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TA UD team Question

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Blayze

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I am currently working on the UD Project and I am getting ready to join TA.
I was wondering how to setup this so I could leave my computer working on WUs without being connected to the net.

I am on 56k and I want to be able to have enough work units so if I am not home for a day or so it will continue to work without running out of WUs.
 
I have a couple more questions about the client.

My score for my network is a 1 out of 100! I have a Linksys 10/100 network card.
However I connect to the internet with a 56k modem. Is this normal?

Also how do I make it use more hard drive space? It says I am using 1 gig of space for a score of 20 out of 100.
 
network score is based mostly on how fast you downloaded your last unit, so the 56k will hurt you there. someone at ars discovered adding multiple adapters and protocols, even if they didn't actually exist on your computer, would help that score.

your harddrive score can be controlled from the UD website. there is a part, when you login, called "my devices" and there you can change how much HD space the UD agent can have. note that it doesn't actually take up all that space.

as for WU caching, i don't know if you can do that. there may be an autoconnect feature that will dial your modem.
 


<< My score for my network is a 1 out of 100... Is this normal? >>



Yes. UD's scoring system, while secret, is apparently based on how well your computer connects to their server. If the connection is poor, you get a low score, regardless of the reason. If your connection is slow, your ISP is bottlenecked, or their server is overloaded, it is all the same to the scoring algorythm



<< Also how do I make it use more hard drive space? It says I am using 1 gig of space for a score of 20 out of 100. >>



You've not given enough info, so I'm guessing here. It could be a couple of things. First, the drive space used setting in your UD device configuration (on the UD website) could be set to 1G. Second, you may only have 1G free on your system partition/drive. If that is the case, try shutting down your UD client and moving your UD directory to the partition/drive with the most free space, changing your shortcuts, and restarting it (that's what I did, and it made a difference).

Either way it will still show the 1G limit until the next time your UD client connects to the UD server and updates. Or at least it worked that way a couple of versions ago, it may be smarter now but I doubt it.
 
The network score is annoying. It's mostly just roulette for us broadband users. Why don't they just cache WU? Oh well, I've moved on to OGR.
 
For hd, UD uses a default of 1 GB. If you haven't changed the profile, this is your max.
Generally, it uses the smallest of the number in the profile, or the size of the partition running UD. Atleast under win2k, it doesn't use the free space on the partition, but the size of the partition. Max hd-score is 196.

As for net score, I'll guess your max score is between 10 and 20. Of course, sometimes you can get a net-score in excess of 1000...
 
there is a small add-on program for 56k users like us, available from this site... i'm using it on my home computer and it's working well so far (except it wakes me up at night sometimes 🙁 )

also, this link is very helpful and can get most of your questions answered.

and yes, go to the device manager to set more HD space to boost up your score a bit... it won't get you too far, but i guess the scores themselves are not that important anyway....

btw, one question that i have... some people mentioned that UD is a part of distributed.net (the one with RC5 projects), but i couldn't get a reference of this anywhere... can anyone please verify whether they're actually related, or the same company, or i'm just hallucinating? thanks 🙂

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thanks my network score is staying around 8 to 11 🙁
when I was downloading it went down to like 1 or 2, man 56k sure is crappy 😀 I hate this too because my network score is making my overall score lower than it should be. Oh well.

anyway I got the hard drive size fixed (I set it to 5 gigs and now get a score of 98 or 100 🙂 I was wondering should I set it higher? I have 15 gigs free on this partition), and am using UD Monitor to cache work units.

Thanks for the help.
 
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