Topic: ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread - page 378. (Read 710164 times)

I actually did by mistake...clocked one to 237.5 and it ran OK.  I put it back after realizing it was one I had not doubled up the PCI-e on yet.

Has anyone tried over-clocking with just 2 pci-e wires? And if so how high have you been able to OC?

Maybe i was to harhs to say down the drain. But i compering s1 to s3 situation. And thought maybe they will do same what they done with s1.
I bought abut 20+ s1 with sushi and bitmain and never had any issues.

I still think mining is something which will make few BTC before is not profitable anymore but for small people like me is getting more difficult and will not be easier.
10 units will make roughly 3 BTC a month.

no miner is for sale at a better price and faster delivery.

have they slipped from the s-1 yeah  just a bit.  down the drain no.

down the drain would be what knc did from the early jupiter last nov to this years neptune.

Based on all that i can see and read. these s-3's are better then the s-2's  but not quite as good as the s-1's.

By that I mean all aspects of the miner.   I ordered 4 so far I have 2 hashing 2 on the way.  when they come I will order 2 more.

 after those 2 come I will assess my next move.  right now the mining game is very tough.

1. right and have no issues with that. Just saying this is not anymore from stock-but preorder.
2. by doing what? S1 was labeled "game gateway" and was fine for months, no one was violating any laws.
3. thats true and have to admit EU laws are silly.


Did anyone heard about modding s1?

And the people who are happy do not post on this thread.

Have you actually looked up anything you are spouting off, almost every one of your points is quite wrong.

1. Delivery times clearly posted on the site for B4 and B5.
2. You are suggesting they violate customs law by changing the labeling to something it is not?
3. Your country's customs helps dictate that, why don't you lookup your countries regulations and figure out what makes the most sense to you since the answer is different for everyone.

Like someone else previously said, if you're worried about customs with large orders, just order 5 sets of 2.  If 1 or 2 get questioned, the others will still be delivered.  This wasn't my idea, but it sounds logical.

I'm  just looking at this thread and bitmain site. And what i can see, quality went down the drain.i mean, quality in regards of delivery on time, process of any refunds, simple information to community.

Now it seems bitmain asking for btc in advance which is basically preorder.
With s1 there was no issues related to delivery of miners. Now im reading people waiting to get their s3 mining week or more!
I was hesitating to order B1,B2,B3 and it seems i didnt lost a lot. as all batches was delayed and now batch 4 and 5 is simple proeorder with no warranty that will be delivered in time frame given.

I dont know whats the issue is but even labeling boxes as miner means issues for end user.
I am fan of bitmain but at this stage whats the point of ordering when their are not in stock?

Price is nice but again waiting time for B5 will kill any profit if any. We looking at least 14 days to receive any miner. What if customs will delay the process? Whats safe quantity to order? I was thinking to order 10. Any ideas how this will look for customs?

They told me that it will be processed tomorrow. :-)

I just sent them a message asking about my refunds and got a zero reply.

Wow, Bitmain we are loyal and buy everything you got and then you promise to give us refunds and then just ignore us. That sucks! 

Yes, this originally came from a mod for the S1 to tune P2P. The difference I did not address the shares as most pools now (if not all and except for P2P) use stratum.

Hey Duce,

I'm browsing these threads while I wait on my 2 S3's (currently in Louisville.).
I've had an S1 for a couple months - works well but I notice it's discarded is pretty high.  (currenlty 21000 discarded and 31000 accepted.)
WIll your mod work for the S1 as well?  Couldn't find anything on the net about high discards on the S1.
In other words, adding  --queue 0 and add --scan-time 1 --expiry 1 be okay for S1?

Thanks!
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No, I used the opportunity to change to coupons and bought two more miners.

Anyone received refunds? I was told that by the end of the week I would have it. I am starting to wonder whats up?

DNS on my 12 S1's and 2 S3's (soon to be 12 S3's) are set to 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4 & 10.0.0.1 (the gateway router) in that order. This gateway router has a static IPv4 IP, so the DNS entries for the gateway router are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, respectively. So if the miner can't hit the first 2 DNS IP's it queries the router which then re-triies 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

Most home networks use either the 192.168.0. or 192.168.1. nets. So your gateway router will likely be either 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 versus 10.0.0.1

8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are Google's universal DNS server IP's and are good globally as they map to local DNS server(s) based on the IP geographical origin of the requesting IP.

So in America, 8.8.8.8 maps to an American homed Google DNS server, but in Russia 8.8.8.8 maps to a Russian homed DNS server.

For us, using 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4 makes our DNS "fire and forget". The only drawback is that Google now knows what DNS queries your gear is making. We obfuscate that information by running all that packet traffic through an encrypted VPN tunnel to one of our VPN servers located in Manassas, VA. So the only thing Google knows is that that server is resolving addresses for the respective mining pool intermingled with the DNS requests of thousands of other VPN users. Done this way it is impossible for Google to correlate DNS requests to a particular miner or the static IP the gateway router has.

Hope this helps.

This B3 order was for 10.  Which, BTW, shipped exactly when Bitmain said it would.

Previous B2 order quantity was 2, flowed through American customs without a hitch (just all the S1's I previously bought 2 at a time).

Thanks for the confirmation that international orders like these get "flagged" due to stated dollar value.

Mental note to self, order in quantities of 2 and "stay under the radar".

Minimum order quantities also make sense because if customs flags a particular shipment of a multi-unit order then only 2 would be held up by customs.

Regarding UPS customer service, called them last night, and the twit I spoke to indicated that UPS would call me NLT Monday @ 10:00. So basically I'm on ignore till Monday till somebody in that department gets off their butt and calls. I'm gonna poke around their website and see if I can't find that form you spoke of.

Thanks for the get back. Thought it was something foolish.

Yep, Mine cleared customs here in Japan right away & was delivered less than 24hrs after landing it seems. Wish Bitmain had thought about the registered price tho, got stung US$40 for duty.

on mine I just set the DNS to my ipv4 Gateway & its hashing away fine.  Should it actually be set as something else?

Agreed!