diagnosing connection problems

[wcrax]

Hey everyone... Im new to the bitcoin scene and was wondering if someone could assist me in an issue I am having.  Im running a 7950 and am currently working with deepbit.  I am also using the GUIMiner software... for some reason I am getting very erratic MH/s values.  Its suppose to stay right around 500 but it randomly drops to 250 and recovers and repeats.  I am also seeing alot of "Connection problem" messages in the speed column.

As a test, I jumped over to triplemining for a little bit and it was rock solid for days.  Constantly around 500 and I never saw a connection issue.   

Is this my issue or something with deepbit and should look elsewhere?  Thanks for the help everyone!

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[wcrax]

Further testing shows that its only with deepbit.  It will time out or something with "Connection problems" and then I have to hit "Stop" and then "Start" and it works fine for a short while, then repeat. 

Thankfully I have a backup so im not wasting anything but I would like to keep it 50/50 between the two pools.  Any ideas or alternative miners I could use?  Am I the only one with issues connecting to deepbit on a consistent basis?

[nintari]

try using an older version of GUIMiner, I was having the same problems and switched to 2012-02-19 and so far so good.

[Signus]

I suggest using anything other than GUIMiner. While it's a simple solution, it has its problems (like lower hashrates). I suggest using bfgminer or cgminer.

[wcrax]

Yeah the interesting part is that it works great with triplemining... no idea.

I"ll try BFGMiner thanks for the heads up... hopefully I Can run both still with that one. 

[sikman]

Its the pool for sure. I was trying to mine PPC with coinotron and kept getting longpoll IO errors was lucky to mine for 10-15min at a time, I switched pool's using same prog & settings and never had an issue, I thought it was cgminer....

[adara]

Try changing pools.
Triplemining is a nontrusted pool. It not only has connection problems randomly but also seems to be keeping some blocks for himself according to the pool stats thread.
Try joining any other pool.