Topic: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Bitmain Antminer S3 Setup [HD] - page 11. (Read 137777 times)

Few questions:

1- Any idea on why would my S3 show 220GH/S(5s) and 230 GH/S(avg) but GHash shows an avg of 190 GH/S?
Above number goes up/down slightly but are not close. Seems there is a loss of 30+/- GH/S

2- When mining exclusively with GHash my S3 Difficulty shows as 128. I have not tweaked any parameters on this. Should I? Where and what number is the optimal?

3- Do you guys perform any advanced configuration in your S3s other than overclocking them? What's your suggestion?

4- A single S3. Is it still profitable running one at this point? (considering electrical costs)

Cheers!

Mayitzu

The last few revisions were attempting to support one version of S3 PCBs better, which unfortunately may do weird things on earlier S3s. There is no particular reason if you feel you're stable on any firmware after 12/19.


From your perspective no. From a network perspective, yada yada decentralisaiton yada yada. Some will argue that large pools are not good for the economy, but regardless of who it is, there will always be a biggest pool.


No problem, you're questions are valid and better than most newbies.

All ant miners are sha256 only.  They were going to release a scrypt unit back in December but that fell through, presumably due to the low value of scrypt coins currently.

Hello all,

I have an Antminer S3 (God knows what batch! --don't know how to tell).
I have been using Slush and GHash in load balanced mode.

First of, a couple of days ago I decided to upgrade its firmware to the latest available (in https://www.bitmaintech.com/support.htm?pid=007201407180243004432lBQW28O0633) which is [antMiner_S320150109.bin] to date. Unfortunately, as soon as the S3 rebooted, its max hashing power was hovering between 50 and 60 GHs. More over, some of my chips were showing xxxx. I thought I had partially bricked my S3 and started to [panic] move cables around as per some guides. Even considering checking the thermal paste too.

One guide suggested falling back to previous firmware. I had performed a backup but had no clue which firmware I had. So, I fell back to the very first [antMiner_S320140711.bin] and it worked, then I moved up to [antMiner_S320140721.bin] and it worked too, this time I jumped forward to the one to last [antMiner_S320141013.bin], no dice, similar symptoms. Then I moved backwards to [antMiner_S320140826.bin] and this one worked and was a keeper.

Anyone knows if the last two firmwares are faulty/buggy? Why would they fail to hash to 200+ GHs (overclocked)? Is there a way to make the latest firmware work? I noticed, while I had it that the GUI was faster, not that I really miss a lot though.

Also, I'd like to try multipool mining with GHash but the "-scrypt -o stratum+tcp://multi.ghash.io:3333" entry in the GUI does not work. Is SHA256 and SCRYPT at the same time possible in the S3? Any opinions or experiences with this? Should I not bother?

Last question for the experts/veterans: If it is known that GHash is the largest pool in the world. Why would I not want to pool exclusively with them and keep balancing with Slush, for instance? I understand I stand a better chance at solving "more" and "more often" blocks with GHash than anyone else. Right? I know the share also is smaller, but then more frequent pennies isn't better than "rare" dimes?

Excuse my ignorance. I'm totally new to this!   
(threat: more questions coming in the near future... )

Mayitzu

I can not connect directly to the router at this location. I'll give it one more try tomorrow - maybe reset to defaults?
If this will not work I'll change location where I can connect to router.
Thanks for reply dogie.

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Edit: OK it worked from first try after reset and restart.
Also changed fans to THIS. So quiet now and still can manage 225M with 60C on 20C intake. Plus it looks much better with thinner fans

Why don't you try with the S3 connected to the router directly? That way its acting like just another network device, rather than relying on your laptop to get it right. You shouldn't have to change anything else to give it a try once you've moved the cable over.

On something like that its easier if I (or someone else) helps you over teamviewer. There's about 10 things we can keep mashing to get it to work eventually, and its much easier than typing instructions one by one. PM me details when you're about, I'll usually be about sharpish.

I have p2pool node set up on laptop (coinD is synced and connected to network) - for solomining some other coin.
I've connected s3 DIRECTLY to that PC. I can access antminer setup page so I understand network setup is ok.
My PC IP (with the node) is set to 192.168.1.1. (p2pool stats page shows after entering it to webbrowser)
I have only LAN set up on S3 - I guess this is fine since S3 should only connect to local p2pool?

In my S3 pool setup i enter:

pool:192.168.1.1:9374 (this is the port on which node waits for workers)
worker:
password: x

Status page on S3 is empty... "This section contains no values yet"

This is my first antminer so maybe I'm missing something obvious...?
Edit:
My setup

Code:

               Ethernet             WiFi
    S3        <-------->  Laptop <--------> Router (WEB)
192.168.1.99            192.168.1.1
                       running coinD
                      + p2pool node

Yet another wifi question.  I've never needed to use wifi on any of my ants before, but it's either get wifi to work or sell them and I would rather keep them. I don not have any antennas yet, didn't want to buy them until I had wifi working. I have 1 S3+ right next to me on the floor, router on the desk to my left, so 3 feet apart? I have connected one of the wifi cables from an S1 to the S3+ to see if it would help, case is still off.  When I scan for networks, I get something like 92% for my network and can even see a few of my neighbors faintly. However when I connect to it I get 0 signal and every now and then a blip of communication under "Associated Stations" in the wifi tab.

I know you have to edit WAN from static to DHCP Client and proceed from there but as far as my understanding that was so you didn't have to jump start it so to speak.

Any ideas? Thanks for reading.

I do have another unit at home, going to see if it acts different.

Thanks

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Easiest to solve this one via teamviewer. PM me details when you're on and I'll fix it.

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I bought some S3's a few weeks ago from someone and I accidentally configured a static IP address on the LAN interface instead of the WAN. Since my Fing app didn't discover the new static address, I rebooted the device, but after that, I couldn't connect to the S3 anymore. The web GUI isn't available, ssh doesn't work and even a ping is not working. However, the device is hashing and I can see in Fing that it still has the same ip address that was given by my router the first time it connected.

I've tried to reset the device in every way I could find on the internet, but the device just won't reset to factory defaults. Every time I reboot, it starts hashing again and gets the same IP address. I gave my laptop that ip address and rebooted the S3, but it doesn't get another address, it just doesn't hash, until I change the settings on my laptop and reboot again.

Any help would be much appreciated.

No problem.

Thank you so much dogie!

Interesting Thank you very much!

If the above is too complicated for you, you could also install teamviewer on a laptop on that network. That way you can always teamviewer in and control the units as if you were at home.

Involves configuring a port on that network router for the S3 like 192.168.1.4 (s3) address then some cusotm port 88 or something then to access from another place goto that routers real IP address:88, A static Ip address for that network would make it alot simpler. But you can use a dynamic IP as well as long as you know what that IP changes to when it changes
Google  "run a server from my home PC"  the same networking technique can be applied to the antminers I do mine this way and control them from anywhere.

You could also use a service like http://freedns.no-ip.com/ and get a free ddns.net domain name point it to that routers real IP

then setup port forwarding inside your router add a different port for each mine


then you can either access it via the ddns domain name or by entering the IP address followed by port number
(ipaddresss):81

Just make sure you setup a strong login so a port scan attack doesnt reveal the ports and someone logs in and takes over your miner. Changing the pool payout and password would be very bad.
Which is why i wont share my DDNS address publically or otherwise I would just be asking to get port scanned and a brute force attack might allow someone to crack my logins Not sure how secure the antminers ssh login system is yet, have not seen any thread about it

If i move my S3 to a another city, is there any way i can control it from where i live (in another city)?

Hihihi chinese stink. It will get warmer in this apartment, in Sweden the summer sux inside we do not have AC here.
I have a boring imac, so the only good thing about it is that its quiet.