help needed getting started with Jones' gear cube

[krone9]

Hi all

In another rash move to throw money at mining hardware that I won't recover, I just got myself a cube from Jones' Gear. I've built a few scrypt coin rigs but wanted to get involved with bitcoin as well - its a little beyond my comfort zone and whilst I think things are set up correctly, for some reason its not actually mining!

My Cube shows the following screen:
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/newuploads/gqqj3.jpg

I've installed my stratum proxy server (on Xubuntu) - thats churning away saying:

2014-01-14 01:16:25,762 INFO proxy client_service.handle_event # New job 6579 for prevhash 84a7d989, clean_jobs=False

and updates every now and then with a new line and new job number

Looks like the proxy server is working and listening for a miner, but the miner isn't actually starting and getting work for some reason - can someone put me out of my misery and let me know what I need to do?
(note I have 2 routers set up - one with 192.168.0.x addresses which is connected to one with 172.22.42.x addresses - I don't think thats the issue as I can happily connect from one to the other normally)

any advice very gratefully appreciated!

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[HellDiverUK]

You need to put your router's IP in the gateway. 

[krone9]

Thanks for the pointer

I changed both primary DNS and Gateway to be 172.22.42.1 but still no luck

Any ideas?

[TheWoodser]

Not to be a DBag, but have you followed "doggie Cube Setup Thread?"  Found here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=352658.0;topicseen

Tell me more about your network?  What IP address the Mining_Proxy running on?  I feel like it is a networking issue....

Also tell me more about the "Two Routers" and how those are setup.

I can help ya, I just need a bit more info.

Woodser

[TheWoodser]

Thanks for the pointer

I changed both primary DNS and Gateway to be 172.22.42.1 but still no luck

Any ideas?

Your "Gateway" needs to be on the same subnet as the IP of the Cube.   Either the cube needs to be 172.22.42.XXX or the gateway should be 192.168.1.XXX

Also, your DNS should be 8.8.8.8 (google's DNS) of the internal IP of the closest router to the Cube.

[krone9]

Thanks - getting a bit anxious now to see it working!

I have checked the doggie cub setup thread - I did follow it initially but I wanted to be sure so have just double checked.

Re my setup : basically I have one router here that I don't control and one router I do. My internet connection comes into the one I don't have control over, and it comes into my house to a switch which serves the whole house. My mining rigs (and cube) are connected to the switch. All 3 other rigs are working fine (scrypt mining on cgminer)

So internet -> switch -> rigs including the Cube : this is on 172.22.42.x subnet
(and seperately I have a seperate wireless router : which is on 192.168.0.x subnet)

So I have now put the cube on the same subnet as the stratum proxy server to make sure its more straight forward.

proxy server (also a mining rig) is at 172.22.42.42
Cube is at 172.22.42.254

My BE Cube settings are now:
IP : 172.22.42.254   
Mask : 255.255.255.0
Gateway   172.22.42.1 (closest router to the cube)
WEB Port   8000
Primary DNS   172.22.42.1 (closest router to the cube)
Secondary DNS 8.8.8.8   
Pool ports   8330, 8330
Pool addresses   172.22.42.42,172.22.42.42
Miners user:pass   [user.worker]:[password],[user.worker]:[password]

Still showing zero MHs, utility, efficiency (how quickly should it update?)

(Thank you so much for your help, all - I am learning so much as I go!)

[krone9]

SOLVED :
my problem was that I was pointing at ports 8330 when I should have been using 8332

There is another tutorial (maybe on Jones Gear which is VERY similar to the dogie one) which states 8330 incorrectly

Dogie is correct, but I missed it when I checked - doh!

thank you so much for the help  - pretty happy now!

[krone9]

Followup question:

I'm only getting 38% efficiency from the cube after a bit of stabilisation.

I suspect this is due to a poor choice of PSU but would be great to get some tips before I randomly throw more money down the drain...
Its currently running off a Corsair CX500 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0092ML0MY/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

If this was a bad selection, would someone mind recommending me an alternative (having made rash promises about not buying any more cryptoequipment it only needs to power one cube!)


As depressing as it is to know you'll never see a return on your miner, its even worse when its not running at full whack...

[jonesgear]

Hi krone9,

That PSU works well in our experience.

Are you still having poor efficiency with the cube? If so, we offer a 30 day warranty replacements on all of our products and are happy to offer one on one troubleshooting as well. If you are interested in either, just send us a note (support@jonesgear.com). Please include your order number in the email. A screenshot of your Cube's config page (while hashing) would help as well.

Regards,
  Kevin
  Jones Gear

[krone9]

Sorry - thought I had replied to this!

My cube is now running absolutely fine, but only in Low clock mode. Was well packed, very promptly shipped and came with very easy setup instructions.

I absolutely love it - its so little hassle and very very stable. If I hadn't been ordered not to spend more money on mining equipment (by she who must be obeyed) I would be buying more of these!

Question : how can I get it to run in High clock mode? Would be great to get this running at full efficiency

Also can anyone advise on merge mining pools (have not yet gone through the forum but if you happen to read this and can recommend a good merge mining pool let me know!)