How do I ping a pool? Trying to find the best Monero XMR pools for my area!

nc50lc

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Quote from: d4yst4r on April 21, 2018, 11:58:52 PM

Worked like a charm. Thank you.

Average was 74 ms, min 55 ms but max was at 122ms. Should I be looking for a different pool in your opinion?

How many echos (send&receive) your command prompt received? Four? (four can't even define the average)
If yes, try to increase the number of ping request to 100 or 1000 and increase the buffer size from default 32 to 128bytes:

Code:

ping xmr-us-east1.nanopool.org -n 100 -l 128

Then look for the Maximum and the Average, it must be Maximum: <120 ; Average: ≤100.

Tidsdilatation

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Quote from: d4yst4r on April 21, 2018, 11:58:52 PM

Quote from: Vann on April 21, 2018, 08:55:07 PM

Just run an administrator command prompt and ping the stratum server.

Code:

ping xmr-us-east1.nanopool.org

Anything <100ms response is good.

Worked like a charm. Thank you.

Average was 74 ms, min 55 ms but max was at 122ms. Should I be looking for a different pool in your opinion?

122 ms is abit on the edge of max i think. This also depends on where you live and how well ur standard in the country you are in are. For me, anything over 50ms is very bad and i always try to find a better located pool.

d4yst4r

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Quote from: Vann on April 21, 2018, 08:55:07 PM

Just run an administrator command prompt and ping the stratum server.

Code:

ping xmr-us-east1.nanopool.org

Anything <100ms response is good.

Worked like a charm. Thank you.

Average was 74 ms, min 55 ms but max was at 122ms. Should I be looking for a different pool in your opinion?

Vann

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Just run an administrator command prompt and ping the stratum server.

Code:

ping xmr-us-east1.nanopool.org

Anything <100ms response is good.

insider00

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open cmd
use this command

ping eu1.ethermine.org

etc

d4yst4r

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Can anyone help me ping nanopool monero? My mining rewards are lower than calculated on whattomine.com and I may need to switch based on my location.

Or... if anyone knows a pool that is closer to me for mining monero, I am located in the tri-state area of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana.

If you are in my area and have a suggested pool, fire away!

Thanks bitcointalk forum members!

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