Wonder what's driving the questions about combining miners together.
Do you have a restriction on ethernet ports, or is it an issue of running multiple rigs?
Might help for the community to know the background on why the "default" configuration is less-than-desirable.
Ron
For me at least, being new, when i first saw what the pool stats of a mining pool looked like, i saw how much all the "top end" workers were mining due to their high hash rate.
Initially i thought it was just one machine doing all that hashing. Then i soon realized you couldnt possibly get such high hash rates with just a single machine, youd need to start combining them.
So i thought in order to mine the most you had to have the highest total/combined hash rate set on one worker alone.
Only recently i learnt that was not the case...
Oh...what is this less-than-desirable default configuration to be aware of? ^^
By "less-than-desirable" I mean that keeping it simple is often the best approach unless you have some other need which needs to be addressed.
In my case, I had a bad orange pi on a 150 Mini, so I took out the bad orange and rather than buying another one I just connected it to anothe 150 Mini to make a single 300.
The totals do add up correctly. In that if I had a 900 or 6x 150's I would earn the same amount regardless of if it's connected as a single worker through a single ethernet or as 6 workers on 6 ethernets.
I prefer the more granular approach, as it makes debugging a miner easier to locate. For example, sometimes my 600 drops a miner, and goes to 450, and I have to bounce the entier thing to get it back to 600. If I was running 4x 150's then I would only have to bounce the one which was not working, and leave the other 3 mining while the bounce is going on.
In the end, it's your choice, as long as you don't go over the limits which Baikal spoke generally about earlier. I think that was that at most 6 Mini's on a single orange pi.
Again, I don't know how the 900's are configured, or if they use a orange pi or something else.
