Topic: 2 new antminer s9's high lstime (Read 192 times)
Those ping times for antpool are definitely on the high side. I tested it as well and got an average ping time of 242ms. - not to mention that is is 27 hops away for me. This is most likely caused by the GFWOC. I would switch to another pool. I have had a good experience with Slushpool and have some miners on Kano as well.
There’s really no good reason to mine on antpool anyways, considering that after fees you make significantly less bitcoin compared to a pool like Kano or Slush. If you’re okay with the ramp up time and want lower fees than Slush and thus more rewards over time, I’d suggest trying out Kano. It’s community-run and the owner is active and always ready to help. Slush is a decent choice but they’ve also done things like making their hashrate seem greater than it actually was in the past.
I started with Antpool and I feel the mountain and valleys is something with their network. There was no reason for more hashrate to drop like that all day. I switched the slush and my hashrate has been very consistent for the last week. I have seen a couple slight dips that didn't last long but not the jagged fall off the mountain drops all day like antpool.
If the pool hashrate is showing correct it sounds like you're just sending higher diff shares so they take longer to solve. Increases variance but same expected rewards.
Thanks for the heads up. I was thinking the same thing, but the weird part is that average hashrate is right where it should be for 2 S9's. I also pinged the pool and it came back with 132-236 ms, which seems rather high when compared to other pools. I'll try a few ideas when I get a chance.
Miners need almost no network bandwidth. You could be running all of those on a 10mbit HUB and they would work just fine. There is something very strange about waiting so long to submit shares tho. It should be timed in seconds, not minutes. If you say you pinged bitmain do you mean antpool? Because pinging their HTTP server wont help you find your latency to the pool.
I finally got my 2 S9's running in a ducted enclosure and after running for 24 hours I keep seeing Lstime's that sometimes run up to 20 minutes. I pinged bitmain on all of my miners and they show 15-25 ms. My concern was that I have the S9's hooked up to an old 10/100 network switch and the 2 D3's hooked to the 10/100/1000 router. As I haven't had time to try different configs(switch network wire/change to a different pool), I wanted to see if I should even worry. The pool hash rate is a zigzag line as the Lstime creaps up and finally starts over.
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