Im new here and to ASIC mining, so please excuse my plebishness, still learning!
So i got my S17 5 days ago, it didnt instantly work, because i was getting "Hardware version: Socket connect failed: Connection refused" error, which resolved itself, after running for 5-10min, is this normal?
Yesterday i was testing out stuff (not smart) in the APminertool, i pressed "config" which said "config failed" after it had run
After that the miner disconnected, rebooted i think, here startes the problem;
In the APminingtool the mininer is hashing away, everything looks normal, on the statuspage for the miner everything looks normal all pools are alive and miner is hashing.
But on the antpool dashboard the miner is showing as inactive, and today i didnt get the normal payout that i used to get.
When i go into miner settings on antpool webpage it says that the miner is mining bitcoin, but still marked as inactive.
Im wondering if the error has something to do with the network cable or router, because the lanport on my router is blinking an amber color (dont know if it was amber when everything was working), which i think means 10-100mbit speed, but my router Netgear R6800 is only one year old, and worked just 2 days ago:s I bought a new network cable, that didnt solve the problem.
I also notised that when looking within my router for connected units, the miner shows up, but not with a name, when it was working the miner showed up with the name: antminer, dunno why this happend.
I found a post on the forum
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/antminer-s9-cant-connect-to-the-router-internet-2039569 which talks about a patch cable vs crossover cable solution, dont know how to check what sort my cable is, and how to get ahold of a specific network cable which is a patch cable in this instance, i though they all were the same.
I have tried pinging it through the miner page, mostly get 6/6 but sometimes its 5/6 recived.
I have tried rebooting both the antminer and router many times, dosnt solve the problem.
So the question is where is the fault, and how do i fix it
1 Faulty router?
2 Faulty network cable?
2.1 Wrong network cable?
3 I fucked with some settings when i hit "config" ?
Help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!