Quote Originally Posted by John P. Myers View Post
That is absolutely true. Thank you for pointing that out. There are 2 ways to prevent it:

1) click Tools >> Computing Preferences >> Network Usage and change Additional Work Buffer to some value less than 0.50 (i personally keep mine at 0.25). The higher the GPU count, the lower this number may need to be. Also during some competitions where buffering is permitted, you may need to keep an eye on things.
As of BOINC 7.x the way those settings works has changed. I believe it is now min cache and max cache and it won't connect as often. Does that sound correct zombie67? I know you have been using 7.x for quite a while.