ISP speed ? Will miners effect it ???

[bilabonic]

Hi All

I am on 70meg cable with Virgin media and all my videos over the last 2 or 3 days have been glitching, websites slow loading etc.

I just just a speed test with Ookla and i'm not even getting 0.17Mbps download and 4.58Mbps !!!!!!!

I have added 6 Antminer S7's to my network....But surely they would not effect this  ??

How can i sort this out guys ?

Cheers

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[shield132]

Internet speed doesn't affect your mine rate but at the same time it's important factor, at least you need normal internet, not higher, there isn't difference between 10mbps and 100mbps when mining but you need normal speed for downloading previous blocks and uploading the block you just found and it reduces the chanse of the block you just found from being orphaned.

[Decoded]

Yes, it does affect it. Some might say greatly. Your bandwidth is required to download the previous block, so your miner knows what transactions and how to add them to the block it's creating. This means an up to 1MB download, which if you have a 0.17 megabit download speed, will take 40 seconds to download. That's huge. That's trillions of hashes behind the network when you start.

What I'm thinking is that you're being throttled by your ISP for downloading too much. When your monthly/yearly plan ends, you'll be fixed. Don't worry.

P.S. Be grateful, because here in Australia, we only get 15 megabits, if we're in the metro areas...

[BigBoom3599]

Depends on if you're solo mining or pool mining, if you're solo mining and running the node yourself you'll have a disadvantage over the rest of the network as Decoded mentioned. But if you're pool mining you barely need anything, somewhere around 1-10 kbps was the minimum IIRC.

[Decoded]

Depends on if you're solo mining or pool mining, if you're solo mining and running the node yourself you'll have a disadvantage over the rest of the network as Decoded mentioned. But if you're pool mining you barely need anything, somewhere around 1-10 kbps was the minimum IIRC.

Yep. Solo mining requires you to download the previous block to generate the current block header that you will work on. Usually a pool will generate it for you and send you the block header, which will only be a couple of kilobytes, bytes even.

The thing is, every hash counts. And even downloading a single byte will take away precious time.

[-ck]

If you're running a full bitcoin node, that could do it. Mining itself uses hardly any bandwidth by comparison though.

[QuintLeo]

A full bitcoin node uses a MAXIMUM of 1 Megabyte every 10 minutes to download a block.

 INSIGNIFICANT.

 I was managing that *and* a multi-machine farm on a Virgin Mobile 3G cell connection for quite a while - connection was LUCKY to see 400k download speed in wee hours of the morning, more commonly 150-200k - my rejected ratio was a bit high (1-2% was the norm) but otherwise it worked fine.


 Cable is NOTORIOUS for being oversubscribed - my current cable connection ALWAYS gets very slow on Sunday afternoons and somewhat slower the entire weekend, as folks on the same "loop" tie up lots of bandwidth watching TV. THAT, OP, is probably the issue - mining bandwidth usage is VERY small.


 Luckily, cable internet for me is a backup connection, not my primary "fiber to the interface for the electric meter remote reading box, 100 Megabit Ethernet to ME" connection.

[-ck]

A full bitcoin node uses a MAXIMUM of 1 Megabyte every 10 minutes to download a block.

 INSIGNIFICANT.

While I acknowledge that oversubscribed cable is a real problem of its own, the issue is not just download b/w being used by a bitcoind node, it is upload bandwidth. Once your upload is saturated, your download bogs down immensely due to delayed acknowledgement of packets. Using quality of service and restricting bitcoind outbound bandwidth can make a massive difference to a normal domestic internet connection. Most uploads are very limited even if they're very fast download. Not everyone is blessed with optic fibre broadband... The difference here with adsl2 is dramatic.

[QuintLeo]

Point.

 Been a while but I remember that issue when I was one of the first ADSL customers for a particular ISP and also remember it being an issue at times on the ISDN connection I had before that (2 bonded 64k down, control channel at 16k also used as up).

 However, OP did specify that their download speed was crazy-low at times for a 70 Mbps (max) connection - I suspect that is their issue, not the load put on the connection by mining.

[Shiroslullaby]

If you are not running a full node, you shouldn't be using that much data per month.
Unless you had a really low data cap, wouldn't latency be much more important? You want to be getting new blocks and sending results as quickly as possible, right?

[QuintLeo]

Latency matters, but not as much as you might think.

 2 years experience mining on a Exede sat connection (typical 700 ms round-trip ping, rarely as low as 660, most of that the double-hop out through geosynch) only kicked my rejects up into the 1-2% range instead of the sub-1% range I've had since my move last summer an aquisition of my first *GOOD* internet connection in about 6 years.

[mr.bitcoinerf11]

no miner will not effect it all cuz the miner connected to the pool
and started minning will take around 12%-10% of your internetspeed

[-ck]

Latency matters, but not as much as you might think.

 2 years experience mining on a Exede sat connection (typical 700 ms round-trip ping, rarely as low as 660, most of that the double-hop out through geosynch) only kicked my rejects up into the 1-2% range instead of the sub-1% range I've had since my move last summer an aquisition of my first *GOOD* internet connection in about 6 years.

There's a simple scientific explanation; there is no need to speculate. Blocks are found on average every 10 minutes or 600 seconds and your stale shares are anything delivered after the block change due to hardware change speed and network latency. If your latency is 1 second 1/600 of your shares will be late and stale from latency alone.

[QuintLeo]

Actually, most of my mining at the time was on Litecoin at the time, so 2.5 minute blocktime = 1/150 per second of lag.

 Probably lost a bit due to higher lost packet rate too, but not a lot.

[wmabern]

I'm on a 60mb down/5 up from Charter cable in the SE US. I can't complain at all. Must not be any real bandwidth hogs in the neighborhood. (Or maybe I'm the hog...?? Lol) Seriously, we're good.

I have no cable TV and get all of my TV over the internet. I also feed all the Wi-Fi in the house and a wired network with three always on PC's and two laptops. One of the isolated PC's is running a full BTC node/wallet and have five S9 miners running 24/7.

Couldn't be happier. I would cry if I had to use dsl again or dial-up. Arggggggggggggggg

[I can break these cuffs]

Mining will never touch your latency. I tested 5 antminer s9 doing solo and it still didn't touch my 6mbps at&t uverse. Something else is going on with either router or modem.

[Gatorelf]

this is what I was looking for, I have 50 Mbps and access to 200 Mbps which sounds like what I want to run a full node

[flameruk]

I'm on a 60mb down/5 up from Charter cable in the SE US. I can't complain at all. Must not be any real bandwidth hogs in the neighborhood. (Or maybe I'm the hog...?? Lol) Seriously, we're good.

I have no cable TV and get all of my TV over the internet. I also feed all the Wi-Fi in the house and a wired network with three always on PC's and two laptops. One of the isolated PC's is running a full BTC node/wallet and have five S9 miners running 24/7.

Couldn't be happier. I would cry if I had to use dsl again or dial-up. Arggggggggggggggg

Exactly why I moved everything to the office, you can't beat a leased line straight onto the Ethernet back bone!
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