I started mining bitcoins for the first time back in January, and based on my research I had made the determination that eligius would be my best choice. Right now my mining works like this: A radeon 5750 and a 7850, both overclocked, on two separate machines, with a combined hash rate of roughly 550Mh/s. I didn't buy these cards for mining, rather they are cards for gaming that I already had, so I figured I would experiment with mining, and so far I like the results. However lately I keep running into this:
https://i.imgur.com/SqxRI0V.pngNaturally, I'm not getting anywhere if my client can't actually participate in the mining process. I did research on p2pool and I heard something about variance being no good. My statistics page here doesn't seem to indicate that I am doing that well on eligius though:
http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/userstats.php/1MxuKm4jdpGqpUSJRE45gbanGsePEkRJnqMany of the dips are from suspending the mining while I play games, but I haven't played any games at all in the last two weeks. My network works fine (I am a network engineer btw) as I do regular SLA testing (hobby of mine) and there are no ISP connectivity issues indicated by that, nor do I notice any downtime from any other sites.
I realize that it is basically impossible to accurately predict how much you'll actually be able to mine. However, is there at least any statistic gathering anywhere that will give me an idea if I'll get better results from another pool?