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Back to load balancing again... Incredible how 10 mins into load balancing and expected Slush payout has halved despite 24 hours of full speed contributions! Hmmm...
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seems like everyone is jumping ship, right now we are at 4067693.594 Ghash/s for the server, we were over 51 this morning and closer to 56 yesterday...
Good thats more for me  ! Seriously though - in this game you have to take the rough with the smooth! There will be times like this when blocks are few and far between and there will be other times when they are plentiful... The long term figure is the important one... |
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Would be good to cover half the cost of the miners! If this luck continues that is doubtful... Not like the good old days anymore  |
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This week I bought one MR3020 and flashed it with the technobit firmware (openwrt). Everything worked fine until the switch of the lan interface to dhcp. The MR3020 started, but no connection was possible. Trying to switch the MR3020 into failsafe mode failed - neither by pressing the WPS button or by change the position of the sidemounted switch. So I bought a CP2102 and followed this guide (no additional resistor was needed). Afterwards the MR3020 worked again, but this morning the usb psu was defect and I had to use one of my phone usb charges. In the end, I am starting to hate the MR3020.  Actually, if you had another router, you can check the DHCP client list or statistic to find the ip address. For the power supply, i use 5V from same PSU that powered the miner  There is also quite a nice hardware mod - but obviously involves opening up your 3020... There is a position on the PCB labelled up as a resistor (R113) - located next to the micro USB power connector... Solder a link across this and your MR3020 will happily take its 5 volts from the normal USB connector (normally 5v output only) - which is great because the Technobit boards happily supply 5v down the USB connection (or from USB hub)... Thus effectively powering the 3020 from the supply feeding your miners whilst cutting out the need to run an extra cable just to power the 3020.  |
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Note that marto74 has now issued me a paypal refund (after a lot of chasing him).
I'll still leave this thread here, as until technobit gets their act together they are to be avoided.
Agreed... There are still many who did not have the insurance of using PayPal who are forced to just wait and hope... Maybe the order will turn up eventually - but only when the GH/S's for the equipment you ordered is probably not going to provide a break even letalone a profit. To advertise something as 'in stock' and talk of delivery dates never met in this game is a scam as time is money. Who is to say that the team are not putting your ordered equipment through an extended period of 'testing'? I won't deal with them again as to me they blatantly lied about my second order being shipped - not once but twice! I don't care what the excuses are - their lack of respect for customers, lack of communication and the BS when there is a reply is no way a reputable business is run. Melb |
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I sat it out this time and now it appears to be back to normal...
But some feedback here as to these increasingly frequent issues would be most welcome given that Slush links directly to this thread.
Melb
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The pattern is always the same for everyone that orders from Technobit...
Technobit take your order for apparently "in stock" items with promise of a delivery month (I think we all know this to be untrue).
Items may or may not appear as "shipped" on the site (don't be fooled into thinking that means it will be delivered!)...
You may or may not receive your order (some are delivered - some are not).
Initially you will get an apologetic excuse then a little later you will be ignored - whereupon no amount of PM's or messages on this board or on their site will generate any kind of response let alone an update for your order...
Ultimately if you were fortunate enough to order with PayPal (at the point in time when they did accept it) and you raise a dispute within the time limit you will get a response...
You will receive a PayPal refund from Technobit and a closing of your account with them - along with a message that your custom is no longer welcome!
For those that paid in other ways - well all of the messages around this forum speak a whole lot louder than any of the words coming from the Technobit direction - such as "we have taken on more staff to deal with customer relations" and "we are now taking orders for February delivery" when it is patently obvious they are not able to fulfill previous orders placed months ago... You weigh up the evidence and decide for yourselves...
Melb
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I love it when all the whining kicks in!! The total hash numbers fall as the flakes leave and my rewards jump back up. LOVE IT!!!
Morris
The individual rewards may go up - but the overall payout will not - as the GH/S falls so will the frequency or speed of finding blocks... Taken to extreme - imagine if everyone left the pool but you... You would receive a BIG 25BTC payout when you find a block - but how often would you receive it? Reality is that when people leave Slush they do not switch off - they move to another pool. |
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Asked for a refund pretty soon after I orderd on Dec 3rd, after I realized the items that were said to be in stock were in fact not. Was told that he would look for someone else to take my order. Never happened. Waited until my order was officially late and asked for a refund again on Dec 30th. Was asked if I had paypal. Gave him paypal info on Dec 31st. He has yet to respond. I wanted to keep this in pm, but that just does not seem to be working.
Why not just open a paypal case? You will get the money back no problems When I ordered there was no paypal option. I paid with btc via bitpay. Its highly annoying how he replies to a post right above mine and doesn't even acknowledge my post. Maybe Martin will offer some more information here about the extra staff member Technobit apparently hired to handle customer queries to address the rather serious communications issue that Technobit has.... Melb |
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The real problem is that the calculators can only make a guess at the potential increase in hashing power over the next few weeks and months.. This in turn also depends upon manufacturers sticking to claimed delivery times... Given that Terrahash+ units are not far away then the potential lifespan of < 100GH/S units has to be questioned - it may well be as mentioned that the most profitable option is to sell the equipment now whilst it still has value before these big guns hit the pools. But of course that is not much fun . Melb |
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My balance catched up and seems to be correct.
Yes - looks like it is being worked on and the balances have gone back to normal - just waiting a payout now! |
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I have switched pool - very odd because a few minutes later I checked my Slush account page and it said last share 3 hours ago (was 0 minutes a few minutes earlier when hashing on Slush!)... I don't doubt Slush's honesty or reputation - but can you now trust the actual mining mechanism to be working properly? It is quite possible with the last 2 blocks found stuck on 'processing' that your current mining efforts are being wasted... I shall return when payouts resume or we have an update as to what is happening and some reassurance that current mining is working.
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I have noticed that my unconfirmed reward has dropped from yesterday to today
lost about 33% of my unconfirmed reward
confirmed nothing since sunday evening/night
It's my confirmed reward has dropped! 0,01 BTC why?? they have no orphan block last day why one desappear? It looks as though as the newer blocks are being added on to unconfirmed (even though many of them are mow 'confirmed') then the oldest blocks that have not been paid out are being deducted from this 'unconfirmed' total! This has been happening since block 21304 - it looks like it could take a while to properly work out rewards due to everyone. I am hoping that the due rewards will be paid automatically rather than everyone having to put a claim in for unpaid blocks 21304+ which may go unnoticed by many. |
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I've only been mining for about 30 days here in Slush's pool, and there have been several problems in those 30 days. They have all been fixed - except for one (skewed payouts about 2-3 weeks ago) - but I have to say that if I had caused this many issues at my day job then I would have been fired the first week. I've tried to stay positive through all of these problems, shit happens right? But I'm getting a little tired of being continually frustrated by problem after problem. I wish we had some context on why these problems keep happening, that might help us to understand why there have been so many recently. They may be the original pool, but it seems like it's more of a hobby sometimes.
One question we always ask where I work: how can we prevent this from happening again. Might want to ask that from time-to-time Slush.
*Disclaimer: I'm tired, frustrated, on-call, and watching all my work being reversed with each block we find. I'm a low-volume miner so every little bit counts.
I guess in this business there are a lot of alternatives that are easy to set up and easy to switch to... So there is no real reason to stick with it unless there are loyalty bonuses involved... To switch temporarily to a fully working pool has no downsides? |
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Website is down, but hashing seems to work.
Time to failover. I imagine we are going to see a marked reduction in the cluster performance in the absence of any feedback as to what is happening and whether we are going to be properly credited for those confirmed blocks from 21304 onwards that are disappearing from our rewards total each time a new Slush block is found. |
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something like 3 blocks that were previously in my 'unconfirmed' have now been removed, so the unconfirmed and total reward shrunk. (blocks 23105-21307) It is a mess.... Just finished the math again and found that blocks 21305, 21306 and 21307 are indeed deleted from the unconfirmed total but not added to the confirmed rewards. Next block to be confirmed is 21320; I'll watch to see if block 21308 is then deleted from my unconfirmed total. Edit: Next round to be confirmed was 21327 not 21320. -- never mind the edit. When round 21320 confirmed, no changes were made in unconfirmed, confirmed or total rewards. I'll have to see if new block causes any problems. Bingo! Round 21328 came in and the reward for round 21308 was deleted from the unconfirmed and total tallies. The confirmed tally didn't change. Hopefully this will be properly resolved without us having to individually claim for the (what appears now) ever incressing number of 'confirmeds' being deducted from the total owing... |
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I consider myself one of the lucky ones - I got 1 order and on my second I got a refund... I am happy with that given that I was being told nothing as to where my (supposedly shipped twice) order actually was. This guy claims he does not treat customers like sh*t... But as always people should be judged by their actions (or lack of) and not by their words... The reality is that I am made to feel as though I have done something wrong by asking for a refund if he could not give me an update - which is a perfectly fair request given that he claims to have shipped my second order not once but twice... Given the speed of the refund and the fact that nothing ever arrived for the second order it is obviously clear that despite his claims to UPS Express at his expense - in fact I was being lied to... Then he has the nerve to say that my account with him has been cancelled and he is not taking any more orders from me... LOL! As if I am likely to to want to place any more orders with someone like this! Still I guess that is one thing we do agree on...
Melb
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Looks like a nice board with lots of promise - >GH/s will definitely be required in 2014.
Hope the tests go well Marto - even though I am barred..
Melb
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If it was orphaned, why did I just get BTC from it??? Will they take that back? Rather galling, considering that our result was timed first (by one second). Shouldn't that make it our block? |
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In all honesty, I'd rather have a little less information so they focus on production than them spending hours and hours and hours on answering everybody's question "where is my order"
You are assuming that everyone is just asking "where is my order". When I contacted them initially it was to ask about shipment and to purchase more equipment. There is a multitude of questions that would require being answered by the seller for the purchase to be successful. Here are some examples: -If someone initially asked for an item to be delivered at address A. but afterwards needs it to go to address B. The person sends a mail to the seller asking for the change but doesn't get any response. The package is sent to address A. and the buyer isn't able to communicate with the seller, doesn't know if the package was sent or not etc. -If the buyer marked the package for pick up but now wants to change the form of delivery. -If the wrong item was purchased by accident and needs to be changed to the correct one. I can come up with a couple more reasons why they should be responding to the mails in a timely manner instead of just ignoring the mailbox completely. Edit: I just got a mail from technobit saying my order is being shipped. I just called the police to put the charge on hold until I get my order. You can add to the list:- -If item claims to have been 'shipped' then canceled. Seller then claimed to have sent UPS (clearly not true). I don't think it was unreasonable to expect a response from a seller as to what is going on under my circumstances. My cancellation was the last straw as a result of receiving non existent communication to my many messages and PM's as to what was going on with my order (and no - the answer to my situation is not in any of Marto's posts in any thread at Bitcointalk) - it was not just a case of waiting patiently when it supposedly had been shipped, so it must have been built - as Marto claimed it was sent back to him 'canceled' from Speedy - hence his promise to send my package UPS Express the next day - which he clearly did not do! This is not the same situation as that of waiting in a big queue for your unit(s) to be built and delays resulting from this. Melb |
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