Topic: Setting Up Antminer S1 with Wi-Fi Antenna (Read 17062 times)

Thanks for the guide

I used the antennas out of old laptops.  I have a computer shop so I have a million of these.  Most of the time they are adhesive and just "stick" right to the frame.

example: http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/WNC-Laptop-Internal-Wireless-Antenna-WiFi-for-Intel-6230-6235-MINI-PCI-E-U-FL/724414_1918904942.html

Not recommending this particular one but a good example.

I used some from an old (dead) D-Link router I had sitting around, and I got some others from Newegg. They had a few to choose from, and if memory serves I wound up with some of these:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833998199

Sorry to bump a dead thread, but what wireless antenna did you use and where did you get it? I can’t find one anywhere!

It also greatly depends onhow much is going on with your wifi network. If it is under any sort of heavy load, the issues will be far more noticeable.

usually ethernet is more reliable than wifi.

Also had no issue over several months, though I was operated undervolted. Consistent and reliable (as far as the wifi connection goes anyway, right up to the point the units died).

To each his own. My Wifi S1s have been up 24/7 for over a month now, with no loss of hashrate reported poolside. Two of them lost signal after a router reboot on one occasion. No other anomalies though so far.

Wifi just isn't reliable enough.

Thanks for the post! I just can't connect to my miner using the browser though when I do this, unless I connect via Ethernet. 

I saw this thread months ago and didn't pay much attention as I had plenty of ethernet ports available at the time. Yesterday I ran out of ports and moved a lot of miners around, including some S1s that needed to go wireless now.

The thread entries, especially the posts from reduxde (OP), were really handy as all the other tutorials I've found left out important info, particularly info about changing  WAN to DHCP once the WWAN is set to static.

Hence the bump - I'm guessing more people will move their S1s to wireless non-prime locations as the miners age, and the thread can help them.

Edit: yikes - I forgot to mention my "big discovery" - after the change to wifi, I still couldn't reach the miner from a PC until I rebooted the router (Netgear R7000), even though the S1 was obviously mining and its hashing showed up fine at a pool. Now, after the router reboot, the S1 luci gui interface works fine again even though the S1 is no longer tethered to the router by an ethernet cable.

Hi, i received another S1 today, with wifi antenna.

Mmmmm i think all S1 have assigned the same IP, is that correct? So, maybe if i connect it using wifi , new one will have same IP that the old S1, so... do i need to change the IP of new S1 i suppose, but how? i have to connect it using cable first and change IP that way???

thanks

edit: ok, found how to change ip here

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/setup-troubleshoot-bitmain-antminer-s1-180ghs-miner-344970

So I had the same issue, I got it working.

My issues were two fold, I had entered the wrong password and under advanced settings the mode was set to G+N. I've had issues with wireless N in the past so I killed N by setting it to Wireless-G only.
Instantly everything worked.

While wifi does seem to work okay, I've found cabling to be much more reliable.

Also note that if you are using consumer grade wifi equipment and trying to connect dozens of ant s1's to your access point, the access point is likely the problem.

I have a couple dozen units successfully connecting via wifi, but they are very close to the WAP and it's an enterprise grade WAP that can easily handle a few dozen simultaneous connections (in fact it can handle over 100...take a look at the ubiquity stuff).

Hash speed and everything else seems about the same as the wired ones (i get a lot of variation even between wired ones), and on my local stratum server, the reported MS response times for the wired vs wireless are the same.

However in the end i've decided to stick with wired wherever/whenever possible.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

Been slamming my head against the wall on this.

This was great. I removed the wifi antenna from my fios router (which only acts as a bridge to my Apple router) and added it to an ant; now going to move it to another room in the house, so my wife can dry her hair in the morning without tripping over one of the circuits every day :p

Hello,

should i buy antenna with Male connector or female connector?

below is RP-SMA Female connector, works with device with RP-SMA Male connector
http://www.ebay.in/itm/tplink-tl-ant2408cl-2-4ghz-8dbi-indoor-omni-directional-antenna-tp-link-/321344345402?pt=lh_defaultdomain_203

Does this work?
Help pls.

I'm having issues setting up the wifi to the antminer. I have factory reset the unit twice, and followed the set up exact both times.
I have a wifi antenna attached also. I also have 3 other ants running wifi, it's just the new on I received yesterday that's no working.

Plugged in Ethernet loged in 192.168.1.99
Changed Wan to DHCP
Save and apply, Reboot

Log into 192.168.1.8
Selected network tab, scan, and this is what it reads,

97%    Neighbors
Channel: 1 | Mode: Master | BSSID: 00:18:E7:E6:3E:24 | Encryption: mixed WPA/WPA2 - PSK

Click Join, enter wpa, change network name to Neighbors, Submit
Then it goes to general setup

    [Signal: 0 dBm / Noise: 0 dBm]
0%    Mode: Unknown | SSID: Neighbors
BSSID: 00:18:E7:E6:3E:24 | Encryption: -
Channel: 11 (0.000 GHz) | Tx-Power: 0 dBm
Signal: 0 dBm | Noise: 0 dBm
Bitrate: 0.0 Mbit/s | Country: US

Click save and apply
Then I reboot without Ethernet cable, and no wifi

Miner runs great with Ethernet,

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Thank you,

You cannot have DHCP WWAN and static IP for WAN, if you do the static IP WAN takes precedence and works as the highest priority route to the Default Gateway.

Only if your router can see it in the first place. Having my router assign a static IP to the ethernet wan did not get me wifi. Setting my wan to DHCP Client and setting a static IP for my wwan and restarting with cable unplugged did not get me wifi either.

1st of all, I DEFINITELY appreciate not needing to wade through the general questions and irrelevant stuff posted elsewhere (the Setup and troubleshooting thread)  This definitely fixed my headache.  I had my setup working fine and I was just 'insistent' on having static IP for my devices so that they stay persistent even after power outages.  I'm trying to point them to a stratum server so that I can easily change pools without needing to ip/ssh into them all.

I will try one as a test with a static IP - I was ignoring WAN altogether but now I'll do as suggested and change it to dchp as well

It connects to wifi with static ip but it doesn't mine, I did have ipv4 broadcast empty as well as custom dns empty, filling that in with my router ip and trying this: okay 10 minutes and two reboots, the miner isn't giving a d/c noise and I can still reach it on the network, but it refuses to mine which shows me that Static IP with wireless isn't possible on these machines 




[bu..bu...bu..but use Ethernet its better anyway! - for my layout and # of devices that is a sheer PITA and as others here said, my wifi setup works fine on DCHP]

For stability connection, you can use cable and connect via switch hub

only 32min test, did not oc since my psu are very low on amps. soon i get new psu and then go oc

Shitty speeds though.... 

If you have a problem, post in the thread in my sig. Separate troubleshooting threads just dilute the knowledge.

try to access your wifi ant with 192.168.1.135 or 136 or 134

Also using S1 via wifi here. This is actually the set of steps I took and it works. The silly issues I had that gave me trouble are both mentioned here so this thread has value. The fact I was originally mining via Eth meant I'd configured a static IP on the WAN interface. I couldn't access the web interface when solely on wifi until I switch WAN back to DHCP as mentioned about, and, most stupidly, I didn't do a full reboot after finally unplugging the Eth, as soon as I'd done this and fired it back up, the GUI was available as normal on the WirelessWAN IP.

because many posts state that they cannot access their ant thru wifi but mine is ok. also no stales here

Your router should also be able to assign it a static IP

thank you , I also managed to access my ant s1 thru wifi with 192.168.1.136 but maybe yours 135 or 134 try a view until connect, and to complete the post #6 instructions https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4884679 dont forget to press save and apply b4 restart, I did not do that 1st.

Only if you have a crap WiFi connection, if your WiFi is working correctly then there is no difference.

u will get lots stales / rejects with wifi

No difference in performance for me. I'm still running at a stable OC'ed 200ghs off of wifi for days now with no interruption.

I'll need to do this soon... Any performance difference with WiFi?

Hopefully this is easy...

Thanks for the guide, got my miner working via Wi-Fi!

THATS GOT IT!

OK so just to duplicate ALL the information I found useful here (thanks to elduce for passing on mwax321 suggestion), here is how to get the wifi antenna working & what to do if you screw it up.

1) Select WiFi, scan for networks, add your wifi network with whatever the defaults are (create a new WWAN interface, etc).  Just do it the way you would if you had no idea what you were doing.
2) Go back and select the interface for WAN, edit it, and change from STATIC to DHCP CLIENT and click the button directly below it to change the type (not the save or save & apply, but directly next to it to change the type, it might be like "REALLY CHANGE TYPE?", click yes).
3) Unplug the machine, unplug the ethernet cable, plug the electricity back in, wait about 30 seconds.

In the even you screwed up your wifi settings, there is a RESET button on the "card" that the ethernet cable plugs into with white text labeling "S2" (i think, my eyes aren't great).  On my particular machine this button did nothing, so i had to manually do a hard reset.  On the original version, there may not be a button.

If you completely f~k up your machine and cant get back into it, this is how to reset
https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FUa75bkY.jpg&t=536&c=Ah9HaW4XprLEGA
https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FUa75bkY.jpg&t=536&c=Ah9HaW4XprLEGA

I can't draw on this image, but i'll describe as best I can using my newbish vocabulary.
Two points of interest:
The big blueish-purpleish chip thing where the wifi antenna wire plugs in.  On the left side of that are 11 connections to the green silicon board.  Not the one on the very bottom, but the one right above that (2nd one).
To the left and up from that about an inch away there is a red light.  Directly left of that are two metal dots.  The upper-most dot that's closest to the red light.

You need to bend a paperclip and touch both of these at the same time while the machine is plugged in.  Not for very long, half a second is all it takes, the machine (and possibly you) will have a sudden heart attack and go completely dark & silent very abruptly.  There should be no risk of electrocution here, but bear in mind I'm just kind of stumbling through to-do lists without a good understanding of what I'm doing here, so no guarantees.  After a lengthy (was nearly 10 minutes for me) boot up, the machine will put itself back on 192.168.1.99.  I never needed to change my computer to static IP or change my router to 192.168.2.1 for any of this, but apparently the older models default to 192.168.2.99 so you need to move your router from 192.168.2.1 (which will kick all your computers off the wifi).

I now have this noisy stinky filthy (possibly radioactive) machine grinding away in my basement.

I love the Antminer S1, and I really like this company, but I'm also quite happy to have this thing out of my room

edit:
Sorry, I actually took about an hour pawing through the thread & didn't find what I was looking for.  Rather than having every possible problem the machine can encounter all in one thread it would make sense to have threads addressing and solving specific problems for better indexing.

Feel free to delete the thread

Have you even read my comment? Its not about reading the whole thread but posting questions as a new thread.
What would happen if each member start a new thread with the concrete question?
He can ask questions regarding ant setup in appropiate thread and wait for an answer, like everybidy else.

Edit
He posted problem as a new thread earlier, however this new thread seems to turn up for solution how to setup antminer wifi.
It need to replace solution post with opening post and thread got a purpose and can be usefull

S1 Troubleshoot Thread more than 1000 Entries,  do you really expect one to read all that?

Reduxde
Please do not start a new thread of each problem you have. There is a antminer troubleshoot thread so post there.

Hi,
Try to switch WAN to DHCP. By the way, I also had to use hard reset after bringing of interfaces

you could find it using printed version of forum page & find on page browser function in sushi thread

Here are details https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4529537

I managed to lock myself out of the Antminer once already trying to set up the wi-fi antenna, so clearly I'm either over or under-thinking this.

Following Dogie's fabulous guide here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/guide-dogies-comprehensive-bitmain-antminer-s1-setup-hd-355387
And sushi's guide here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/setup-troubleshoot-bitmain-antminer-s1-180ghs-miner-344970

Both state something to the effect of "add your wireless network settings". 

Here is explicitly what i'm doing:
Network > Interfaces > WiFi > Scan for networks
Putting in the password for the network.  It default to creating a new interface called WWAN.
After hitting apply, both WAN and WWAN connect, but they each seem to take a different IP address (the WAN stays on 192.168.1.99, but the wireless jumps on DHCP somewhere, generally 192.168.1.6 or 192.168.1.7).
I unplug the Ethernet cable & it continues to mine for bitcoins using the wifi.

Great, except the problem is if I unplug the power cord & plug it back in, it can't re-establish the connection.  I've attempted taking down my routers firewall completely, creating a port forwarding for my mining port to the dynamic IP address (which is not practical if I have 2 machines mining off wifi), and bridging the connections (which made my machine totally inaccessable via ethernet & forced me to hard reset it).

Once powered back on, the ONLY way to get it mining again is to plug the ethernet cable in for about 30 seconds so it can get connected again, then unplug the cable.  The problem here is that I would like to set the machine up in another room, which means walking an ethernet cable in there and "jump starting" it every time it loses power, which is not particularly practical.