At what difficulty would you consider mining at 2TH/s individually, a bad idea?
For instance, if when I get my CoinTerra box the global hash rate is at 2PH/s...I would have approx 0.1% of the global hashing power, I would think at that rate, "going it alone" wouldn't be a bad idea. But the difficulty won't stay put forever, and lets suppose it reaches 4PH/s a couple months later, at which wpint I would only control 0.05% of the global hashing power...is that still enough to be on my own?
At what point is mining within a pool advisable...or should I just plan to get into a pool immediately?
Mining in a pool is advisable because you will always have steady payouts. If your hashrate is high enough to equal the larger pools (very unlikely), then you could solo-mine.
My advice for you is to join a reputable pool with good payouts and low fees.
Thanks b!z
So, I did some reading at the wiki linked above about the different pooling strategies, and it's a bit confusing when you don't understand all the mining lingo. It seems to me that 50BTC would be a decent choice (3% fees PPS)...would you all agree?