Hi con, looks like we are on the same a near Host:


I am actualy setting up my VServer for the company....
Well i got some space.

<<crickets>>

That's for sure. 93 billion - I don't think any of my miners have ever seen a number that high.
Next estimation is 108 billion.

 

To put that image at a size that would still be too big for the importance and accuracy of the content:


There is no magic 100 is "Looking good" but 101 is "Too far"

One problem with that image is that it is telling p2poolers to centralise p2pool.
Right ...
The idea of p2pool is to run it yourself so you can indeed make the claim that p2pool is decentralised.
The image is telling people to centralise p2pool and mine on other nodes.

Now if you were silly enough to mine on someone else's random who knows what set up p2pool node, then their node configuration is just as likely to make even a 500ms ping time almost totally irrelevant.
Most of them are, to be blunt, poorly configured and slow to handle work changes.

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So now, when discussing pools with high performance hardware and software (and pools that don't have that ...)

The performance of solo.ckpool.org (and kano.is closely behind it ) means that the fast pool work change time will make even a sizeable ping time worth your while mining.

The ping time vaguely infers your stale share rate, so of course a higher ping time will mean higher stales.
But also remember that a block time average is expected to be around 600s (or less at the moment) so even a 600ms work reply time would put your stale shares caused by that at around ... 0.1% ...
The problem isn't so much your ping time as it is the mining hardware being able to switch work quickly.

So yes, ping time is quite relevant if it takes you 2000ms to get a packet from the Antarctic via penguin satellite to Tasmania then weave it's way through the crappy internet of Australia and make it to a pool somewhere else on the planet, but in general the pool's work change time will usually be way more important to determining if you will find a block ... which is all that matters here on solo ...

What makes me thinking about some chinese pool's.
They use SAT I-Net for connection, wich give you a latency greater 600 mS.
I used it for 3 years also, because I am living on the country/forrest side with no speedy i-net.

How can they secure a good share rate then?

 

Well ... if you had mining hardware that could handle a block change instantly ... ok lets call that 1ms ...

If at some pool you where getting 0.4% rejects/stales that were thus really only due to network speed, then 0.4% of 600s is ... 2400ms ...

The main point of my comment is that a 101ms ping time is only a part of what you need to consider.
Using only the ping time to decide will certainly give you the wrong answer unless the ping time is very large.

I pulled a 7B share with 3S3s. I pulled the U3 out as it kept going zombie on me. Total power is roughly 1.3TH. Letting the blocks roll in guys

Funny you pulled a best share of 1.9B with a 12 hr 100TH rental. My friend pulled a 1.1B share running his GPU as a test for two weeks at 500MH/s :O
Jacob

With 50T shouldn't you better call it "gambling" instead of "hoping"? Don't want to spoil the fun though but in the the long run isn't it just luck you are counting on when renting 50Th?