Hey, i'm hispano, a new user of monero.
let me tell you my problem.
I want to mine monero, and its the first coin i am going to mine, so i'll be surely mistaken about lots of things.
I downloaded the monero software from getmonero for 64 bits windows and i downloaded/synced the blockchain.
I'm even able to use "start_mining" in simplewallet and "in theory" the daemon starts mining.
I want to try solo-mining before considering any pool, and right now, i prefer solo-mining as per my understanding its much more decentalized, that is one of the features i love more about monero.
My problem is that while i have "bitmonerod.exe" opened anyone in my household is able to use internet. We all get DNS erros when opening browsers. Internet is working, as bitmonerod is updating the blockchain, but for some reason it blocks every other connection (any app cant connect to the internet).
Is this normal? I mean, i will never be able to use normally my internet while mining monero? Or i have something misconfigurated?
Thanks in advance,
hispano
If you are using start_mining in the wallet, you are solo mining. I think you have to launch the wallet with the --trusted-daemon flag though.
Regarding the other things in your house not connecting to the internet - does this always happen? Or just during the initial synchronization? There are ways to limit the bandwidth that monero will use, and these might help. In your window with the daemon open, type help. It will show all of the commands you can enter. 3 of them are related to limit. ulimit, etc. Try modifying those parameters.
The very same moment i open bitmonerod.exe (the file that syncs the blockchain) the internet connection stops working, and it does not work again until i re-start the router, even if i close everything and shutdown the pc.
I've tried to limit the max bandwith but it does not change anything - i still get a DNS problem when i open the browser and any other application works (neither in that device nor any other)
So at least i understand this is not how it should be, I should be able to use my internet conection while mining, am i right?.
As per my understanding (i am not a tech-guy at all) it seems when i run the file it changes something in my router configuration, is it possible?
Maybe you can recommend me a guide so i can learn a bit more (though i've already read some and i didn't manage to solve this)