Is 'Ready to report' predictable?

In addition to the response you already got: maybe the opposite way is more practical: FORCE an upload after you have attached the line to either PC. That is: once you provide a physical connection to the Internet, push the UPDATE button in the BOINC manager GUI (after selecting the einsten@home project) which forces an upload. Sometimes you have to repeat this to complete both the update plus the "reporting" phase (and also getting new work, of course).

There might even be a way to script this, as the boinc_cmd or boincmd command line interface has an update command as well (cmd line arg "--project http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu update" ). Any Windows gurus here?

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Bikeman

Yes, in the Boinc gui, it is Advanced, Preferences, network usage, then set the 'connect about every' to however long of a cache you would like. REMEMBER though that Einstein has deadlines and you don't want to be keeping a larger cache than you need to.

No problem, and yes a wireless router will avoid the 50' cable run!!

These are local settings which (if changed) override the global settings on the website just for the machine on which you set them. If you have multiple machines, you are better off to set your preferences on the website so that you avoid the tedium of having to visit each machine in turn. The local preferences are designed for the special situation where you need a particular machine to be configured differently from the rest in your group for some particular reason.

As you are crunching E@H only, with no backup project, I would suggest that you change your preferences on the website to be 0.0 for the "connect" preference and to something like 3.0 days or so for the "additional work" preference. That way you will have some protection against unplanned outages. Since most of your machines have an "always on" connection, it is best to use 0.0 for the "connect" preference.

For the case of the machine that is not usually connected, this is where you can use the local preferences to save you some work. For that machine only, change (locally) just the "additional days" preference to be something like 6 days or more so that the machine can get plenty of work when it connects. Once the work is downloaded go to the "Activity" drop down menu item in BOINC Manager and select the "network activity suspended" menu item. You can then disconnect the network cable without the BOINC client getting upset about not being able to phone home whenever it wants. You will not have to reattach the network cable for quite a few days - perhaps when the machine has less than 24hrs of work remaining. When you get to that point, this is what I suggest you should do:-

• * Open BOINC Manager at the "Projects" tab, select E@H and click NNT (No new tasks). This prevents requesting new work before completed work is uploaded.
  * After doing that, plug in your network cable.
  * On the "Activity" menu, remove "Network activity suspended" by clicking on one of the options that allow activity.
  * Go to the "Transfers" tab and watch your completed tasks being uploaded.
  * When uploading finishes completely, go to the "Projects" tab, select E@H and click on the "Allow new tasks" button.
  * Go to the "Messages" tab and watch the BOINC client report the uploaded tasks at the same time as a bunch of new work is downloaded.
  * When all downloads have finished (check "Transfers" tab), go to the "Activity" menu and once again set "network activity suspended".
  * Disconnect your network cable as the cycle is complete.
  

This whole cycle usually only takes a couple of minutes to complete and could even become a simple weekly task if you set the "extra days" appropriately.