Mining on WiFi

[Amstellodamois]

I ended up using WiFi and it works a treat for me, so...

One Rig uses a USB WiFi adapter, the other is connected via RJ45 to a router in repeating mode (said router using WiFi to connect to my main router connected to the internet)

[starlilyth]

Just dont.

The simplest way to explain it is: Wifi networking batches packets, which confuses most pools. It doesnt matter what kind of equipment you have, thats just how wifi works.

After having helped thousands of miners with their setups, we can safely say that while you can mine on wifi, it causes trouble more often than not, usually at the pool side.

Pool software in general isnt sophisticated enough to deal with loads of out of sequence packets, they prefer a steady stream of data. Larger pools have developed solutions for this of course, and your local network hardware may mitigate that if you have spent your money properly, but the average small miner mining on the average small altcoin pool will have trouble, in our experience.

Best of luck!
Lily
getpimp.org | miner.farm

[kissmarx]

We can do it with WIFI but it's not very reliable. That's my experience mining via wifi thru tp link. But maybe we can try another brand of adapter, and then maybe it can tell a better story.

[Bohr256]

When I first set up my rig I had it connected to a dial up and was mining for a month np (around 250-450 ms latency). The only problem was that the connection resetted every 24 hours, so I had to create a task to restart the rig to regain connection. Then I got a wifi dongle and was mining fine for a few months until the dongle died. Which brings us to my rig's current state: I had an old laptop collecting dust and used it to shared the ethernet connection with my rig. It's been working fine for the last 6 months @ 50-60 ms latency.

[xxcsu]

1.5 years old topic, someone brought back to life
so let me quote myself from another topic

If you are going to use WiFi in a mining farm then you are surely  gonna have connection problems as all load is on single router.

So if your rigs are hardwired, your rigs is not connected to a single router, and not all load is on a single router ? ? how many routers are you planning to use  for a few rigs whats are located in a different area of a apartment ?

My rigs are in different parts of apartment and therefore using Wired is not possible. I had to use wifi extender and connect rig to that extender using wired connection. It works usually but still wanted to find out option of removing the extender.
Thanks everyone for help.

Wired connection is always better, i would say the best. Its really doesnt matter you are using Wifi, Wired or PNA , if its set up right, you sould be good to go without any issues.

You have a few option other than wired connection, but not not much
Im posting links for you , so you can read and understand  better what im saying )

-Wifi - if you set up right , you cant have any issues ... get a access point with beam forming and MIMO function.
Example enGenius EAP 1250

If you dont want to wire anything, not even the access points, you have a option to build a whole home mesh wifi system, using the EAP 1250 what i linked earlier .

-Powerline Network Adapter, need some kind of short wiring, but you can use everywhere in your apartment.

[kissmarx]

We can do it with WIFI but it's not very reliable. That's my experience mining via wifi thru tp link. But maybe we can try another brand of adapter, and then maybe it can tell a better story.

Yes, through Wifi we are not getting better results and even tried my best to change many Wifi brands but it will help to benefit from it. I think we need to use mining rings which are best to use instead of using wifi.

Mining rings? What are they?