What sort of network connection? Can you use a proxy?

I take it from the lack of response that what i want is not possible, so how have other people dealt with this situation?

Did you get to here from a computer that was NOT on the network?

In the old UD days, it was easy to walk floppy disks back and forth (sneakernet) to a computer that was not online.

It is more difficult or impossible with BOINC.

How do you download Windows updates or daily virus program updates for that network? I guess those must be sent over by flashdrive, eh?

Last year, I tried BOINCing on an offline computer and flashing back and forth, but it really got confused sorting out the timestamps between two computers, especially if it had to sort out something a bit sooner or later, which it hates to do. At times, it ascribed a due date of 1900. It's not as clean as sneakernetting the old UD workunits, which weren't hooked to the registry.

I'm not sure I'd do it ON THE flash drive, although it would be possible. Bashing it with repeated checkpoint writes is not the best idea from what I've seen out there. At least one brand spreads the writes throughout the drive, which helps a little bit. The transfer rate is also slower than a hard disk. Simply moving files around between computers doesn't increment the writes that fast.

Manually transporting on usb/jump/flashdrive from a machine that has internet and can host a second BOINC install that is started strictly for fetching and returning work transported to/from the non-internetted crunching machine works with necessary precautions, some mentioned earlier in this thread. Several home-brew instructions are around these fora and in other places.... and of course it goes without saying that full owners permission is in place.