Should I join a pool?

[kaetzchen]

First off, I'm very new to everything. I figured out how to get BTC mining working, joined a pool and a day later laughed at the 10 satoshi I made. After that I went looking into other coins, ended up here reading about ETH got it up and running and today I'm actively mining. I'm not looking to make a lot of money and i'm not interested in buying any new parts to make it more efficient. My gpu is a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, I run windows 7, power cost is .06 kWh, and my hashrate is 6 MH/s.

Would it be to my advantage to join a pool? I'm feeling a bit lazy atm so the thought of joining one just to see how it goes isn't very appealing, however I am interested in the long run and if it would make a difference I would rather figure it all out now.

[bathrobehero]

You definitely should. With your hashrate you'd need ~28 days to find a block on average with the current difficulty.

And of course you need a great internet connection to solomine successfully, especially when the time between blocks is so small as it is for Eth (17-18 seconds).

[kaetzchen]

Oh wow I didn't know it would take that long to find one   thanks for letting me know!

[CryptocurrencyNetwork]

Oh wow I didn't know it would take that long to find one   thanks for letting me know!

Pools are definitely the best choice. You can even use multipools that pay out in your selected crypto.