I'm deployed to Afghanistan and the internet we have is shotty at best. The upload speed is slow and cuts in and out frequently. I was wondering if anyone knew of any solutions for me so that I could get my data to upload and another download to start a new project. Thanks!

Depends on which project or projects you run. If only Seti, then do know they have bandwidth problems enough on their own, nothing said about external influences. The project only has a 100Mbit (12.5MB/sec) connection to the outside world, through which they try to give work to all 250,000+ computers actively connected to that project; on top of that there are times that they run short Multibeams tasks only, or that they distribute Astropulse tasks (8MB files). Upload 2 of those to slow connections and for several minutes those two will clog the pipes, as there's only a theoretical maximum of 12.5MB to use.

As such, attach to other projects. Ones with large tasks (like ClimatePrediction.net), or with almost unlimited fast internet (Einstein, Primegrid). See http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php, there's plenty of projects to choose from.

As for terminology:
--> Seti, Einstein, CPDN, Primegrid, Rosetta, Milkyway, Enigma, etc. these are projects.
--> Projects release work to you, we call these tasks.
--> After a task is done on your computer, BOINC sends a result back to the server.

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You can also increase your cache size.

This won't help you on Seti, since a bigger cache gives even more problems being filled through their bandwidth problems. E.g. If you already have problems downloading 4 tasks, trying to get 24 in will be even more problematic.

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I'm about as close as I can get to the wifi antenna. My biggest problem is that I'll go from 5kbs up to 0kbs up and when boinc hits 0kbs the it restarts and when it restarts it goes back to 0% is there a way to get it to pick up where it left off?

BOINC automatically continues with uploads and downloads from where it was cut off the last time.

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