Yet another thread which I had to find out the forum it was posted in to understand what you were on about.
Agreed with Addis, the titles of the threads are pretty much meaningless unless you figure out what forum it's in and the post itself makes no sense without the title / containing forum...
If you added a quote to your sig for every time someone dosnt understand you........... I wish i could contribute but my connection is only192k thats kilo bits... and im caped. are you guys caped (limited amount of data per month or else you pay more). I only get 3gb and after i download my four episodes of heroes every month i tend to come very close to the limit seems like an awsome cause to support
HAHA, yeah matt thats the best ever, good idea. i'm up to five i think. Oh yeah just to mention this, i really sorry if some of the things i write confuse you guys, i really don't mean to it just happens, like after writing something, i doesn't even occur to me that what i posted was confusing or anything, so i'm sorry. But on the brighter side, it does give me a laugh, and i always send my threads to this one friend of mine and he usually gets a good laugh out of it to.
Matt, Folding@Home really doesn't use alot of bandwidth, the work units are measured in kilobytes (a powerful machine running 24/7 will download ~2 a week, on default settings). the biggest download is the actual client which is still only a few MB. 3GB of bandwidth a month.... :O, i can go through that in hours!
I think its criminal that we are being left so far behind in the internet world here in s.a because one telecoms company has a monopoly and dosnt veiw internet services as a priority. My friend in England has just got a 24mb connection thats...lets see 24*1024= 24576kb vs my 192kb......hmmmm...0.7% of his speed....and the most irritating thing is that he pays less for his connection if we convert rands to sterling and lets not forget that horrid cap of 3gb where he has none. Ive herd that in the asian cities they have like 100mb connections foe most people!!! is that true anyway now that ive ranted enough (i dont feel any better btw), how much data does this folding thing take up per month. sorry i didnt get what you said above
24mb?? I wonder how he got that. Ours is 2mb with unlimited download which is supposed to be £28 a month (but we only pay £18). BT genrally dominates over here because they own the phone lines, but providers like Sky and NTL are increasingly popular. With sky you can get upto 16mb, whereas with BT I think you can only get upto 8mb. lol We used to have a 2GB limit up until recently. If that happened again I think I'd die!
omw you pay less than me for your ancapped connection at 10 times the speed The unfairness!!!!! Anyhow, where do you live, cuz my mate is near london and thats the main city so it will be faster there. I dont know for sure but logically i assume as much.
ADSL goes upto 25MBit Matt, The software you have to download to run folding@home is ~0.25MB, and software updates (new cores) will be <1MB (i would think). a Work unit will NEVER be bigger than 5MB (unless you manually disable that restriction), but most will only be about 1 MB (at a guess). the total monthly bandwidth usage is not all that high, F@H is dial up friendly
will it be a valuable contribution for me to participate because i cant leave my pc on all the time. And are there any problems or negative affects that this can cause.
Well to be honest, yes. I have noticed that if you turn you off folding at home often it gets weird, and sometimes the work unit gets messed up. This is more apparent with the non graphical version, and even more so with the Windows version. But this is just what i've gathered from some small searching and some my experience. Then again, who knows it might be completely fine, and there is no harm in trying it out. So you might as well give it a go, and if all goes well, then why not keep doing it.
