your an IT intern and you don't know what a usb modem is? very very odd

There's always USB or PCI modems you can buy to replace the ethernet socket. Or you could copy the "BOINC" folder from program files to a USB memory stick and then on to an internet connected computer, download work then reverse the process. However, only the internet connected computer will show up on the website stats. It's what I do and is fine if you don't care about credits for specific machines and more about the science being done. If you look at my statsyou will see I appear to have 2 P4 machines. This is the same machine and is the internet connected one. The work gets done on a AMD Athlon64 3000+.

HTH, matt

How do you connect to the internet on your laptop? USB/ethernet modem, or do you have a router?

You set your connect to internet every ... days to .01? So you want BOINC to connect 100 times a day? Seems a bit extreme. When you update to the project, it tries to assure you've got enough work to keep you busy until the next time BOINC will connect. Since you told it to connect 100 times a day, it knows it doesn't need to get much work to meet that goal.

Not sure what you mean about w.e. If you want more work on-hand (for example if you know you will turn off your internet access, but have your computer running) then you want to set the "connect to network every ... days" setting to something larger. The default is .1, which is 10 times per day. If you set it to 1.0 then it will attempt to keep a day of work on your computer, once you update to the project to get the settings change down to your machine.