[350 GH/s] "Eligius" (experimental) pool: almost feeless PPS, hoppers welcome - page 16.

Quote from: phelix on June 02, 2011, 03:52:51 AM

The EU pool on Eligius has been having bad luck recently. Only two blocks solved in the past week! Average should be about 3-4.
It's a pretty small pool, so you are going to have runs of good or bad luck like this. When the luck is better you will make a lot, when the luck is bad, not so much.

Luke: since Eligius is still a little pool, why not join the eu and us pools together to minimize the variance?

I'm not sure why everyone assumes this is easy, or even possible... The main difficulty is finding a way to handle network issues when they can't talk.

how important is ping time in mining? I am throwing my shares at the us server - from europe and it seems to work fine. (ping 130ms at the moment)

Ping is not important, but reliability is. If EU finds a block, and cannot reach US (because of a network problem, or the US pool is down for example), how is it going to distribute the 50 BTC ? And no, waiting is not an option Wink

well then why not simply pull the plug on one of the servers and direct everyone to the same server... also less work for luke and you?

The point of having two pools in the first place is to have a better connectivity, whether you are in the US or in Europe. I'm in France, and I get much less rejected shares / connection problems with the Europe pool.

now that you say it I am getting four times more rejected shares than accepted. I am quite sure it was not like that yesterday...

phoenix and eligius together make a good team to keep me pampering the rig =)

tiberiandusk

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As soon as I get a few more bitcoins I want to buy a cell phone signal repeater for my house so signal won't be a problem. My dad is thinking about getting a 4G Thunderbolt so I'll have to borrow it and see what sort of 4G signal, if any, is available. Eventually I would like to buy some wind turbines and solar panels and go completely off grid and even maybe sell excess power back to the grid. I think it would be sweet to have a mining operation that is entirely self sufficient in case of a major attack on pools or hosting companies or anything. A hard emergency backup plan. All I need are funds. Come on Newegg! Restock those 5870x2's!

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Quote from: Artefact2 on June 02, 2011, 03:50:05 AM

Quote from: Artefact2 on June 02, 2011, 03:50:05 AM

The EU pool on Eligius has been having bad luck recently. Only two blocks solved in the past week! Average should be about 3-4.
It's a pretty small pool, so you are going to have runs of good or bad luck like this. When the luck is better you will make a lot, when the luck is bad, not so much.

Luke: since Eligius is still a little pool, why not join the eu and us pools together to minimize the variance?

I'm not sure why everyone assumes this is easy, or even possible... The main difficulty is finding a way to handle network issues when they can't talk.

how important is ping time in mining? I am throwing my shares at the us server - from europe and it seems to work fine. (ping 130ms at the moment)

Ping is not important, but reliability is. If EU finds a block, and cannot reach US (because of a network problem, or the US pool is down for example), how is it going to distribute the 50 BTC ? And no, waiting is not an option Wink

well then why not simply pull the plug on one of the servers and direct everyone to the same server... also less work for luke and you?

The point of having two pools in the first place is to have a better connectivity, whether you are in the US or in Europe. I'm in France, and I get much less rejected shares / connection problems with the Europe pool.

phelix

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The EU pool on Eligius has been having bad luck recently. Only two blocks solved in the past week! Average should be about 3-4.
It's a pretty small pool, so you are going to have runs of good or bad luck like this. When the luck is better you will make a lot, when the luck is bad, not so much.

Luke: since Eligius is still a little pool, why not join the eu and us pools together to minimize the variance?

I'm not sure why everyone assumes this is easy, or even possible... The main difficulty is finding a way to handle network issues when they can't talk.

how important is ping time in mining? I am throwing my shares at the us server - from europe and it seems to work fine. (ping 130ms at the moment)

Ping is not important, but reliability is. If EU finds a block, and cannot reach US (because of a network problem, or the US pool is down for example), how is it going to distribute the 50 BTC ? And no, waiting is not an option Wink

well then why not simply pull the plug on one of the servers and direct everyone to the same server... also less work for luke and you?

phelix

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at the moment I get about four times as many shares rejected as accepted. I'm not quite sure but I think this is bad news? other pool works with the same card...

Artefact2

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Quote from: tiberiandusk on June 02, 2011, 03:01:48 AM

The EU pool on Eligius has been having bad luck recently. Only two blocks solved in the past week! Average should be about 3-4.
It's a pretty small pool, so you are going to have runs of good or bad luck like this. When the luck is better you will make a lot, when the luck is bad, not so much.

Luke: since Eligius is still a little pool, why not join the eu and us pools together to minimize the variance?

I'm not sure why everyone assumes this is easy, or even possible... The main difficulty is finding a way to handle network issues when they can't talk.

how important is ping time in mining? I am throwing my shares at the us server - from europe and it seems to work fine. (ping 130ms at the moment)

Ping is not important, but reliability is. If EU finds a block, and cannot reach US (because of a network problem, or the US pool is down for example), how is it going to distribute the 50 BTC ? And no, waiting is not an option Wink

Also, I wanted to thank back all the people that helped me improving the graphs here and on IRC ! As you can see, the total paid is displayed as well.

phelix

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The EU pool on Eligius has been having bad luck recently. Only two blocks solved in the past week! Average should be about 3-4.
It's a pretty small pool, so you are going to have runs of good or bad luck like this. When the luck is better you will make a lot, when the luck is bad, not so much.

Luke: since Eligius is still a little pool, why not join the eu and us pools together to minimize the variance?

I'm not sure why everyone assumes this is easy, or even possible... The main difficulty is finding a way to handle network issues when they can't talk.

how important is ping time in mining? I am throwing my shares at the us server - from europe and it seems to work fine. (ping 130ms at the moment)

I was mining over satellite internet and it was having empty queue errors all the time at higher aggression. I have since switch to a wireless tether to my cell phone and it seems to be doing better. My signal sucks here out in the boonies and it would probably be way better if I had more than a quarter bar.

extension antenna?

tiberiandusk

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The EU pool on Eligius has been having bad luck recently. Only two blocks solved in the past week! Average should be about 3-4.
It's a pretty small pool, so you are going to have runs of good or bad luck like this. When the luck is better you will make a lot, when the luck is bad, not so much.

Luke: since Eligius is still a little pool, why not join the eu and us pools together to minimize the variance?

I'm not sure why everyone assumes this is easy, or even possible... The main difficulty is finding a way to handle network issues when they can't talk.

how important is ping time in mining? I am throwing my shares at the us server - from europe and it seems to work fine. (ping 130ms at the moment)

I was mining over satellite internet and it was having empty queue errors all the time at higher aggression. I have since switch to a wireless tether to my cell phone and it seems to be doing better. My signal sucks here out in the boonies and it would probably be way better if I had more than a quarter bar.

phelix

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