Mining pools -Is it worth pinging/mining at the nearest pool?

[BBitcoin92]

Hi All

Trying mining again as have another Antminer.

I will be using Brains Pool and have put on BrainsOS via flash/SD card.

I'm based in UK and wondered if the pool 'distance' matters at all?

Is it worth pinging the nearest pool?

I will only be running 180-200Th.

Thanks

[BitMaxz]

Yes, you should focus mining on lower ping pool servers. I think the minimum is below 120 ms ping.
But having a much lower ping if you found a pool with 70ms below is better to reduce stale shares.

If you are living in the EU, then try this pool stratum+tcp://eu.stratum.braiins.com:3333
It should be the right pool for EU miners.

[FanTuner]

Pool distance isn’t a huge factor, but it can help reduce stale shares and improve efficiency. I usually check latency with a ping, then pick the server that responds fastest. Brains Pool is reliable, and BrainsOS makes it easy to switch servers if needed.

[Sledge0001]

As others have stated the lower the latency the better.