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Hello,
I'm going to use 8,6 Th/s in Solo mode.
12 BFL MiniRigs 500 Gh + 12 BFL Singles 50 Gh + 4 KnC Jupiters 500 Gh are at EclipseMC and KnC mining pools now.
1.How much traffic capacity do I need for effective mining?
2.What is preferable configuration for the server to conduct such task?
3.How to be sure Bitcoin-Qt works in normal mining mode (before I find first block)?
4.How many Mb can the server with 8,6 Th/s download/upload per 24 hours?

id say at least 2 mbps. i think it will tax the server CPU and RAM more than bandwidth
impressive amount of hash power though

Now I'm using EclipseMC and KnC mining pools. One day brings me about 6 bitcoins. But to have any chance to bring bitcoins I paid for all this equipment back I need to try Solo.

if i where you id start with 1THs work out the bugs so everything works smooth then move the rest over to solo. you do risk going a few days with no blocks at all but thats tge risk with solo mining. a big must is make sure your bitcoin client thats linked to the solo mining has a rock solid connection to the network

What is preferable configuration for the server to conduct such task?

Frankly to say if I had second chance I wouldn't buy miners at all (especially from BFL). But now I have at least to reduce my loss.

low ping. id go with atleast 8GB RAM and a good CPU atleast a dual core and Raid or SSD harddrive.

i love mining. i have a small setup but its made its money back a few times now... use to be even more fun when i used gpus in winter. nothing better than getting paid to warm up my room

I'm going to use this manual for Solo mining with KnCMiner:
1.On Ubuntu modify local (appdata) bitcoin.conf:

listen=1
gen=0
rpcallowip=192.168.1.xxx (the ip had to be the ip of your miner, it allows it to connect to bitcoin-qt)
rpcuser=yourusername (used for the mining tab)
rpcpassword=yourpw (used for the mining tab)
server=1
daemon=1

2.Ensure that my firewall does not block bitcoin-qt
3.Restart bitcoin-qt
4.In KncMiner mining tab set as pool 192.168.1.xxx:8332, user and password whatever you have in bitcoin.conf
5.Restart CGMiner in KnCMiner Mining tab (web GUI)

Bitcoin-qt had to run to connect the miner with the network

Hope this is right manual :)

looks about right. not going to be much help im a massive Linux noob :'( never really got around to learning it. if you get stuck ill try to help out.

Thanks for your answers ))
Now I can compare BFL and KnC.
KnC Jupiters work from 510 Gh/s till 820 Gh/s.
BFL Singles work about 90-100% of its capacity.
But BFL MiniRigs usually work 40-60% of it's capacity. I don't know is it BFL low quality product or Netsolus-EclipseMC bad performance.
I'm very upset of BFL MiniRigs!

hmmm interesting well all the miners should achieve 90-100% capacity any less id assume you having hardware problems or even problems with you internet connection

migjt be worth sticking them on bitminter for a while and see what they get. bitminter is probably the most stable pool out thre

How to be sure Bitcoin-Qt works in normal mining mode (before I find first block)?

Try mining against solopool.net too.  That uses stratum as opposed to getwork when mining against Bitcoin-QT.

go into bitcoin qt in the debug use the line "gethashespersec" should come back with you hash rate

dont have a clue on linux but the commands are the same

How many Mb can the server with 8,6 Th/s download/upload per 24 hours?

not sure but id imagine less than 1gb

I agree with this. Solo is a longshot and you don't want to give up your guaranteed earnings from pools. At the most do half of your hashing power for solo starting out till you get the hang of it.

Triplemining has about your hashrate at 6000 GH/s @ https://www.triplemining.com/stats and you can see how often they solve blocks. ~1 every 5 days, but sometimes even longer. One block took over 500 hours.

nice mining speed u got there buddy

I started a thread similar to this one, and I suppose I'm exactly where the OP is in set up. I have a few ASIC blades I'd like to solo with but I can't verify that the blades are connecting and receiving the block headers from bitcoind running on a linux server. I've tried commands like '$ ss' and cannot see the blade IP addresses in the output. Should I run as -testnet and point the blades at port 18332 and let it run for a while and see if testcoins end up in my wallet?

Also, for bitcoin.conf setting gen=0 will tell bitcoind to not hash using server resources, but will still give block headers to the blades to solve?

I've tryed to solo 1 KnC Jupiter with bitcoin-qt.

1.bitcoin.conf
listen=1
gen=0
rpcallowip=192.168.0.100
rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=password
server=1
daemon=1

2.Restarted bitcoin-qt
3.In KncMiner mining tab set as pool 192.168.0.102:8332, username and password from bitcoin.conf
4.Restarted CGMiner in KnCMiner Mining tab

5.Result in KnC Miner web GUI:
CGMiner Status - Running (pid=xxxx)
Last Checked - Wed Nov 27 15:56:11 UTC 2013
Avg. Hash Rate - 315 Gh/s
WU - 4658
Difficulty Accepted - 0

6.Result in bitcoin-qt:
gethashespersec is 0

How can I solve this?

Solve what?

gethashespersec is 0 so bitcoin-qt doesn't mine

I don't know what that is supposed to mean.

But this from your OP says differently


It says you are mining as you have a hash rate and a Worker Utility.  The Difficulty Accepted will be 0 until you find a share that meets or exceeds current difficulty which would be a block finding share.

What is your Best Share: ?

gethashespersec       Returns a recent hashes per second performance measurement while generating.

Bitcoin clients haven't had ability to "generate" (CPU Mine) since ver 0.3.2.1.  So this is meaningless  for solo mining.  My Solo mining setup returns a 0 as well and I am definitely mining as my hash rate, WU: and Best share: show.