Mining bandwith

[bobsmoke]

Hello,

Does anyone know how much bandwith a miner uses when mining into a pool?

thank you
bobsmoke

[byt411]

Very little. And I mean very very little, so little you shouldn't be worried about it.

[Rabinovitch]

Yep. Judging by Winbox application (a tool for control and configure MikroTik routers), it's about very few kbps...

[Chrithu]

For a reference: I have 2 Antminer U2s mining at 4 GH/s combined and they use 48 B/s up and 28 B/s down.

Bandwidth usage is really really small thanks to the stratum protocol.

[zvs]

48 bytes/s?  Uh, maybe if you use something that requires really high difficulty to count as a share..  But incoming data should still be just as high..

Anyway, Cudaminer bursted up to around 8kb/s upstream, w/ an average of around 1kb/s, probably.  I was using relatively low share difficulty, averaged maybe one every 3 seconds.

[Chrithu]

I know too little about the in depth details of how stratum works to know whether up and downstream should be equal or not. I just report the numbers that BFGMiner is showing for almost 3 months now.

The point still is that any state of the art DSL connection is more than sufficient to run a miner without having to upgrade. Heck you could even use ISDN or 56k modems for small time miners.

[Kprawn]

512k DSL should be fine, if you not hitting it with online gaming and downloads all the time. The average bandwidth usage is VERY low.

With a suitable share difficulty, which most pools will set automatically after detecting your hashrate, your bandwidth usage should be VERY low.

[bobsmoke]

Thank you all who answered .. very usefull!