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Title: Solo vs. Pooled Mining Network Traffic? Post by: mikeo on June 25, 2011, 06:48:54 PM I'm curious to know if there are bandwidth consumption differences between these two mining methods. I can only obtain wimpy DSL 1.3Mbs/0.75Mbs actual on my system, and nothing faster is available at a reasonable cost.
Title: Re: Solo vs. Pooled Mining Network Traffic? Post by: Olaf.Mandel on June 25, 2011, 08:22:15 PM I would also like to know.
But on a different note: do you have that much hardware to make solo mining worthwhile? Or do you plan on being lucky :) ? What I mean is that currently the difficulty is 1379223. If I understand it correctly, that means you need to make N hashes to have a probability P of success: N=log(1-P)/log(1-1/(1379223*2^32)) N(P=0.5)=4.1 PetaHashes Please correct me if I got it wrong. Title: Re: Solo vs. Pooled Mining Network Traffic? Post by: smoothie on June 25, 2011, 09:51:44 PM I've been doing both solo and pooled mining and I have not noticed any significant difference in the bandwidth usage.
Seems to be negligible. |