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Seti@Home Bandwidth Problems

Posted by timothy on from the just-as-the-messages-are-about-to-come-through dept.

reflexreaction writes: "With so many of the /. users actively using and supporting Seti@home, many of you have realized that in the last couple of weeks that Seti has had some serious problems receiving completed data and getting new data to process from its 3 million members because of network bandwidth problems. All the gritty details are here. The article details some things that users can do to alleviate some of the problems including connecting during off hours and downloading more than unit than once using programs like SetiQueue for PC and Seti Unit Manager for Mac. Donations are also accepted. There is also a plea for bandwidth donations. It will be truly unfortunate if this page becomes /.ted without benefit from /. users."

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  1. Dnet had this figured out from the beginning by GigsVT · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Distributed.net just uses a network of proxies, are the SETI people idiots or did they just not have the forethought that the distributed.net people had?

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  2. OMFG by cswiii · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It will be truly unfortunate if this page becomes /.ted without benefit from /. users.

    Please tell me I'm misinterpreting this. To me, it reads like, "It'll really be bad, if their site gets slashdotted, and then you slashdot users don't give anything back."

    Honestly, if that doesn't sound like sniveling for one's entitlements, I dunno what does.

    "Here, I'll unwittingly subject Seti@Home to 50x its normal traffic. And because all those people chose to visit the link that I posted, as /. readers are apt to do, they should donate their bandwidth resources to this project."

    What a feckin' guilt trip.