Virtually none. The only time any bandwidth is used is when it contacts the server to send and recieve assignments. You dont even need to be connected to the internet at any other time.
Virtually none. The only time any bandwidth is used is when it contacts the server to send and recieve assignments. You dont even need to be connected to the internet at any other time.
I hope he means 16KB/s instead of 16Kb/s. Either one would work for folding, but if it was 16Kb/s, it would be totally paralyzed while uploading or downloading (and it would take a while), while a 16KB/s connection would just be slow for a couple of minutes a day. I used to use a dial up connection that could only do 3KB/s and it was able to support 4 computers without too many problems. I was always hoping they'd upload and download overnight so that I didn't have to sit and wait the 10+ minutes it took to transfer the data back and forth - and that was back in the day with much smaller WUs.