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  Lets get those lost blocks

That's 3!

Block! by jmww

The main pool generates the work, all (main and nodes) submit blocks.
Submitting a block on a node that no one is mining to, has no chance of causing any problems if it fails.
The initial test worked fine.

I've now switched 3 of the nodes over to the 0.13.1 version.
Aside: the SG node is now a new one, no longer linode. I've also setup a us-east node so it's close to the us-east fibre relay.
The 0.13.1 has, of course, continued to work as expected on the 3 nodes with the new blocks

The work generation for core bitcoind is different now because they have put segwit in it and I'll need to do work generation testing (without segwit) before I switch that over.
Simply, it will require more testing than needed for nodes.

Everything is either 0.13.0 or 0.13.1, but 0.13.1 has a small advantage with using the fibre relay.

That's a nifty lil tidbit of info right there.
I just went to http://192.168.x.x/cgi-bin/minerAdvanced.cgi on my new R4 Batch 2, and sure enough, the Freq Mod page comes up.
Not going to mess with my R4 B2 tho, it's been hashing like a champ since day 1 (which was only 4 days ago). Like they say 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it.'
Thanks ComputerGenie.

They just removed the link, the old page still works; like: http://192.168.1.202/cgi-bin/minerAdvanced.cgi

The main reason they removed is is because the newer hash boards are preset per chip (one could be 512 and another 693), they wanted 1 firmware to update each time they modded something (instead of 10), and setting frequency on the newer ones does nothing but make you feel like you have some say in the matter.

To be explicit about it (I think it was sort of answered but not directly), the BMminer v 1.0 firmware is the non-autotune firmware.  The autotune firmware is BMminer v 2.0.

The autotune firmware takes away under\overclocking (as mentioned) but it also takes away manual fan speed control which is a bit lame.  This of course only applies to upgrading the firmware on the earlier models that came with the non-autotune firmware, because if you bought a later model that came with the autotune firmware you never had control of those things anyway.  You cannot downgrade a newer model to a non-autotune firmware but you can upgrade an older model to the autotune firmware, but it will not autotune hashboards that are not designed for autotune.  So basically if you upgrade an older model it will just run at whatever frequency you tell it is stock.  Blockchainmines mentioned this already but when you install the autotune firmware on an older model it asks you to set the stock freq and then it runs at that.  If you mix and match hashboards (like if one breaks and you get a replacement) then the new style hashboards will autotune and old ones will not within the same miner (meaning that the firmware will autotune the boards that are capable of it and run the others at whatever it was told stock freq is).

The earlier versions of the auto-tune firmware had fan speed issues that made the speed go up and down like a yo-yo, the newest versions are more stable in terms of fan speed.  It is still a gamble though to upgrade, I have seen a few accounts were people had serious problems after trying to put the autotune firmware on an older S9.

yeah I could use some block action,

So the last two blocks were 103 and 90  that is okay

A block at less than 100% diff!  Finally, let's get some green to go with our red for more holiday spirit!!

Block by cobramining !

BTClock!) by cobramining with 507.20THs ) 2th block for the day!

Right now the only firmware you can get is the auto frequency.  Up until about a month ago they still had the manual frequency there also.

I only have one miner still using the manual freq. The rest are using the auto freq. The auto for me runs great. I left them at the default freq. Now do understand that the majority of my miner are being hosted.And I can completely understand why a home miner would want to be able to control the freq on the fly.

This may be a silly question and I may have missed a thread that could have explained this but here you go.  Why wouldn't you do the same update to the main pool? 

I don't know about auto-tune but it sucks!  You have one shot to pick your frequency and then it is locked in and that tab disappears in the settings.  The only way to try different frequency to find the optimal setting is to re-flash the entire device and choose another frequency and subsequently get re-locked in.  I myself am a default kinda guy.  I don't overclock, or mess with the settings along as it hashes like it supposed to.  However in some cases I have found on the S9's or all antminers I have used since the S2 for that matter that is struggling are to run, by bumping it up in 12.5 MHZ increments (or down, but obviously first you want up) you can usually find a stable setting and life goes on.  However I had one unit (S9) that I decided to upgrade the firmware on and thats when I found this stupid frequency issue.  They (bitmain) even warns you about it before you do it, but since it was one unit I went with it.  I don't know what the purpose of it was other than to stop or discourage people from bouncing all over the place with the frequency.  I suppose a lot of people damage their units with this option trying to squeeze every last hash out of their unit.  What they don't understand is if the frequency is too high the machine actually runs slower.  This isn't like a hyper-hash drive in a star wars movie.  This was probably bitmains way to try and curtail the trouble reports.   

I'm not going near them.

I spent enough time for a couple of years updating and fixing their crappy hack driver and they've never used any of the fixes I've done.
-ck has made improvements in core cgminer that they have also ignored.

Speak to them about it ...

Maybe it was already answered 

Kano, do you see any possibility to upgrade to the newest version of the cgminer with these S9's ?
I guess it is much harder than it was with for example with the S1 and S2?

Well, in case it wasn't obvious ...
I have no idea about what firmware runs in what S9
So I didn't answer before, but maybe I should bump this for someone else to answer?

Not offence taken,  and yes a share is the correct term. I will look further into how the pool generates the work for the miner, the response and what it is combined with from the pool to form the answer.

My thanks to Kano for expanding on BDR as well.

I started to mine is late 2014. Prices were in the low $200 and often dip below. The s4 were just released. I still own the bitcoin that I mined then today. I was breaking even at the time when price were at $220. You are right its a shitty deal with the current difficulty and the halving but I'm sure the price will continue to balance its self so that miners are made whole. What is more of a worry to me in the Chinese proportion of the hash rate!