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June 25, 2016, 04:27:01 AM |
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S1-S4 I never got any duty or customs fees no matter what shipping I chose
Located in Oregon US
From S5 I started to get customs fees every now and then..
The S7 every single unit had a customs fee
So I'm not surprised the trend is continuing, IMO the US customs is now wel aware who Bitmain is and what their products are, and as such they are unwavering on the customs fees
Even with the special code someone told us all to use on our shipping address and special notes field, it doesn't work
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sidehack
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June 25, 2016, 04:53:26 AM |
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I ordered out two batches of seven S7LN last week, one via UPS and one via DHL. The UPS arrived on Tuesday and I haven't heard a thing about fees of any kind. The DHL order, shipped a day earlier and also scheduled to have arrived on Tuesday, got hung up in China about customs, got Ohio because they needed more info for customs, and now it's hung up in St Louis waiting for payment of customs fees. I might get them on Monday.
I'm pretty disappointed; it was sort of a test and I expected more from DHL given that I've received packages from China via DHL in under 30 hours total transit time. Both orders were identical in size and merchandise cost, the only differences being carrier and the resulting slight variation in cost of shipping.
Back when the S7 was new and expensive, I got probably a dozen FedEx invoices for customs duties due because of hosting customers direct-shipping.
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Sierra8561
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June 25, 2016, 05:41:03 AM |
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Anyone having difficulty flashing the updated firmware for batch 1? Mine say success then reboot and won't hash "can't find socket" I'm forced to reset them and they boot up and run under the original firmware.
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steve1965!
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June 25, 2016, 08:56:38 AM |
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June 25, 2016, 09:00:58 AM |
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I see the firmware for the S9 is now available for download - has anyone taken it apart & inspected the miner software yet?
Has nobody checked? |
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Biodom
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June 25, 2016, 05:08:03 PM |
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The S7 every single unit had a customs fee
So I'm not surprised the trend is continuing, IMO the US customs is now wel aware who Bitmain is and what their products are, and as such they are unwavering on the customs fees
I did not had any fees in US on seven individual S7 units of which most expensive was $1823 or something like that. I also never had a fee on S1,S2,S3,S5. I also did not get fees on expensive Spondoolies. I conclude that it is not that they are unwavering, it is that customs rules are not very well defined. I very well may get a fee on S9, but it would mean that something changed, not that it was there all along. |
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June 25, 2016, 05:17:18 PM |
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The S7 every single unit had a customs fee
So I'm not surprised the trend is continuing, IMO the US customs is now wel aware who Bitmain is and what their products are, and as such they are unwavering on the customs fees
I did not had any fees in US on seven individual S7 units of which most expensive was $1823 or something like that. I also never had a fee on S1,S2,S3,S5. I also did not get fees on expensive Spondoolies. I conclude that it is not that they are unwavering, it is that customs rules are not very well defined. I very well may get a fee on S9, but it would mean that something changed, not that it was there all along. It could also be US customs location? Mine all came through Alaska I think |
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HagssFIN
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June 25, 2016, 05:29:44 PM |
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I paid the massive VAT 24% to the Finnish customs, received 1pc Antminer S9 batch 2 and started mining at last thursday night.
Had few problems with low hash rate in one of the boards and once two of the boards suddenly stopped hashing..
After few reboots it is now hashing ok, GH/S(avg) is 12838 Gh/s, so it is close to the advertised hash rate.
PSU that I'm using is Bitmain APW3-12-1600-B2.
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Swimmer63
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June 25, 2016, 07:39:38 PM |
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I see the firmware for the S9 is now available for download - has anyone taken it apart & inspected the miner software yet?
Has nobody checked? I am afraid to try either of the posted firmware. First can someone remind me how to check which version you have on the miner? Second - They are both dated the same day. Does it depend on the which batch you have? One says 600M and the other 650M. I have batch 1 so I assume the 650M is for me. Don't know. |
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HagssFIN
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June 25, 2016, 07:46:02 PM |
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650M is the stock setting for batch 1. 600M is the stock setting for batches 2 and 3. 550M is possibly the stock setting for batch 4.  |
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Swimmer63
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June 25, 2016, 08:24:47 PM |
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650M is the stock setting for batch 1. 600M is the stock setting for batches 2 and 3. 550M is possibly the stock setting for batch 4. Is the B1 file the same as was shipped with the units? And again, if anyone knows - how do I tell what I have? |
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HagssFIN
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June 25, 2016, 08:42:54 PM |
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650M is the stock setting for batch 1.
600M is the stock setting for batches 2 and 3.
550M is possibly the stock setting for batch 4.
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Is the B1 file the same as was shipped with the units? And again, if anyone knows - how do I tell what I have? My Ant S9, B2 has that very same firmware "s9-20160608-600M-release.tar.gz" that is on the site. You can see the version date here:  |
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June 25, 2016, 08:59:51 PM |
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650M is the stock setting for batch 1.
600M is the stock setting for batches 2 and 3.
550M is possibly the stock setting for batch 4.
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Is the B1 file the same as was shipped with the units? And again, if anyone knows - how do I tell what I have? My Ant S9, B2 has that very same firmware "s9-20160608-600M-release.tar.gz" that is on the site. You can see the version date here: Thanks. I saw that, but was hoping they would reference the specific filename somewhere. I guess not. There was a version of this S series that listed the filename. Or at least that's my recollection. |
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yslyung
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June 25, 2016, 09:37:17 PM |
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ain't broken DON'T fix it !
my b3 is @ 600M but hashes a tad lower than advertised it's hashing around 12.7 th/s
chain #1 hashes lower than the other 2 & has a lower temp but chain #3 has the highest HW error, so far it's ok pretty low within specs.
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philipma1957
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June 25, 2016, 09:58:27 PM |
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ain't broken DON'T fix it !
my b3 is @ 600M but hashes a tad lower than advertised it's hashing around 12.7 th/s
chain #1 hashes lower than the other 2 & has a lower temp but chain #3 has the highest HW error, so far it's ok pretty low within specs.
yeah any s-9 doing above 12th using 1200 watts should not be tweaked much at least until after the ½ing. Killing a slight underpreformer at this moment make no sense. Fuck with it July 18th or so. at 12th it will earn .6 btc the next 3 weeks at 14th it will earn .7btc the next 3 weeks so you risk losing the .6btc to gain .1 btc once the ½ ing happens you risk less to fix it since rewards are smaller. |
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steve1965!
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June 25, 2016, 10:19:27 PM |
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Anybody know how to get the antminer S9 to hash on NICEHASH it just does not hash all other sites are OK. please help A.S.A.P ?
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HagssFIN
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June 25, 2016, 10:20:42 PM |
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Anybody know how to get the antminer S9 to hash on NICEHASH it just does not hash all other sites are OK. please help A.S.A.P ?
BMMiner (most likely Bitmain's own fork of cgminer) doesn't work on Nicehash. |
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June 25, 2016, 10:40:19 PM |
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Anybody know how to get the antminer S9 to hash on NICEHASH it just does not hash all other sites are OK. please help A.S.A.P ?
ahahah funny. CAP A.S.A.P yes boys. 2 post and you request help asap. Learn to be patient.  |
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June 25, 2016, 11:08:49 PM |
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Anybody know how to get the antminer S9 to hash on NICEHASH it just does not hash all other sites are OK. please help A.S.A.P ?
ahahah funny. CAP A.S.A.P yes boys. 2 post and you request help asap. Learn to be patient. coming from a guy who has Legendary JA**AS* status how intelligent. |
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aarons6
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June 25, 2016, 11:10:17 PM |
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Anybody know how to get the antminer S9 to hash on NICEHASH it just does not hash all other sites are OK. please help A.S.A.P ?
ahahah funny. CAP A.S.A.P yes boys. 2 post and you request help asap. Learn to be patient.  LOL i would not hold my breath on bitmain releasing the source to their new "bmminer" so nicehash can figure out why it doesnt work. |
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