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Hi everyone, I'm new to bitcoin mining and new to this forum.  I've searched and seen this question asked a few times before but I have not seen any really solid answers...

I'm thinking about setting up a BFL 60Gh/s mining rig.  Does anyone know how much network bandwidth I will need to run this unit?  Is the mining rate in any way related to the network bandwidth?  If my network is slow, will it slow down my mining rate?  My connection will most likely be low end 384Kbit DSL and it will most likely be shared with some other PCs.

I was doing a mining test with my ATI 5870 video card (it gets about 360Mh/s) and noticed that it was using nearly zero bandwidth, but I'm not sure what I should expect with a more powerful miner...

thx
David

Bandwidth is a non-issue for modern mining (stratum or GBT).  Even dial-up could mine at terahash levels using Stratum.  GBT scales a little worse, but the same is probably true for GBT.

Bitcoin mining requires minimal bandwidth. Your connection is more than fine.

Thanks for those replies, I have to look into those mining protocols some more...  Are either of them able to communicate over port 80 in order to get past firewalls?

David

what is the stratum thing?  When I was a telecom tech 'stratum' referred to telco clocks for T1/3 carrier, muxes, switching and SONET gear. Where a 'stratum 1' clock was most accurate.

Mining for about 36 hours and the total bandwidth use was RX: 38.72 MB and TX: 14.57MB