Do miners raise my internet ping? (online gamer thing)

[malaimult]

over the past few months i ran 5 mining rigs and they never affect my internet quality or speeds, and i also play games like dota2 and csgo where latency is important

[grouper fish]

been mining 10-12 gpus  on quite a bad wifi without it affecting any other activities. With a good connection I think you should be fine.

[FUR11]

Depends on how you mine. If you're mining Bitcoin on on a pool, make sure you're set the target difficulty in a way that you miners don't find a block every second or so (maybe every 10 seconds). That way they're not constantly submitting solutions, and thus clogging your connection.

I believe you meant a "share" there instead of a "block". I don't think any miner would mind clogging the network if they can get a block every 10 seconds lol.

Yes a share, of course But effectively, you literally *are* finding a block, when submitting a share, only for a much lower difficulty (in the majority of cases). A share is usually a block at difficulty 1, but since miners become more powerful, it's better to give them something harder to chew on (i.e. difficulty 16).

[cellard]

Does your game have a lagometer? check for packet loss. Your ping may be OK, but packet loss is an annoying PITA during online games when your bandwith isn't 100% focused on the game itself.

[Champ92]

Is that possible? I mean miners affecting my PING?