Well thanks everyone, after 3 days of trying. Opening god knows how many ports on my router disabiling software firewalls. Several requests for asistance on forums, reading every thread in fourms regarding connection problems, uninstalling and reinstalling 4 time, uninstaling cleaning registry and signing up with a new account. I still can not maintain a connection that is fast enough to get a WU. so for my 3 active days I managed to get 5 WU's done your welcome for that.

When you guys decide to take this seriously let me know I will be glad to help out. Until then I'm done screwing around.

See this thread regarding this "port scan":
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=696

First review this page on Network Settings

Second, you shouldn't need to touch your firewall, unless you have to authorize specific applicaitons access to the Internet. For the most part, if you can surf the web, the agent should work. This is indicated by the fact that you said you start receiving some data but then it ends, so you are at least connecting.

Finally, I'm not sure why you're not getting data. Work units aren't 3MB in size, so maybe the agent is trying to download the updated application. You can surf the web, so I understand why you would think the problem is at our end, but I know my machines and thousands of others have downloaded this update and work units in the past several days with no delay. Based on this, I don't see a problem at our end. The only thing I can think of is that the partition that you installed the Agent in is full.

I'm sorry I can't help you more. Is there any other information you can provide? How far does the download get? Does it always end at the same byte count? Does it complete the download then fail afterwards somehow? What does the agent do before and after?

Additional Update.

I did not uninstall WCG on my laptop and as soon as I got to work It imediatly connected and is alreadey working.

So it is my router at home but I'll be darned if I know what.

TaoWarrior --

I am not sure if you have seen the "unable to connect" message from this thread. If you are seeing that, perhaps you have the Storage in your device profile set too high. That was a problem on one of my systems. I had it set to 10 GB. After reducing that to 5 GB, the system completed a download and started to work. To check to see what you have it set to, click the Storage button on the WCG Agent window on your system. If it reports something around 10 GB (I don't know why, but it always reports slightly under what it is set for), then you might try to set it down some. Go to the Member Area page and you will see "Device Manager" in the list at the left. Click that and you should see your systems listed and the profile they are using. I am going to guess that the profiles are all named DEFAULT as they are on mine. Anyway, click one of the profiles. In the page that is returned, the second line indicates the Hard Drive Space to Allocate. If you presently have 10 GB selected. Click open the pull-down and you can change the value to any value from 10 MB up to 10 GB. I have my systems set for 5 GB (there were posts earlier in the support forums indicating people were having trouble connecting when they assigned 10 GB and I had that problem on one of my systems until I reduced it to 5 GB). After you have made the change, click the save button at the bottom. After you have made this change, your local systems will not show the new value until the next time they return a work unit and get the next one. Hope this helps.

-- Dave Bell