Topic: How intense is the network traffic when mining? (Read 11032 times)
Must have missed a decimal place lol
It's minimal. I've mined by tethering my cellphone during an outage and with 10gh it was only 20mb a day.
I would estimate network traffic over 24hrs would avg at 32-64Kbit/s per GH so it can still add up to quite a bit of bandwidth usage on a limited plan depending on what plan you have.
I did not check my network traffic. I consider it insignificant as well. However, 64Kbit/s is not insignificant. This is 8KB/s which is 480KB/min which is 28MB/h which is 675MB/day which is 19.8GB/mo. This is like a bit over 4 DVDs per month or 1 DVD per week.EDIT: I measured my rig:
3.54 (Kbit/s) / (GH/s) download (received)
3.34 (Kbit/s) / (GH/s) upload (transmited)
These numbers are close to what I was seeing when running on btcguild.com. It can add up when you start adding lots of GH/s and your upload is low. I was using 256kbit upload and it was noticeable when the farm was running and when it was off.
I think it has been discussed that it depends on the pool. This dependancy isn't much though, I measured 10GH a while back for 24 hours and got ~6bits/s
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.913383
Measured @ 8GH
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.913383
Measured @ 8GH
6bits/s ? huh, I think you made some huge miscalculations there. a single getwork is allready 180bits in size afaik.
I do agree on one thing though, rollntime pools would require 3-4x less bandwidth than non-rollntime pools.
I think it has been discussed that it depends on the pool. This dependancy isn't much though, I measured 10GH a while back for 24 hours and got ~6bits/s
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.913383
Measured @ 8GH
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.913383
Measured @ 8GH
I would estimate network traffic over 24hrs would avg at 32-64Kbit/s per GH so it can still add up to quite a bit of bandwidth usage on a limited plan depending on what plan you have.
I did not check my network traffic. I consider it insignificant as well. However, 64Kbit/s is not insignificant. This is 8KB/s which is 480KB/min which is 28MB/h which is 675MB/day which is 19.8GB/mo. This is like a bit over 4 DVDs per month or 1 DVD per week.EDIT: I measured my rig:
3.54 (Kbit/s) / (GH/s) download (received)
3.34 (Kbit/s) / (GH/s) upload (transmited)
I would estimate network traffic over 24hrs would avg at 32-64Kbit/s per GH so it can still add up to quite a bit of bandwidth usage on a limited plan depending on what plan you have.
Traffic is almost 0. It is very insignificant. It will rise with your hashrate, but again, it will still be insignificant and you won't run into any problems on a limited plan.
hello,
since i consider mining on a limited data plan to save money, i would like to know how much traffic mining generates.
i was looking at my windows network monitor and saw almost zero traffic, is that possible?
does the traffic rise with the hashrate?
thanks!
since i consider mining on a limited data plan to save money, i would like to know how much traffic mining generates.
i was looking at my windows network monitor and saw almost zero traffic, is that possible?
does the traffic rise with the hashrate?
thanks!
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