Hi,

Brand new to BOINC and just dl BOINC and virtualbox, when I have added a project I get the message saying "communication deferred" and a countdown clock that renew each time it reaches 0.

Why does this happen, and how can I fix this matter? Some ports need to be opened on my router?

Thankful for any help.

Please open the Event Log (CTRL+SHIFT+E) and copy part of it where BOINC talks to the project, then post that here. According to your tasks list you already have work, so there's no need to open any further ports (in your firewall, never in the router). It's possible that BOINC is asking for work in groups, and that the communication deferred is just the timer going down from the previous connection. There will be 306 seconds between normal non-forced connections. Force a connection (Update, or 'do network communications') before this timer is up and it'll just restart.

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