Setting Up Antminer S1 with Wi-Fi Antenna

[bitcoin_miner]

For stability connection, you can use cable and connect via switch hub

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[frankenmint]

1st of all, I DEFINITELY appreciate not needing to wade through the general questions and irrelevant stuff posted elsewhere (the Setup and troubleshooting thread)  This definitely fixed my headache.  I had my setup working fine and I was just 'insistent' on having static IP for my devices so that they stay persistent even after power outages.  I'm trying to point them to a stratum server so that I can easily change pools without needing to ip/ssh into them all.

I will try one as a test with a static IP - I was ignoring WAN altogether but now I'll do as suggested and change it to dchp as well

It connects to wifi with static ip but it doesn't mine, I did have ipv4 broadcast empty as well as custom dns empty, filling that in with my router ip and trying this: okay 10 minutes and two reboots, the miner isn't giving a d/c noise and I can still reach it on the network, but it refuses to mine which shows me that Static IP with wireless isn't possible on these machines 

Frowny Faces for all!

[bu..bu...bu..but use Ethernet its better anyway! - for my layout and # of devices that is a sheer PITA and as others here said, my wifi setup works fine on DCHP]

[Aurum]

Your router should also be able to assign it a static IP

Only if your router can see it in the first place. Having my router assign a static IP to the ethernet wan did not get me wifi. Setting my wan to DHCP Client and setting a static IP for my wwan and restarting with cable unplugged did not get me wifi either.

[ineedit]

Your router should also be able to assign it a static IP

Only if your router can see it in the first place. Having my router assign a static IP to the ethernet wan did not get me wifi. Setting my wan to DHCP Client and setting a static IP for my wwan and restarting with cable unplugged did not get me wifi either.

You cannot have DHCP WWAN and static IP for WAN, if you do the static IP WAN takes precedence and works as the highest priority route to the Default Gateway.

[Icebjerg]

I'm having issues setting up the wifi to the antminer. I have factory reset the unit twice, and followed the set up exact both times.
I have a wifi antenna attached also. I also have 3 other ants running wifi, it's just the new on I received yesterday that's no working.

Plugged in Ethernet loged in 192.168.1.99
Changed Wan to DHCP
Save and apply, Reboot

Log into 192.168.1.8
Selected network tab, scan, and this is what it reads,

97%    Neighbors
Channel: 1 | Mode: Master | BSSID: 00:18:E7:E6:3E:24 | Encryption: mixed WPA/WPA2 - PSK

Click Join, enter wpa, change network name to Neighbors, Submit
Then it goes to general setup

    [Signal: 0 dBm / Noise: 0 dBm]
0%    Mode: Unknown | SSID: Neighbors
BSSID: 00:18:E7:E6:3E:24 | Encryption: -
Channel: 11 (0.000 GHz) | Tx-Power: 0 dBm
Signal: 0 dBm | Noise: 0 dBm
Bitrate: 0.0 Mbit/s | Country: US

Click save and apply
Then I reboot without Ethernet cable, and no wifi

Miner runs great with Ethernet,

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Thank you,

[mozilafirefox]

Hello,

should i buy antenna with Male connector or female connector?

below is RP-SMA Female connector, works with device with RP-SMA Male connector
http://www.ebay.in/itm/tplink-tl-ant2408cl-2-4ghz-8dbi-indoor-omni-directional-antenna-tp-link-/321344345402?pt=lh_defaultdomain_203

Does this work?
Help pls.

[flounderella]

THATS GOT IT!

OK so just to duplicate ALL the information I found useful here (thanks to elduce for passing on mwax321 suggestion), here is how to get the wifi antenna working & what to do if you screw it up.

1) Select WiFi, scan for networks, add your wifi network with whatever the defaults are (create a new WWAN interface, etc).  Just do it the way you would if you had no idea what you were doing.
2) Go back and select the interface for WAN, edit it, and change from STATIC to DHCP CLIENT and click the button directly below it to change the type (not the save or save & apply, but directly next to it to change the type, it might be like "REALLY CHANGE TYPE?", click yes).
3) Unplug the machine, unplug the ethernet cable, plug the electricity back in, wait about 30 seconds.

In the even you screwed up your wifi settings, there is a RESET button on the "card" that the ethernet cable plugs into with white text labeling "S2" (i think, my eyes aren't great).  On my particular machine this button did nothing, so i had to manually do a hard reset.  On the original version, there may not be a button.

If you completely f~k up your machine and cant get back into it, this is how to reset
https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FUa75bkY.jpg&t=536&c=Ah9HaW4XprLEGA


I can't draw on this image, but i'll describe as best I can using my newbish vocabulary.
Two points of interest:
The big blueish-purpleish chip thing where the wifi antenna wire plugs in.  On the left side of that are 11 connections to the green silicon board.  Not the one on the very bottom, but the one right above that (2nd one).
To the left and up from that about an inch away there is a red light.  Directly left of that are two metal dots.  The upper-most dot that's closest to the red light.

You need to bend a paperclip and touch both of these at the same time while the machine is plugged in.  Not for very long, half a second is all it takes, the machine (and possibly you) will have a sudden heart attack and go completely dark & silent very abruptly.  There should be no risk of electrocution here, but bear in mind I'm just kind of stumbling through to-do lists without a good understanding of what I'm doing here, so no guarantees.  After a lengthy (was nearly 10 minutes for me) boot up, the machine will put itself back on 192.168.1.99.  I never needed to change my computer to static IP or change my router to 192.168.2.1 for any of this, but apparently the older models default to 192.168.2.99 so you need to move your router from 192.168.2.1 (which will kick all your computers off the wifi).

I now have this noisy stinky filthy (possibly radioactive) machine grinding away in my basement.

I love the Antminer S1, and I really like this company, but I'm also quite happy to have this thing out of my room

edit:
Sorry, I actually took about an hour pawing through the thread & didn't find what I was looking for.  Rather than having every possible problem the machine can encounter all in one thread it would make sense to have threads addressing and solving specific problems for better indexing.

Feel free to delete the thread

This was great. I removed the wifi antenna from my fios router (which only acts as a bridge to my Apple router) and added it to an ant; now going to move it to another room in the house, so my wife can dry her hair in the morning without tripping over one of the circuits every day :p

[stsbrad]

Hi,
Try to switch WAN to DHCP. By the way, I also had to use hard reset after bringing of interfaces

you could find it using printed version of forum page & find on page browser function in sushi thread

Here are details https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=344970.msg4529537#msg4529537

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

Been slamming my head against the wall on this.

[joesmoe2012]

While wifi does seem to work okay, I've found cabling to be much more reliable.

Also note that if you are using consumer grade wifi equipment and trying to connect dozens of ant s1's to your access point, the access point is likely the problem.

I have a couple dozen units successfully connecting via wifi, but they are very close to the WAP and it's an enterprise grade WAP that can easily handle a few dozen simultaneous connections (in fact it can handle over 100...take a look at the ubiquity stuff).

Hash speed and everything else seems about the same as the wired ones (i get a lot of variation even between wired ones), and on my local stratum server, the reported MS response times for the wired vs wireless are the same.

However in the end i've decided to stick with wired wherever/whenever possible.

[booradlly]

I'm having issues setting up the wifi to the antminer. I have factory reset the unit twice, and followed the set up exact both times.
I have a wifi antenna attached also. I also have 3 other ants running wifi, it's just the new on I received yesterday that's no working.

Plugged in Ethernet loged in 192.168.1.99
Changed Wan to DHCP
Save and apply, Reboot

Log into 192.168.1.8
Selected network tab, scan, and this is what it reads,

97%    Neighbors
Channel: 1 | Mode: Master | BSSID: 00:18:E7:E6:3E:24 | Encryption: mixed WPA/WPA2 - PSK

Click Join, enter wpa, change network name to Neighbors, Submit
Then it goes to general setup

    [Signal: 0 dBm / Noise: 0 dBm]
0%    Mode: Unknown | SSID: Neighbors
BSSID: 00:18:E7:E6:3E:24 | Encryption: -
Channel: 11 (0.000 GHz) | Tx-Power: 0 dBm
Signal: 0 dBm | Noise: 0 dBm
Bitrate: 0.0 Mbit/s | Country: US

Click save and apply
Then I reboot without Ethernet cable, and no wifi

Miner runs great with Ethernet,

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Thank you,

So I had the same issue, I got it working.

My issues were two fold, I had entered the wrong password and under advanced settings the mode was set to G+N. I've had issues with wireless N in the past so I killed N by setting it to Wireless-G only.
Instantly everything worked.

[oskuro]

Hi, i received another S1 today, with wifi antenna.

Mmmmm i think all S1 have assigned the same IP, is that correct? So, maybe if i connect it using wifi , new one will have same IP that the old S1, so... do i need to change the IP of new S1 i suppose, but how? i have to connect it using cable first and change IP that way???

thanks

edit: ok, found how to change ip here

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=344970.0

[aigeezer]

I saw this thread months ago and didn't pay much attention as I had plenty of ethernet ports available at the time. Yesterday I ran out of ports and moved a lot of miners around, including some S1s that needed to go wireless now.

The thread entries, especially the posts from reduxde (OP), were really handy as all the other tutorials I've found left out important info, particularly info about changing  WAN to DHCP once the WWAN is set to static.

Hence the bump - I'm guessing more people will move their S1s to wireless non-prime locations as the miners age, and the thread can help them.

Edit: yikes - I forgot to mention my "big discovery" - after the change to wifi, I still couldn't reach the miner from a PC until I rebooted the router (Netgear R7000), even though the S1 was obviously mining and its hashing showed up fine at a pool. Now, after the router reboot, the S1 luci gui interface works fine again even though the S1 is no longer tethered to the router by an ethernet cable.

[theskeletonboi]

Thanks for the post! I just can't connect to my miner using the browser though when I do this, unless I connect via Ethernet. 

[joesmoe2012]

Wifi just isn't reliable enough.

[aigeezer]

Wifi just isn't reliable enough.

To each his own. My Wifi S1s have been up 24/7 for over a month now, with no loss of hashrate reported poolside. Two of them lost signal after a router reboot on one occasion. No other anomalies though so far.

[btmtb]

Wifi just isn't reliable enough.

To each his own. My Wifi S1s have been up 24/7 for over a month now, with no loss of hashrate reported poolside. Two of them lost signal after a router reboot on one occasion. No other anomalies though so far.

Also had no issue over several months, though I was operated undervolted. Consistent and reliable (as far as the wifi connection goes anyway, right up to the point the units died).

[unrealistic]

usually ethernet is more reliable than wifi.

[joesmoe2012]

It also greatly depends onhow much is going on with your wifi network. If it is under any sort of heavy load, the issues will be far more noticeable.

[HDutchie]

Sorry to bump a dead thread, but what wireless antenna did you use and where did you get it? I can’t find one anywhere!

[aigeezer]

Sorry to bump a dead thread, but what wireless antenna did you use and where did you get it? I can’t find one anywhere!

I used some from an old (dead) D-Link router I had sitting around, and I got some others from Newegg. They had a few to choose from, and if memory serves I wound up with some of these:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833998199