Wifi vs wired internet for the rig

[deskless]

My current rigs are all using wired connection through wifi adapter. I am planning to move to use usb wifi adapter. The reason is to make rig more compact. Any suggestions from the community. My worry is that wifi connection may not be good due to proximity of GPUs. Any recommendation for the USB wifi adapter would be appreciated. Thank you.

[logicalray77]

My current rigs are all using wired connection through wifi adapter. I am planning to move to use usb wifi adapter. The reason is to make rig more compact. Any suggestions from the community. My worry is that wifi connection may not be good due to proximity of GPUs. Any recommendation for the USB wifi adapter would be appreciated. Thank you.

My farm consist of 10x 12GPU rigs. I started off with Wifi usb adaptors but as the farm grew I started having endless problems with it. When the rigs are in idle state the network was fine but as soon it`s start mining I had latency, signal drop and re-connection problems all round. I didn't even use 1mbps combined on the wifi. I guess firing up the GPU`s have some kind of impact on interference (even mounted on the roof for better line of sight)

I do however have one or two test rigs running on dongles but I dont monitor them 24/7 to check if there any disconnects.

I recommend for stability stick with wire.

[evlo]

wifi is ok, cables do go bad too, I have good snr on wifi with lot of rigs, however I can't use 2.4G logitech keyboard from more then about 1.5 from the rig, so maybe try different channels

[philipma1957]

Wifi is always a crap shoot  but if it works it is cool.

hard wired is far more reliable,but has fails.

The bigger and more complex you are the more wifi issues happen.

Don't commit to wifi or bust.

some amazon links

good low cost 10 pack of 10 foot length under 2.50 a cable

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N6S9CRY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?

and this switch below is okay

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003CFATTM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?

i have used this adapter below


 https://www.amazon.com/EDUP-ac600Mbps-Wireless-External-10-6-10-13/dp/B01CCMUN8C/ref=sr_1_3?

[Harai Goshi]

My current rigs are all using wired connection through wifi adapter. I am planning to move to use usb wifi adapter. The reason is to make rig more compact. Any suggestions from the community. My worry is that wifi connection may not be good due to proximity of GPUs. Any recommendation for the USB wifi adapter would be appreciated. Thank you.

I wouldnt recommend wifi for mining....just another potential issue to tinker with. 

I've always had connectivity issues w/ wifi when I've run rigs on it.  I have no idea if it was my access point, line of sight issues, interference or what...I just hard wired everything and solved the problem. 

The only rig I run wireless consistently is the test bench I use to configure individual cards, test PCIE risers, etc....and that's only because I end up moving it around a lot.  I do have spare usb wifi dongles plugged into some rigs though, just in case a switch dies or something. 

[deskless]

My current rigs are all using wired connection through wifi adapter. I am planning to move to use usb wifi adapter. The reason is to make rig more compact. Any suggestions from the community. My worry is that wifi connection may not be good due to proximity of GPUs. Any recommendation for the USB wifi adapter would be appreciated. Thank you.

My farm consist of 10x 12GPU rigs. I started off with Wifi usb adaptors but as the farm grew I started having endless problems with it. When the rigs are in idle state the network was fine but as soon it`s start mining I had latency, signal drop and re-connection problems all round. I didn't even use 1mbps combined on the wifi. I guess firing up the GPU`s have some kind of impact on interference (even mounted on the roof for better line of sight)

I do however have one or two test rigs running on dongles but I dont monitor them 24/7 to check if there any disconnects.

I recommend for stability stick with wire.

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.

[simpleCZAR]

I have rigs on wifi only..the issue is when you are mining. My fix
put one of the static shield covers from any equipment( I use the ones from riser cards) on the antenna and there will be no interference..it shields from EM interference
Cant comment on latency as never tried wired connection on same rigs
hope this helps

[Psynthax]

My current rigs are all using wired connection through wifi adapter. I am planning to move to use usb wifi adapter. The reason is to make rig more compact. Any suggestions from the community. My worry is that wifi connection may not be good due to proximity of GPUs. Any recommendation for the USB wifi adapter would be appreciated. Thank you.

My farm consist of 10x 12GPU rigs. I started off with Wifi usb adaptors but as the farm grew I started having endless problems with it. When the rigs are in idle state the network was fine but as soon it`s start mining I had latency, signal drop and re-connection problems all round. I didn't even use 1mbps combined on the wifi. I guess firing up the GPU`s have some kind of impact on interference (even mounted on the roof for better line of sight)

I do however have one or two test rigs running on dongles but I dont monitor them 24/7 to check if there any disconnects.

I recommend for stability stick with wire.

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.

But wired internet still the best for me. I used two kinds of internet(WIFI and Wired connection) in my house for my mining rig
I used 100Mbps WIFI for my mining rig that used wifi adapter because i just focus to get the best latency. Whatever how much bandwith is not so important as long as i can get the best latency for my rigs.No doubt wired will always give you best latency but about WIFI and that needs more effort to do that. I just use Xiaomi Mi Wifi USB dongle maybe it's not so good but it's not bad at all.

[sereze]

Sometimes you struggle with issues on your rig, try different things, overclocks page file and all that, eventually you see that you have a bad connection problem. I'd never ever use wifi if I have a chance of having wired connection.

[nc50lc]

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.

For extremely long cables to connect the extender/another network switch, just buy a long cat-6 cable and two (or more) RJ-45 connectors.
You can just "crimp" it yourself (if you have the tools and expertise, even time for practice is enough) or pay a computer technician to do that for you.
Usually, they only charge less than the service fee for a simple crimping.

[libert19]

My current rigs are all using wired connection through wifi adapter. I am planning to move to use usb wifi adapter. The reason is to make rig more compact. Any suggestions from the community. My worry is that wifi connection may not be good due to proximity of GPUs. Any recommendation for the USB wifi adapter would be appreciated. Thank you.

My farm consist of 10x 12GPU rigs. I started off with Wifi usb adaptors but as the farm grew I started having endless problems with it. When the rigs are in idle state the network was fine but as soon it`s start mining I had latency, signal drop and re-connection problems all round. I didn't even use 1mbps combined on the wifi. I guess firing up the GPU`s have some kind of impact on interference (even mounted on the roof for better line of sight)

I do however have one or two test rigs running on dongles but I dont monitor them 24/7 to check if there any disconnects.

I recommend for stability stick with wire.

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.

[naska21]

There is one more option, my rig is out of range of router's WiFi  as it is  located outside and electromagnetic waves are isolated,  so I have to  use powerline Ethernet adapters,  so far, no problems with such arrangement.

[adaseb]

Like some of the replies in this thread, I've had issues with using wifi with mining rigs. I think if you have 1 or 2 rigs or if the rigs are more spaced apart it won't be an issue but if you got like 10 rigs, each very close to one another then you will get interference and signal drops.

The dead wifi connections were an issue because with the Claymore software, a no internet for a brief period caused the system to hang for some reason.

So I saved myself the headache and just wired up all the rigs and all the issues went away. You can just get a bunch of old router and plug one into the other if you need more ports. Each router can power up to 4 other network connections.

[mak013]

If there is a possible - use only cable connection. My experience with using WiFi says, that hashrate was about 10% less then by cable. I tested it about a week 2 years ago. After this test i refused to use wifi for mining.

[ricecooker]

My current rigs are all using wired connection through wifi adapter. I am planning to move to use usb wifi adapter. The reason is to make rig more compact. Any suggestions from the community. My worry is that wifi connection may not be good due to proximity of GPUs. Any recommendation for the USB wifi adapter would be appreciated. Thank you.

I'm using powerline adaptors for my rigs in the garage. Works great so far. It's basically internet down your power lines. 

[Dewi Aries]

Wire is better, because wifi have issues sometime and i think if use wired, connection is different with use wifi. Maybe see other's reply, it is better to use wire for your internet especially for mining.

[logicalray77]

My current rigs are all using wired connection through wifi adapter. I am planning to move to use usb wifi adapter. The reason is to make rig more compact. Any suggestions from the community. My worry is that wifi connection may not be good due to proximity of GPUs. Any recommendation for the USB wifi adapter would be appreciated. Thank you.

My farm consist of 10x 12GPU rigs. I started off with Wifi usb adaptors but as the farm grew I started having endless problems with it. When the rigs are in idle state the network was fine but as soon it`s start mining I had latency, signal drop and re-connection problems all round. I didn't even use 1mbps combined on the wifi. I guess firing up the GPU`s have some kind of impact on interference (even mounted on the roof for better line of sight)

I do however have one or two test rigs running on dongles but I dont monitor them 24/7 to check if there any disconnects.

I recommend for stability stick with wire.

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.

Was a dual band, load balanced decent $300 router so was around 5 rigs per channel. After I wired all of the rigs it was smooth sailing from there. I recommend wired, it takes time and effort if you want to do it properly but results = stable network 

[KryptoKai]

Rather than some type of flaky wifi connection it would be better for you to use a powerline adaptor and use the copper electric cables as a route to your router, better performance and more stable

[adaseb]

I haven't tried this but maybe if you are getting interference issues then try the following.

If you got say 10 rigs, all close together and you got instability and dropped connections. Buy about 3-4 wifi routers, doesn't need to be dual-band the cheap $35 will work.

For each router set a different channel and alternate the rigs between the channels, and maybe this way you won't et the interference.

[deskless]

I haven't tried this but maybe if you are getting interference issues then try the following.

If you got say 10 rigs, all close together and you got instability and dropped connections. Buy about 3-4 wifi routers, doesn't need to be dual-band the cheap $35 will work.

For each router set a different channel and alternate the rigs between the channels, and maybe this way you won't et the interference.

My situation is different. I have rigs at different parts of apartment. So currently I use the cheap $35 dollar router and that works well. However the router needs to be plugged on and there is a wired connection from the router (wifi extender) to the rig. I am planning to make rigs compact and thought of replacing the wifi extender with the USB based wifi adapter so that there is one less component. This is the reason why I was looking for option for USB based wifi extender. It is possible that USB based will not work because of interference with the Graphics card.
Thanks for your message.