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Don't get discouraged, this drop is really meaningless. Go look at the top 25 teams--heck, look at team default. Everyone's output is down right now (with the exception of 2 or 3 teams out of 25), which tells me either Stanford's released an unusual proportion of big jobs that we're waiting to wrap up (like my two 400-pointers) or the Stanford servers aren't answering correctly. Since I haven't heard anything about the servers, I think it's the first.

Don't try to compare DU to us here, they're putzing along still spitting out the smaller jobs. I expect in the next couple days they will enter a point slump even more extreme and long-lasting than this, since they have fewer computers and my guess is generally slower computers.

Something happened and I lost a work unit that was 81% complete. The odd thing is that I had an IP address conflict on my home network that was coincident with this work unit loss. This is the second time this has happened.

I believe the random method my router uses to assign network addresses might be causing a conflict if I reboot my router and the address assigned to a folding PC changes while F@H is running.

I rebooted everything, the network conflict disappeared and everything started working again. The PC that caused the problem downloaded a new WU and started working on it.

I believe I can force the network address assignment that occurs by connecting the PCs to the router in a specific order, but I can't do that if the router reboot occurs when I'm not around. (Power failure.)

[22:31:43] Writing local files
[22:31:43] Completed 3240000 out of 4000000 steps (81)
[22:46:55] CoreStatus = 1 (1)
[22:46:55] Client-core communications error: ERROR 0x1
[22:46:55] Deleting current work unit & continuing...
[22:47:15] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[22:47:15] + Attempting to get work packet
[22:47:15] - Connecting to assignment server
[22:47:17] Couldn't send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[22:47:17] + Could not connect to Assignment Server
[22:47:17] Couldn't send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[22:47:17] + Could not connect to Assignment Server 2
[22:47:17] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[22:47:17] - Error: Attempt #1 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.