I don't know much, but if it's just for wcg, x3, it wouldn't even take up 600MB a month, so that should suffice.

Even 300MB per month may be high. For Human Proteome Folding the amount of data being sent is about the same as the amount being received, up to about 1 MB of input and 1MB of output per result. You could look at your device statistics and figure out what the average is for you now. For satellite connections, the uplink direction can be considerably slower (often transmitted via phone line), so some other plans might be an improvement in that regard.

Some future project may, however, require more data transfer. If that were to become a problem in your case, you could opt out of that particular project. Also, you can limit the times of day when you allow your agent to run and to communicate using the device profile settings on the web site. This could be used to reduce the number of results produced, and thus limit the amount of data transmitted, if absolutely necessary.

Thank you, thank you. This helps tremendously with my decision. Again, thanks for taking the time to lend assistance. SeaDog.

The first time you register a device, it will send 4Mb to 5Mb, which includes the Rosetta program. You only get that once. After that, I usually see something downloaded between 1/2 Mb and 1 Mb for each workunit, plus whatever you uploaded.

If you are worried about these numbers, the whole month's usage is probably the size of webpages you can browse in a few minutes or so on broadband. The amount you transfer here is probably very low compared to all of the other browsing you do....and all you see here is a little spurt whenever you finish a workunit. On my fastest computer, it's as little as 1.75 hours. On my slowest, it's 8 to 13 days.