Setting up the review takes a few people. Someone to travel (in this case it was me), someone to keep track of where the traveler is as often as possible, someone who knows about building the website, someone to see I’m not way off to the RIGHT or LEFT and way politically wrong on the posts (to avoid remorse after the post) and sacrifices from loved ones around us and my Piggy Bank
Back to the Product Review as it's still ongoing.Even though the Bitmain AntMiner supports built-in Wi-Fi mining, to get the best out of the miner while running Wi-Fi at home, here is an easy solution for you and we tested it for over 24-hours and so far it’s working.
You can use any similar items to make it work. We picked readily available item at the US BestBuy Sotre.
Netgear Model#: WNCE2001-100NAS. (Price was $49.99)If you happens to be living in a dorm, apartment or wherever you can only access to the internet via Wi-Fi, this will make the Bitmain Antminer believe it’s connected to the wired Ethernet and this will not stress the miner.
Bandwidth use during the last 24-hours or more like 36 hours happened to be RX: 38.86 MB (161800 Pkts.) & TX: 14.68 MB (105524 Pkts.)
We purchased the above item to test it out with the Bitmain AntMiner and it worked!
Let's get back to the Miner Info! [UPDATE] We tested the unit for over 24-hour and it did produce about 0.14 BTC in 24 hours.
I updated with the screenshot from BTCGUILD after 24-hour operation of The AntMiner 180GH/S version
Here is more detailed, slower videos.
http://youtu.be/uxgdAT7B_DQhttp://youtu.be/h0MPtkWZ1r8 <== Noise Level from the miner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puHeCjNM6dc <== Initial Trailer Video
Some of you called the trailer cheesy... (I can't give you 1 minute of your time refund. Watch it with your own RISK!
Photo wise, you can download it from
http://www.asic-review.com/public/bitmain_20131118.zip for the next week or so, then I will delete them. (However, you can view them all at
https://www.facebook.com/review.asic )
Please wait their Price Announcement! My guess is in about 4-6 days, a few Hero Members will receive the testing units directly from Bitmain. I'm sure they will talk about the unit's pros and cons from their perspective as well.
Here are after 15-hour adn 36-hour operation of the Bitmain Antminer 180GH/S machine at BTCGUILD. Temperature and hashing seem to be stable! (Updated: over 36-hour operation, the temperature remains the same range) Hashing Rate Reporting after the reboot shows a bit different from the miner's hashing report. (BTCGUILD shows hashing in 160's GH/S for this moment. But the highest I've seen was over 200GH/S, too. So it fractuate both side.
The temperature is steady for the last 20 hours.
44ºC = 111.20ºF
48ºC = 118.40ºF
The system also auto-minotor the real-time temperature of the miner. THe display is in C Degree.
Here are the actual chips. Non-branded chips were the prototype/demo/testing versions at the lab.
Power Consumption. (While hashing at over 180 GH/S) Antec Neo Eco 450W Power Supply Unit in Use for this photo.
Miner was in this box when I received it. Inside the box was padded all the way.
Bitmain AntMiner 180GH/S in Action (Tokyo Japan, Los Angeles California)
This is the BTC GUILD Screen. These miners were fresh out of the production line in the burn-test.
AntMiner has it's own Web Based Control panel that you can configure the miners the way you want it. (One of the screen will show your hashrate, miner temperature, pool info and others.
Miner's Connection to the Internet/Mining Pool
This miner has a built-in Ethernet Port as well as Built-In Wi-Fi. Hard wire use is highly recommended. If you want to use Wi-Fi, if you could, please use one of the Wi-Fi Bridge to maximize the miner's processing power. By using the Wi-Fi Bridge and then plug into the Ethernet Cable from the Wi-Fi Bridge, AntMiner will think it's connected to the Internet via Ethernet. (At BestBuy, this Wi-Fi Bridge is $49.99) * The testing unit's Ethernet Port has 2 led but only 1 green flashes. (This could be the hardware issues, but no effect on mining operation)
Bandwidth use during the last 24-hours or more like 36 hours happened to be RX: 38.86 MB (161800 Pkts.) & TX: 14.68 MB (105524 Pkts.)
When I was there, they were very seroius about the quality control of their units. Many people were assigned to do their hands and visual check and testing to ensure highest quality as possible. It reminded me the good ol'e days Quality Control from the Japanese Manufactures.
Production Lines...
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3638863Preparing the Computer's PSU for the AntMiner was easy! It was just a few minutes of preparation. I will update later with detailed instructions for someone who have never used computer's PSU for the miner's power source.
This unit has a built-in Wi-Fi option, but to get the max mining power & stable mining, Ethernet connection is recommend!
If you must mine via Wi-Fi, I will update you guys with a quick workaround to get the full mining power without taxing the AntMiner with the Wi-Fi Processing.
Also, this machine could be mining efficiently than 3 units of BFL 60GH/S. As others reviewed BFL's 60GH unit to mine about 0.01 BTC a day. At this point it's still going up but less than 24-hour period, it mined BTC 0.06 BTC so far (For newbees, Please DO NOT forget that the difficulties changes almost weekly. The number of BTC you mine with any miners will decrease as the difficulties go up!!
* As this is a sensitive information, I would say, wait for the manufacture to release documentation on the chip/ protocol/ reference design. ASIC Chip business is a really brutal one as many competitors are trying to Spy on others and run Black Ops to get steps ahead.