Some of you may have noticed that the SETI server has been really slow in regards to sending/receiving work units.
I'd paste their exact message, but their website is down right now.
The berkeley network is currently overloaded, and as a result seti's bandwith has been restricted. This means that clients may fail to send and receive work units, leaving your computers idle.
For those of you that would like a solution to this problem, the team has a buffer that I run on one of my computers. This stores about 7 days worth of work units, and tries to send/receive most of the day.
If you would like to use it, simply setup your GUI client to use the http proxy, and put in seti.macnn.com as the url, and 5517 as the port.
For CLI users, run the app and add '-proxy seti.macnn.com:5517' to the end.
If you try and use the proxy right now, it may take an hour or more for it to download it's first unit, so if it keeps erroring that there are no WUs, try again in an hour. The slowdown affects the proxy's ability to quickly get WUs.
Also, it will fail to get a WU the very first time you tell it to connect, no matter what. This is how the proxy works, so don't panic, just tell your client to connect again.
--Scott
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