Rig badwidth usage

[acostaja]

Hello friends 1st post.

I'm a semi-retired IT engineer I develop both hardware and software, now I'm interested to mine Alt Coins and I'm in planning stage for my first rigs, I passively read most thread related to the Rigs, its hardware, software and management.

I reserve the details on my mining operation I consider it has no sense to share this details, but I could share with you the developments related with it I'm considering.

I have a Question, what's the bandwidth used by the tipical rigs while mining:

Monero:
Ether (any flavor):
Zcash:
Pascal:

These are the cryptocurrencies I want to mine (at leas at the begining), of course if you have data on other currencies are welcome.

Please dont forget to detail the scale used: bit per seccond, byte per secconds, byte per hour etc, and how many GPUs are active and the hasrate at which this traffic was metered.

Why I'm asking this for?

- Obviously this data is not available on the threads I've searched.
- I plan to use cheap handy ESP8266 dev boards to manage each rig:
The ESP8266 Can be easy programmed in arduino or freeRTOS to do the following:

• Reset/Shut Off on N conditions monitored
• Relay environmental data as: temperature, humidity, voltage
• Provide TCP/IP connection to the internet (115kbps) -on linux hosts-
• provide access to the system terminal -on linux hosts-

The best part, is that those modules can be purchased by 6-7$ as Dev Boards at AliExpress, eBay, Amazon and already includes (have to solder nothing): Relay, Temp, humidity sensor, some leds (useful to identify a Rig if you have a farm), and can be powered by the 5V std by lead from the main atx PSU. a TTL-USB interface if terminal/tcp-ip services are required also is needed (also for programming), these also are cheap cost 2-15$

I'm asking since coding in arduino its easy, but may limit the network speed to about 115kbps, with RTOS it could be much faster but RTOS its more complicated and not as easy as the Arduino environment.

Beyond the convenience for rig management, it also could save few $ in lan ralated stuff (still have to check feasibility)

THANKS

[acostaja]

P.D. I dont want to compete with anybody here.

I give you the Idea (maybe later I'll share the code too), if you want to adopt it instead another similar solution commercial or DIY its something you have to do by you own and by your own risk.

[xxcsu]

That is 1 of my rig, im sure if you are a "semi-retired IT engineer" You can read the answers for your questions from that screenshot , just created this screenshot  yesterday for someone else who asked the same question .

that bandwidth spike's you see on the graph is when i loggen in with teamviewer

[acostaja]

thanks, what I see is 450-500 kbps peaks, that could be problematic for the ESP to handle.

[xxcsu]

thanks, what I see is 450-500 kbps peaks, that could be problematic for the ESP to handle.

that peak is when i logged in into the mining rig using teamviewer ...
during the mining , sending data is never go over 80 kbps , receiving is stay stable around 24-30

[xxcsu]

You have to make sure you are disabling all windows updates , automatic driver updates and all communication with microsoft servers

[acostaja]

thanks, what I see is 450-500 kbps peaks, that could be problematic for the ESP to handle.

that peak is when i logged in into the mining rig using teamviewer ...
during the mining , sending data is never go over 80 kbps , receiving is stay stable around 24-30

Ahh, Ok, so it still  plausible to do with an ESP8266

You have to make sure you are disabling all windows updates , automatic driver updates and all communication with microsoft servers

I'm not aiming at windows based rigs, while there are a serial-lan adapter for windows, I'l plan to use Linux where almost the only thing I need to code/buy are the ESP8266 itself, since the libraries to bridge tcp/ip to a serial port already exists and are somthing I dont need to seek for help, I dont use windows.

[deadsix]

Beyond the convenience for rig management, it also could save few $ in lan ralated stuff (still have to check feasibility)

I would recommend you look at the Simple Rig resetter made and sold by Tytanick in the threads here, especially if you plan to scale your farm up, as his device can manage 8 systems for an asking price of $95 or $12 per system, and if you scale up from there, the cost per system can go down to under $8 per system.

[Za1n]

The best way is to use the Windows System Resource Monitor: Task Manager ->Performance Tab -> Resource Monitor (on bottom left).

Then from either the Overview or Network tab select the miner process EthDcrMiner64.exe for Claymore and then you get just that processes bandwidth.

Notice in my example one of the two connections is to my monitoring rig "Miner02" so you can discard that bandwidth as it is internal to the LAN, so only the other connection is what the miner uses to communicate with the pool, which in this case is about 65 B/sec total.

[acostaja]

Beyond the convenience for rig management, it also could save few $ in lan ralated stuff (still have to check feasibility)

I would recommend you look at the Simple Rig resetter made and sold by Tytanick in the threads here, especially if you plan to scale your farm up, as his device can manage 8 systems for an asking price of $95 or $12 per system, and if you scale up from there, the cost per system can go down to under $8 per system.

Thanks I'm aware of SimpleRig, but a humblke ESP8266 even w/o serial interface its cheaper (6$) widely available, and adding a 1-2$ serial interface it could eliminate wired ethernet or gimme an alternative access to the OS Shell.

[emdje]

There is another topic with that question, see that for more info as well: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1825145.msg18172717#msg18172717