also, some other posts say you need to be in the giga hash range or tera hash range to actually succeed at solo mining. If my 2 machines are roughly 800-900 mhash, does that mean i am like, in the gigahash ballpark? .8 or .9 Ghash, right?
Today's network hashrate is ~25 Thash/s. Your hashing rate may be ~1 Ghash/s. Therefore, you are entitled to approximately 0.00004 of the block rewards. Daily, there are 6*24=144 blocks mined, currently rewarding finders 144*50=7,200 coins. Therefore, your entitlement is approximately 0.000004*7,200=0.29 coins per day. To get 50 coins - an equivalent of finding one new block - you'd need to mine for 173 days. Factor in some variance. Of course, as you know, the reward will be halving in a few days from now.
