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Is bandwith an issue for mining ?

Bandwidth shouldn't be an issue, although use increases the higher your hashrate is. What connection do you have?

Hashrate has nothing to do with bandwidth usage. Your hashrate is not submitted. Only the shares over the selected difficulty. (And a bit of talk back and forth) The bandwidth use is very minimal.

i have 2Mbits download and 650Kbits upload

You need more power hash, and free electric bill if you want a profit. Bandwidth is not important, as long as you have stable connection.

I have this connetion of 15mbps and 5mbps upload.but still i do not want mine coins,because you should mine in a cold place.

I do not think bandwidth affect the mining process. I want to ask what hardware do you use, and what pool? thank you.
you can pm me maybe, ill help you in advance. thank you

It could be only an issue, when someone else would solve a block in same time as you, but got faster connection than you so he would get prize coz he would submit new block faster than you.

Yes, that would make you as if you run in slow motion and others respond quicker than you

Latency is a bad thing for miners so above is perfect example of this.  If your competing against others you really don't wan't to be fighting a bad ping/high latency.  This is why for example Bitcoin Pools have multiple servers in different locations.  They can help cut down latency by having a server for that pool close to you.

As far as amount of bandwith needed it is not really bad at all.  You don't need a huge amount of data for mining.

I think 2 mbps is enough for mining but the more you have a miner the latency will high and it can affect also the mining it will cdc or connect disconnect connect..  result of low hashrate i think if it will happen..