Internet Speed Requirements

[Centaurus]

Is there any internet speed requirement for mining purpose?

Is 1Mbps (128 kBytes/s) enough?
Is 10Mbps (1.25 kBytes/s) better or needless?

Thanks!
I am planning to build my first rig

[hostmaster]

1megabit will do foryou. it uses about2kb network...

[ponchoman]

This gives me an idea. thank you very much Mr or Mrs OP

[beegatewood]

But if you are planning to use remote desktop then you need good bandwith.

[waldox]

mining on 600khps scrypt uses very little bandwidth, probably 56k -128k connection will suffice

[DrG]

I ran 60 miners off a bridged wireless B connection for 1 month back in 2012 before stratum, bandwidth requirements are minimal, but low latency is helpful in preventing stales.

[sqabeloth]

Is there any internet speed requirement for mining purpose?

Is 1Mbps (128 kBytes/s) enough?
Is 10Mbps (1.25 kBytes/s) better or needless?

Thanks!
I am planning to build my first rig

Bitcoin mining is based on GPU, not internet speed.
It uses a tiny 1kb/minute or something like that.

Thanks a lot for this post. before that I was thinking it is directly proportional to the  internet speed.

[cloverme]

Is there any internet speed requirement for mining purpose?

Is 1Mbps (128 kBytes/s) enough?
Is 10Mbps (1.25 kBytes/s) better or needless?

Thanks!
I am planning to build my first rig

To give you an idea of bandwidth required, for Jan 2014, every 1 Th/s of mining equaled 5.21 kbps inbound and 4.41 kbps outbound.  Very, very small in terms of internet traffic. Each cabinet I have has 10mbps and I come nowhere even near it.

[crocko]

Is there any internet speed requirement for mining purpose?

Is 1Mbps (128 kBytes/s) enough?
Is 10Mbps (1.25 kBytes/s) better or needless?

Thanks!
I am planning to build my first rig

Bitcoin mining is based on GPU, not internet speed.
It uses a tiny 1kb/minute or something like that.

WAS

[evansearle42]

Is there any internet speed requirement for mining purpose?

Is 1Mbps (128 kBytes/s) enough?
Is 10Mbps (1.25 kBytes/s) better or needless?

Thanks!
I am planning to build my first rig

Bitcoin mining is based on GPU, not internet speed.
It uses a tiny 1kb/minute or something like that.

WAS

what are you trying to say?

[turk]

Is there any internet speed requirement for mining purpose?

Is 1Mbps (128 kBytes/s) enough?
Is 10Mbps (1.25 kBytes/s) better or needless?

Thanks!
I am planning to build my first rig

Bitcoin mining is based on GPU, not internet speed.
It uses a tiny 1kb/minute or something like that.

WAS

what are you trying to say?

He was saying that Bitcoin is no longer mined (effectively) on a GPU.  Make that Asics.

[mellertson]

I use TimeWarner cable with 30mbits/second down and 1mbit/second up.  I'm mining at 1,100 kKash/second.  I also watch movies on Netflix and use Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) into a work computer 24 hours a day.  And my internet doesn't miss a beat!  In other words, mining seems to require very little network throughput. 

[surgexvb]

speed does not matter as much as latency.  running off wifi can add some extra latency to your connection, as well as the pool server you are connected to.

[muchogas]

Latency actually matters ALOT. I was mining for a while on some altcoin pool. I got a whole bunch of stale's and it was because I had latency of 300ms.

[DrG]

Latency actually matters ALOT. I was mining for a while on some altcoin pool. I got a whole bunch of stale's and it was because I had latency of 300ms.

That's pretty bad lag.  I mined for a short while off a wireless bridge-->router-->wireless adapter which is 2 wireless hops and I still has less than 1% stales mining BTC.

[r1senfa17h]

I'm running dozens of miners (5.8TH at the moment) and see about 80kbps outbound through my WAN.