distance and latency an issue with mining pools?

[naptunian]

Hi Everyone,

My first post on Bitcointalk.org...

I've been using the mining calculators to see the potential number of cryptocoins I should be receiving based on my hashrate.  However, I'm getting differing amounts of coins in return for my contribution.  I'm wondering if the distance between my location and the mining pool is an issue?

I usually let my guiminer run for 24 hours so that I can get a decent baseline.

[ltcboi]

usually not, at least when the latency is low enough to not get some stales or rejects.

most likely the payout is PPLNS, or the pool is to small to get some blocks. or just unlucky.

PPLNS needs some days to stabilize payout, small pools sometimes have ten days for a block (no blocks = no payouts), and luck may also be needed...

[naptunian]

Thanks ltcboi

Do sites typically advertise that they're using a PPLNS payout?

For example, I tried mining GDC on miningpool.co and the number of coins have been far below the projections.  I don't see miningpool.co mention PPLNS...

[gongomanny]

I've been using the mining calculators to see the potential number of cryptocoins I should be receiving based on my hashrate.  However, I'm getting differing amounts of coins in return for my contribution.  I'm wondering if the distance between my location and the mining pool is an issue?

I usually let my guiminer run for 24 hours so that I can get a decent baseline.

HW errors and rejected % can explain this. And pool luck as well

[reikokuko]

The mining calculators give you a statistical average of what you will make (just like the statistical average of flipping a coin is 50% heads).  But there will always be variance.  24 hours is not a big enough sample size to see this average.  The more times you flip a coin, the closer it will get to 50% even, the longer you mine, the closer you will get to the projected average.  You will see streaks of heads or tails so don't put too much thought on the numbers a mining calculator gives you.

[DFiLeR]

ive definitely had more rejects from different pools, with exact same pc and settings, seems to be the network latency between me and pool.

also p2pools seem worse reject wise, not sure if its that just my luck tho hehe