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After testing and producing day and night in the past week from Nov.11 to Nov. 17, the performance of Bitmain’ BM1380 chip breakthroughs most of ASIC miners manufacture and it can be comparable to the top 28nm process based miners. reference: our
Our efforts deserve the innovative miners, and your patience and attention deserve the good income/profit.
We have sold out 30 units in 2 hours last night, on our taobao.com store. We know that China and oversea market are different in many ways, so we decide to open an auction to find the right price. Please keep in mind that shipping from China to North America, Europe or Australia usually takes 3~5 days.
 
There are 10 units for auction in this round.

AntMiner S1 Dual Blades Spec:
Hash rate: 180 GH/s
Power consumption: About 360 W on wall
Power supply: 3 +12V DC input
Power efficiency:  About 2 W/GH/s on wall
Size:  135 mm x 155 mm x 300 mm (Dual blades assembled, with fans or mounting bracket),
Network connection: WIFI / Ethernet Cable
Cooling: 12cm PWM fans and customized heat sink, expected to be very quiet at 25℃ ambient and should be able to test up to 35~40℃ ambient.
Kindly reminder: you need prepare your own 12V power supply.


Bid it now
Auction total 10 S1 Dual Blades in this round.
Bid starting at 1 BTC (shipping included), All bids must be evenly divisible by 0.25BTC.
Specify both a price and a max quantity, if you want to bid for 2 units, 3.5 BTC each --> 2 @ 3.5
When you post a bid, the bids in your previous posts are considered to be automatically canceled.
If two people bid at the same price, the person who bid first will win miner first.
Uniform price auction: “All winning bidders pay a per unit price equal to the lowest winning bid (the lowest bid out of the buyers who actually received one or more units of the commodity) - regardless of their actual bid.”- quoted from wiki.

End date and time
The auction will end 24 hours after the OP was posted, the time is based on the forum time.
Last valid bid extends this auction by 20 min respectively
Payment methods accepted
BTC only.

Additional information
1. Payment must be made within 24h of winning the auction.
2. No escrow.
3. Shipping within 24h after payment.
4. We reserve the right to extend the auction if the forum is off and refuse certain bidders.
5. We will cover the shipping cost.

Embedded pictures here:


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10 @ 1

10 @ 1.25

5 @ 1.5

5@1.5

5 @ 1.5

1 @ 1.75

2@1.5

1 @ 1.75

1 @ 1.76

1@2BTC

2 @ 2

3@2

10@2.75

2 @ 3

2@3

2 @ 3

2@3

3@3

1 @ 3  ;) that makes 10, lets do it

1 @ 3.25

2@3.25

1 @ 3.25

2 @ 3.25

1@3.25

When does it ship?

2 @ 3.25

24 hours within payment received.

1 @ 4BTC

5@3.5

2 @ 3.5

10@4

2 @ 4.25

1@4.25

1 @ 4BTC

If there are 10 units available and someone already bid 10@4, your bid is useless unless they add more units to the auction.

5@4,25

10 @ 4.5

1@4.75

2 @ 4.75

1 @ 4.8

All bids must be evenly divisible by 0.25BTC.

who won, who lost?

1*4.75

Appears to me that Mr. Teal wants to take them all for himself :S.

Watching for batch 2 I guess.

Over 5 BTCs and break-even becomes difficult but I do understand the novelty factor :)

spiccioli

after 5 hours? winners i assume will be announced 24 hours after OP.

2@1.30 each

seems like a great product... reminds me of asicminer euphoric auction days... will wait for bitmain to streamline their production...

Opps my bad, didn't see that.

1 @ 4.75

Whoops I had meant to ask first - will you ship to Japan?

2 @ 3.5

1@3.0

Wow, i see 1 @ 4.75 here. Thats almost 3500USD for 180Gh/s. I'll pass for this one

1@3

5@4,75

1@1 

this auction is a mess ....

That's what people said about the Avalon Mini auction too, but the 2.5 BTC I paid for mine (including import tax) will have me at break even in BTC around the end of this month.
Other than continued shipments of Bitfury and whatever KnC ships with their second batch (plus AntMiner, obviously) there is a lot of hardware that is going to be pushed back into next year. Cointerra, BFL and most likely Hashfast will all be 2014 products.

1 @ 4.75

Agreed, re: This auction is a fucking mess.

We will consider adding another 10 units to this auction, to make the price more reasonable. we really thanks for your support and interest in the AntMiner. This hot level is not what we have not anticipated.

Just a quick tally to clean this up:

Name	Quantity	Price	Remaining
goxed	1	4.75	9
kmtan	2	4.75	7
xwr213	1	4.75	6
itamidensha	1	4.75	5
slastar	5	4.75	0

Outbid:

Xian01	1	4.75	-1
MrTeal	10	4.5	-11
kmtan	2	4.25	-13
sveetsnelda	1	4.25	-14
BenTuras	5	4.25	-19
goxed	1	4	-20
MrTeal	10	4	-30
BenTuras	5	3.5	-35
kmtan	2	3.5	-37
DebitMe	2	3.5	-39
Xian01	1	3.25	-40
Wintermute420	2	3.25	-42
effektz	1	3.25	-43
kmtan	2	3.25	-45
xlincn	1	3.25	-46
turtle83	2	3.25	-48
kmtan	2	3	-50
Wintermute420	2	3	-52
effektz	2	3	-54
xlincn	2	3	-56
bobsag3	3	3	-59
effektz	1	3	-60
cchan	1	3	-61
mtbitcoin	1	3	-62
Minor Miner	10	2.75	-72
goxed	1	2	-73
kmtan	2	2	-75
bobsag3	3	2	-78
beavertank	1	1.75	-79
kmtan	1	1.75	-80
Xian01	5	1.5	-85
bobsag3	5	1.5	-90
effektz	5	1.5	-95
Wintermute420	2	1.5	-97
Minor Miner	10	1.25	-107
Xian01	10	1	-117

We will have to ship 20 units to China customers tomorrow, and our production manager guaranteed me 40 units, but 50 units is also possible. And we have to ship the sample miners promised days ago, so we can only provide 20 units in this round.

Recalculated for 20 units:

Name	Quantity	Price	Remaining
goxed	1	4.75	19
kmtan	2	4.75	17
xwr213	1	4.75	16
itamidensha	1	4.75	15
slastar	5	4.75	10
Xian01	1	4.75	9
MrTeal	9	4.5	0

Outbid:

MrTeal	1	4.5	-1
kmtan	2	4.25	-3
sveetsnelda	1	4.25	-4
BenTuras	5	4.25	-9
goxed	1	4	-10
MrTeal	10	4	-20
BenTuras	5	3.5	-25
kmtan	2	3.5	-27
DebitMe	2	3.5	-29
Xian01	1	3.25	-30
Wintermute420	2	3.25	-32
effektz	1	3.25	-33
kmtan	2	3.25	-35
xlincn	1	3.25	-36
turtle83	2	3.25	-38
kmtan	2	3	-40
Wintermute420	2	3	-42
effektz	2	3	-44
xlincn	2	3	-46
bobsag3	3	3	-49
effektz	1	3	-50
cchan	1	3	-51
mtbitcoin	1	3	-52
Minor Miner	10	2.75	-62
goxed	1	2	-63
kmtan	2	2	-65
bobsag3	3	2	-68
beavertank	1	1.75	-69
kmtan	1	1.75	-70
Xian01	5	1.5	-75
bobsag3	5	1.5	-80
effektz	5	1.5	-85
Wintermute420	2	1.5	-87
Minor Miner	10	1.25	-97
Xian01	10	1	-107

1@4.25

You have to bid higher than the lowest bidder in order to beat him/her.

i know but when bitmain say that it is 50 units i will be in the game
it has changed from 10 to 20 and can change again :)

Good strategy

I will follow bbxx and put down 1@4.25

1 @ 4.5

Just in case there is increase in unit... or some bidder chickening out...

1@5

This is WOW :)

4-5 BTC

=

http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/ac/acbde2ddd4d29de45114302a87450a9ffafee9b813c26c3e812f7102c94369aa.jpg

all winners will pay the same as the lowest bidder which so far is 4.5 BTC

This auction is bullshit already on the count of raising it from 10 to 20 units after it began.

auction can last forever too :)

every bid extends it for 20 minutes.

they can bulk purchase forum accounts and finish auction in march

Sooo...

We are at ~ 3150 $ (4.5BTC) for the moment.
For 180 GH/s...

 ::)

1@4.75
1@5.00

1@5.00

Hopefully it doesn't get that expensive.

1 @ 3.25

1@4.5

not a fair auction. those newbie come in and gave the highest bids? with BTC at $600 a piece, 4 x 600 = $2400 for 180gh/s, don't make cents

i dont know what you are arguing? You dont want to pay 4.75BTC or more, then this is not an auction for you.


PS: anyone still bidding 4.5 BTC or less is obviously stupid, since the bid list in posted only a few entires back and clearly shows that the minimum bid to be considered is now 4.75BTC or 5BTC

2@5

1@5

5@5

Yes, we will.

Suppose the auction is ended almost 30mins ago? Don't mean to rush you, but could you please put up those payment addresses, so I can get to bed?

Would be nice to get an officially tally of who ranks where in the bidding.

So the price of units will be 4.75 BTC, and this is the winning bids. Thank you very much!

Username	Quantity		Bidding Price		Units left		Amount	Payment address	Finanl Amount
fhh	1		5.00		19		5	1FaNKGwMuWY6yxp9fzLP74oJ6urkHZ9XvS	4.75
klondike_bar	1		5.00		18		5	1DsJguiCBARjJsrp5KMQuTExq75v5pWEBi	4.75
Aexcu	1		5.00		17		5	1Q8QcNndMFhfomPQCLBjJ9vrCa9mDVGGaz	4.75
epg	2		5.00		15		10	1GrqzGAqdiiG8fHrJ4Ks94hFEESNNfKB4V	9.5
untel	1		5.00		14		5	1HGp7g9c2WSqHtmzx1KDBrFvCUmfG89Xfg	4.75
Gabit	5		5.00		9		25	1GHCRYeFrkotm3P3abDR9dRfSoxm94cmYf	23.75
goxed	1		4.75		8		4.75	1D3vU9FJ9u9udjSQui6sMHsQ8ks5N7L2CX	4.75
kmtan	2		4.75		6		9.5	1DHnAujaLhzx7NSmC2mEtZ4XUA6e7CwVv4	9.5
xwr213	1		4.75		5		4.75	1NybewjXpN1fBFHB5zHMB3KK82KWcuQ8PM	4.75
itamidensha	1		4.75		4		4.75	1Nj589ECZULqNUotJ8NsicKNDjTXS3fgFg	4.75
slastar	4		4.75		0		19	1FBLRgWpQzdZL8UJJkduvCDL8VytqD4VZq	19

Please pay "Final Amount" to the address, and email me your shipping information, info@bitmaintech.com. PM is also fine.
Please include this:

Country
State/Province
Post code
Detailed address
Your name
Phone number
The blue colored information is frequently not provided but it is demanded by UPS. Without it we cannot ship.

Winners will have coupon in buying our future products.

Goddamnit...

ha..i got the 2 units..hope the coupon will be in great values..

Ha - my payment address has 'sicK' in it.

wouldn't it be prudent to send postage info via PM exclusively?
I'm imagining some yoyo watching my payment address and then emailing their own postage details when they see the transaction lol.

BTC sent, email with wallet signed message. please check and confirm.
thanks.

I guess this kind of attack won't succeed  :)

if you email, you can sign your shipment info with your wallet to proof the ownnership.

BTC sent

4.75 BTC sent

4.75 sent
PM and E-mail your shippment detail

BTC and PM with shipping details send

BTC sent, address info emailed.

https://blockchain.info/address/1D3vU9FJ9u9udjSQui6sMHsQ8ks5N7L2CX

Will send BTC this afternoon (loading paper wallet now) and email info.

however - is it fair that some winning bids are 4.75 and others are 5.00? My impression was that in a situation like that, the winning bids should be all considered 4.75?
(if not, maybe i just havent been in enough auctions!)

How soon do the products ship and by what method? I would be quite impressed if delivery occurs sometime next week.

^nvm...

"Uniform price auction: “All winning bidders pay a per unit price equal to the lowest winning bid (the lowest bid out of the buyers who actually received one or more units of the commodity) - regardless of their actual bid.”- quoted from wiki. "

so the payment for my winning 5.00BTC bid IS actually 4.75BTC

Normally you pay what you bid but BITMAIN said everyone would pay the lowest succesfull bid so yhey are all 4.75, confirmed here...

BTW can these miners be overclocked?

PAID:  Transaction ID: 64de96b14d3c16b7b28495a073282af3f688584bd7db15b54f39335cb4d92a78

I had CRY... what I did because of the price :P

Shipping within 24 hours of payment according to OP.
Next week should definitely be possible depending on the shipping method (especially close by here in Japan  ;D)

Mine has MHs, back to the old days of GPU / FPGA mining.

4.75 BTC paid, info sent.

"shipment with UPS within 24hrs of payment"

Its been about 10hrs since i paid, and no word from them yet (night-time in china i believe) so im not worried, but would love to see an update soon!

If using UPS, I assume it can be received in Ontario, Canada by the end of next week, correct? It would be worth a few extra dollars to expedite it so that im not left miner-less for a weekend waiting on a monday arrival... :)

sent 4.75BTC (https://blockchain.info/fr/tx/dd5a3e314a4003493f5c42de657ea5db8b7a61e231c8fa7b714eb8175efa2204) + infos

+1
But it IS Saturday morning right now over here in the far east. The 24 hour mark from my payment is about 6pm tonight (will be about 10 hours after this post)

+1 time=money, BTC miners depreciate faster than a luxury car :(

Any update guys?

I don't think UPS will work in weekends, even in china.

But email and bitcointalk.org works right.

They did say 24 hours though...

Looks like UPS is open for business in Shenzhen today:
http://www.ups.com/content/cn/en/locations/dropoff/#Shenzhen

I can't think of any reason they wouldn't ship today (currently 2:24pm in Shenzhen right now)

Not nervous yet but I will be if we don't hear from them with tracking numbers sometime in the next 3-6 hours.

OK little bit nervous now.

Would appreciate an update from BITMAIN on the status of the auction proceedings as well.

Even though it's Saturday (soon Sunday in China) for the Company, the original auction rules did state:

1. Payment must be made within 24h of winning the auction.
2. No escrow.
3. Shipping within 24h after payment. 

It's not everyday people in general send 2.676,15 € 'no escrow' style..

1. Payment must be made within 24h of winning the auction.
2. No escrow.
3. Shipping within 24h after payment. 

Hi all, a short notice:

 All goods were given to UPS today. I will give tracking number in a few hours.

Great - thanks!

why no escrow even if we, the customers pays the fees ? ... just asking

thank god! I dont think i was the only one beginning to get antsy lol :)

as for the question reegarding 'why no escrow?', i would assume simply because escrow adds some delay because of the third party confirmations, and these guys likely want the BTC as quick as they can in order to fund the next batch. if they had to wait a week to clear the escrow, it might mean an extra week before they can pay for the next batch of chips or pcb assembly, just a guess.

hey guy, i had received the my 2 antminer parcel from Bitmain  :), as i am from china...parcel delivery are very quickly..

i just finished the power supply connection and work up the setting.

now the 2 miner starting mining..but it is too late here...i need to take bath and go to sleep.

will update later on monday soon..happy mining

Great! Just got tracking info, it's shipped using UPS Worldwide Express. Scheduled delivery date is Tuesday, 11/26/2013, by end of day (Canada).

same! very happy that they chose the fast service option, since every extra day of operation is >0.1BTC

I also got tracking info. Estimated delivery 26/11/2013 (EU).

Before you received the goods, you want to read this carefully. If you have any questions, please ask.

First, you have to connect your computer and the miner directly with an Ethernet cable. Then you manually set your IP address at 192.168.2.XXX, so you can browse the control panel. This is very similar to other OpenWRT based miners.

Default user name and password: root / root

Please check the LAN setting before you change the WAN ip address. You should change the LAN into “DHCP client” mode, and click “Switch Protocol” then click “Save and apply”. Make sure the LAN interface is really in DHCP client mode. Then you can change WAN interface IP address according to your local network settings. The LAN is useless for users, but only useful to developers. If you do not follow this, and set LAN and WAN’s IP address at the same subset, you will not be able to log into the control panel again.

Don’t forget the WAN IP address you have set up. If you forget, you will not be able to login into the miner.

No reset to factory settings?

No, there is not in this version of control board. That's why I posted here. Please use labels and notes.

Please do not forget the login password if you change it.

it would be nice to see a step-by-step with a few pictures to make the process more fool-proof.

They works in China. :)

coming soon

Can it be flashed through jtag if it gets bricked?

Same here.
Scheduled Delivery:
Tuesday, 11/26/2013, By End of Day  (Japan)

Does this have to be changed? or can it be left at 192.168.2.xxx?
I don't have DHCP server running on my router.

I can also confirm that I received a Tracking Number from BITMAIN-- and UPS claims delivery by EOB 25/11/2013 (EU).

Impressive.

LAN is useless for the users, so you don't need worry about that.


Yes, but it will be mission impossible for average users to do this. In China we already have two buyers suffered this, and we have to ship them a new control board.

We will held a super fast auction for 30 units at around the forum time 13:00 today, and the auction last only for 2 hours, if new valid bids not show up in 20 mins.

Please revist the Auction board to find our new auction thread :) As the auction last a short time and the quantity is larger than the first round auction, I hope you can grad some cheap miners  :)

The auction rules will be similar:

received UPS tracking.

sound interesting.  I'm in.

 So in about an hour and a half then ? It's late here in the States, and I'd like to know if I should brew a pot of coffee and stay up until 3am for this auction to end :)

it's 21:00 Beijing time, thats about 8 hours and 20 minutes as of now

 Nap time then. Thanks !

hi,
does anyone know if the new auction takes place here or on a new thread?
Thanks

Sorry I'm not following 100%, and I don't want to brick my unit! Assuming I had the DHCP server running on my router:

1. Manually set my subnet to 192.168.2.xxx in order to access the control panel on that subnet (192.168.2.100?).
2. Use that control panel to change the LAN to "DHCP client" mode, then "save and apply"
3. Change WAN interface IP to match my local network settings (subnet 10.1.1.xxx)
4. Set up the miner using the WAN interface IP.

If you do not follow this, and set LAN and WAN’s IP address at the same subset, you will not be able to log into the control panel again.

My question is - if I do steps 1 to 4, won't my LAN and WAN IP end up both on the same subnet? (10.1.1.xxx)


 

If I had to take a guess, I would a say a definitely a New Thread but the same section

Cheers

10@1BTC

So are the bids supposed to be placed here?

Well.. then here goes nothing  :D

2@2

30@1.25

10@2BTC

20@2BTC

Auction is NOT here, link below
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=344948 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=344948)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=344641.msg3695393#msg3695393

Did these come with pcie sockets for the power?

They really should but they don't, you have to butcher your cables.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=344970.0

Anyone from this auction get their unit yet?
I'm still tracking mine - looks like it's through customs so I think I'll get it tomorrow. According to the scan locations it went from China to Japan, back to China and then to Japan again  ??? 


Once I get it up and hashing I'll post a quick video from my phone.

Mine's been sitting in Shenzhen for a while. Apparently did not clear the customs yet.

Since I get no reply from pm, hopefully i can get a reply here from BITMAIN.

When will you guys announce the group buy? You can ship the USB to Hong Kong instead of UK. Buyers want to know the price and they are quite frustrated.

Thanks

Okay it just cleared customs

got the call from UPS regarding customs yesterday (sunday!!!) evening @8p.m. and now it is out for delivery ...
...waiting...

Yes point I have setup. But I have another big problem after I wiring and setup pools and connect to internet. There no any hashrate. So what problem there?

Why not set the miner in dhcp mode by default? That way n00bs wont have to fuss with networking settings...
Questions (as buyer late into the scene):-

What microcontroler/computer do you use? What OS? is it tp-link with dd-wrt?
Does the miner have dhcp client inside?
Is their API to change settings, pools, monitoring, etc?

Why are you guys ignoring USB buyers? If you are not going to ship the usbs tell me and i will cancel the group buy. Please at least give us a answer

exactly, these guys are trying their best to ignore PM's and emails
I've messaged them few times as you mention when seeing them online, but nothing no answer here also.

They are definately not a professional company, and have proven that many times over.

They're auctioning what is basically prototype hardware in a fashion that creates a buying frenzy and are generally unresponsive to people asking them for more info on availability of other announced products.  What gave you the first hint?

Hello,

I was one of the winners of the first batch auction. It was about exactly 72 hours ago that I sent the BTCs according to my winning bid to BITMAIN in China. This morning, UPS contacted me on the arrival of my package here in Northern Europe, probably the very first unit on the "old continent".

Here's a link to the picture (I did a favour and actually opened the box for you, too):

https://app.younited.com/?shareObject=82dc5ac0-34d7-4431-13de-116ae719adfe


Say what you will about the Company, but I consider this nothing but an impeccable delivery (and even more so, a delivery over the weekend!) That said, I haven't yet deployed the AntMiner, but will proceed to do so next.

Bitmain might be "slightly overrun" by the onslaught of incoming e-mails and PMs currently - and it does not help to really post multiple messages about one thing in every thread you can find.

It does seem that they do deliver.

Funny, best way to handle being overrun by basic questions is to, hold on, answer the questions!  People are asking the same questions over and over and the only thing Bitmain is responding about is their auctions.  Gets irritating.

still prefer to see a pic from a senior member.

next time taking a photo, get a piece of paper and hand write you member name with "this is for you merv77" on it.

get the picture  ;)

what about the customs?
was there some additional charge?
thank you,

I'm sure some senior members will comment to this thread with their findings, as the equipment arrives. Just wanted to drop a note here to help at least somewhat reduce the general anxiety on the topic.

The package did get stuck into Customs, which is why the UPS guy called me. In this part of the world UPS has the permission to do the customs themselves (their warehouses are so called toll zones), but they do have to ask the customer whether I wanted to do it myself (or pay them for this as a service). I opted the UPS does customs -option, knowing I would have to otherwise produce further documentation on the value of goods etc. myself, which would ultimately delay the delivery with at least 1 day. They told me they will invoice the shipment customs from me, but I did not ask at that point what was going to be the total amount. I can post the sum when I receive their invoice. (Yes, I was asked for ID when picking up the shipment.)

I will post some more pictures (to the other thread at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=330665 ...), after I've actually connected the device and have it running.

Thanks for taking the time for your post!

Please take attention that you have to make sure that the LAN interface is working in "DHCP client" mode, before you change the WAN IP address.
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I'm STILL confused about this. If the LAN address gets set by DHCP, and I set the WAN IP to a static address on my subnet (say 192.168.1.xxx), they will end up on the same subnet, which you previously posted was a big problem and will effectively brick the unit.

Furthermore - in this thread of sushi's setup instructions, he specifically says to set the WAN IP to the address on the sticker (the default LAN address) : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=344970.0

itamidensha,

Having just installed my device:

I found that the LAN setting was already set as "DHCP Client", but did a "Save as" anyway just to be sure. After this, I proceeded to change the WAN settings to match my local network. Sushi's guide is generally excellent, so I won't bother writing an another one.

I'll post some pictures and further findings next to the non-auction thread.

up & running @178GHash in p2pool (many miners perform a little bit worse in this) so I'm happy with this performance
stable wifi connection established

How about a screenshot?

Make a lot of us feel better. :)

http://www.bilder-upload.eu/show.php?file=663597-1385421452.png

Thanks for doing that.  Am I reading the rejects correct and it is high in my estimation or is it a case as usual for me and I dont know what the hell I am talking about.

Best Regards,

Thanks for your reply. I expect it to arrive tonight so I guess I'll figure it out.

I'd still like to know what the doomsday scenario is that we're being warned against though. I really don't understand.
Maybe it's simply that there's no factory reset button, so they're just warning us not to set the thing to an IP address we might forget?

DHCP Client Mode is recommended!

Current unit wise, Hard-Reset may be too tricky for the users to perform.  Bitmain was sending out the replacement miner for the bricked AntMiner.  At least in China.

How many Japanese Winners here?  Do you guys need Guide in Japanese?


Now the lucky winners are start receiving their miners, here is the setup guide for the AntMiner

Setup Guide: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=344970.0

p2pool always delivers higer HW rate and it got a little better over night, but I think I'll have to test wired mining - thing wifi is killing some shares
or try a normal pool for better comparability

Dam!
AntMiner does not connect to eligius - status: dead

But @btcguild its getting much less rejects than p2pool :(
when will manufactures learn??????

with every new miner it's a fail again :(

 AntMiner is doing you a favor.  It is a next-gen device and knows better than to mine at Eligius and support Luke-Jrs shenanigans.

Hello all,

I asked one of my Chinese friend who lives in China, Shenzhen (The city that Bitmain claims their factory is located in) to call them and Buy one Antminer Unit from their Taobao Store.
(You can find their store link in one their posts:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=340071.msg3648732#msg3648732 )
And here are their contact info my friend tried to communicate with:
Ali Wang Wang: 比特大陆:李盈斐
Ali Wang Wang: 比特大陆:范晓俊
QQ: 8133455
QQ: 800022357
QQ: 9161403
Phone Number: 18611720733
Phone Number: 18911677899

They announced they will put up 30 units at 21:00, 23 November for sale. They crossed 20,000 CNY and priced the units for 18,500 CNY.
My Chinese friend (who is familiar with Taobao website and usually buys from it) tried to buy one but after some unsuccessful attempt he said "they are just showing off that people are buying from their store and there is not any actual sale. They don't let me to buy and they are actually using their Taobao store to advertise their validity". And as my Chinese friend claims no one is able to buy anything from their Taobao shop.

I am emphasizing that my Chinese friend tried to buy from their Taobao store on the exact time they announced and tried it for two of their announcements.

I just hope my Chinese friend and I are wrong in our guess that they are scam.

Hi Ommid,

Appreciate your concern, but at least I received my unit. Then again, I'm as new as you from the posting count point of view.

Additionally, there was some senior member already confirming having received theirs (with a picture).

Hello Aexcu

I just wanted to share the experience my Chinese friend had with their Chinese Taobao store.

I'm not a fan of him, but it's a solid pool (normaly actually it was ddosed;) good as backup

But I don't like btcguild and my favorite p2pool doesnt work proper :(

Hi everyone I have got mine rig and connet it use MEANWELL swith power. This kind of power normally been used at Automation part. But in this case it running well. Just noise bigger than ATX power. The price about 70USD. Followed picture is  connected miner.
http://s8.postimg.org/om6dk7t69/IMG_20131126_110144.jpg

I have some big trouble at first started miner. Always no any hashrate. Luckly today ANTMINER engineer use teamviwer help me solved problem.The problem is maybe because of my internet envirment issue miner can not find NTPD server so cgminer stuck at there. So maybe another miner also stuck at this problem so I write down ANTMINER engineer suggest how to solve this problem:

（1）modify /etc/resolv.conf,change 'nameserver' setup to DMS
（2）commet ntpd out of /etc/init.d/cgminer
（3）reboot

This is now miner running speed realiable around 180G.
http://s2.postimg.org/htaxgxidh/antminer.jpg

I really like this miner noise lower and until now work realiable espencially have good service form supplier.

Hope this can give your help. Happy mining

thanks mate, appreciate the feedback!

Guys,

have a go at HHTT (http://hhtt.1209k.com/), it should work out-of-the-box.

spiccioli

Thanks unit arrived on time.

Can you tell us what the rate of share delivery is to the pool?

Your image has

Elapsed 1h 3m 57s
Accepted 257
Rejected 162
Discard 508
HW 148

Am I just reading this wrong, are the figures in a different scale or is that really 257 shares accepted after 1 hours mining?

196 - 210 Gh/s

Many thanks Goxed, you have put my fears about the hardware to rest with the shot of your pool stats  :)

Cool :)

Bitmain,

My machine is locked. No mining done. Can you please send a new control board asap or recommend best resolution. Do not know best practice to short...otherwise need technical assistance to short.

Thank you,
JK

try this :

https://github.com/AntMiner/AntGen1/blob/master/manual/AntMiner%20FAQ.pdf (https://github.com/AntMiner/AntGen1/blob/master/manual/AntMiner%20FAQ.pdf)

I read that but wondering about the following step 3 in the FAQ:

"Step3: Short the RESET PIN to 3.3V as the following picture for more than 3 seconds"

Is this 3.3V reset done with a simple jumper wire touching these two points for 3-5 sec? Guess I a bit concerned about the "3.3V" and needing to adjust voltage, etc....thanks!

yes
use wire to connect them for 5 sec .

Thanks a lot novymivo, it worked! A lot easier than expected.  :)

And if that happens where can one get a new bitmaintech v1.2 comm board? I may have a little problem..

https://github.com/AntMiner/AntGen1/tree/master/manual

AntMiner FAQ pdf has instructions on how to jump two connections for a factory reset.  Note the IP will change as documented in that FAQ.

OK that worked, I just needed to hookup miner with LAN , set my laptop  IP to 192.168.2.x  or 192.168.1.x and ping in CMD window. I got 2 of them miners and after reset one was 192.168.1.99 and the other was after resets 192.168.2.99. But it would be nice to see spare parts on Ebay or AliExpress in case something was really damaged.
Any idea how to upgrade to the best cgminer for this miner? I got different versions in each one.

cgminer V3.4.3-1 and the other one has cgminer V3.8.5-1

Can't help with firmware, mine came with a reset button and firmware 12.12.2013.

Haven't seen anything that indicates these are better with the newer firmware.