

LyNx01, Yes. I had ~500 WU in my SetiQueue which the systems on my LAN used from. Each night around 10:00 PM the system dialed into the Internet and dumped results and replenished WUs. I had my Internet connection set to disconnect after 15 minutes of inactivity. So, once SetiQueue was finished the system disconnected until the next night. I had the connect window set to run from 10:00 PM to 11:59 PM, but it didn't take that long normally to transmit the 60+ WU that queue serviced per day.

 

[Ken g6]

I've been on dial-up for over a year and a half. I set it up to connect automatically each morning with a scheduled batch file that contains:

c:\windows\RUNDLL32.EXE RNAUI.DLL,RnaRunImport xxx.dun

where xxx.dun is a copy of your dial-up networking file.

Hope this helps.

P.S. For some reason the "disconnect after xxx idle time" checkbox is grayed out for me. Anyone know why? (not that it matters; I'll have wireless ethernet by Monday. 😀)

 

[Assimilator1]

Nice solutions guys 🙂 ,I never really looked into it cos I dialed up to the net virtually everyday anyway😉

Btw Ken ,I take it that batch file automatically dialed up the internet for you?What triggers it ?the time?

 

[MoFunk]

Originally posted by: Ken_g6
I've been on dial-up for over a year and a half. I set it up to connect automatically each morning with a scheduled batch file that contains:

c:\windows\RUNDLL32.EXE RNAUI.DLL,RnaRunImport xxx.dun

where xxx.dun is a copy of your dial-up networking file.

Hope this helps.

P.S. For some reason the "disconnect after xxx idle time" checkbox is grayed out for me. Anyone know why? (not that it matters; I'll have wireless ethernet by Monday. 😀)

I will have to play with this. My system is set up kinda wierd. If my wife brings up OE or I bring up IE it will pop up a dial up window and then we hit connect ( did that cux M$ has stuff that wants to connect to the net every once in a while and we would find the computer connected on occasion). But if I bring up Mozilla it will not bring up a dialer. So I tried to have SetiQ dial and it would not, so this batch file will do this trick. Thanks for the info!

 

[MoFunk]

Well here is a bummer, it does not appear to work in XP. XP does not appear to have RNAUI.DLL. I have even tried to schedule a shortcut to my DUN and still nothing. Anyone know how to do this in XP?

 

[Swanny]

If your system dials automatically, you should have no problems. I used it like that for at least 1.5 years.

 

[MoFunk]

I had to turn that off because I was tired of trying to use the phone and the modem was on. M$ always trying to phone home I guess! I did try to inable that again and everything but SetiQ would dial. I did find a vbs I was playing with and used a bit of that to dial so this should do the trick, will find out in the morning I guess. I am also currently playing around with running SeiHide as a service so hope that works too.

For anyone interested the vbs is

set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.SendKeys "^{ESC}snss{ENTER}"

the ^{ESC} brings up the start menu
snss then navigates settings, network connections and then my setiq dial up. I have a couple dialups that start with S so i had to do that. Works fine and I can schedule the vbs to run a couple minutes before the Q is supposed to connect........Now to test!