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[citronick]

CDF[Erl] 0.992506 ... I'm not convinced it's variance ...

Edit: the main point being, yes they've found blocks ... that's been the case since they started mining.
The problem being how many blocks they've found.

Well we can never know as most of them jumped ship. So they could have never had a chance to redeem themselves. That's partly why the pool suffered such a dry spell imo. But hard to say definetivly.  I'd love for you to run a report of blocks found over the last 4-5 months and by what version cgminer or bmminer.

BR

I'm pretty sure Kano knows what he is talking about.  If anyone would know about pools/luck and mining software it is him.  It would be hard to find a better expert.  

I never said he didnt.  I have the utmost respect for Kano. It's just if s9v1 has a real issue then how do we justify pointing it at any pool. As Phil suggests we know something is wrong so let's put the screws to f2pool. I don't think that is right at all. Where my machines run I cannot upgrade to s9v2 as they will def overheat.  I need full control of frequencies when it goes north of 80 deg f.  Not trying to rock the boat.

BR

Well I have to keep them down locked so manual settings are my only choice.

If you think they screw f2pool you could point them at antpool.

Although to many people they are the same pool or have the same people backing them.

This is hard to explain but I will give my best shot. I used to host a lot of 1 t.b. Dragon miners with li in China
They worked pretty well pointed to f2 pool or to antpool .

They were terrible point to Kano or ck solo.

I know they altered code on dragon miner.

I also know it seems that an effort was made to harm kanos pool by altering cgminer for years .

I could not mine a few altered cgmining devices well with Kano.

The tubes needed correct or special port to mine here.

It boils down to Kano giving us the fees and antpool f2pool keeping the fees.

Or segwit.  But this is a ramble

Just discussed with my ISP and we decided to lock down the S9s v1 as v1 -- no upgrades and will mine at another PPLNS pool.

However, I will bring 20 to kano pool to join the 120 x A721s currently mining here.

This will give a s9v1 target sample size (specific to citronick) for Kano to further track and monitor the current stats.

Kano, workers citronick.grayXXX (A721 x 120) and citronick.juviaXXX (s9v1 x 20). FYI

[Vegasdude]

I have an S9 i just put online here and the guy I bought it from said to NOT update the firmware on the S9 I have... He said it is the old "GOOD" firmware..whatever that means...so i will leave it...On unit it says Ver1.0 What is best for the pool?....I have a second one coming this week but unsure of what firmware version will be on that unit...I'm new to this so still learning...

[citronick]

Im still ticked tho.  But not bugging as bad as when fedex was making it sound like it was either not going to arrive at all or be held up for a long time.  

They are a b****h of a company. #ihateFedEx

I hope you get them through.  I can tell you that I currently have a package from last April that is held in a facility and another from December.  It's only FedEx with international. My packages haven't been delivered and they are charging me "holding fees."  

I hope you get your packages quickly and you may want to consider options for expediting ... so you can point them to the best bitcoin mining pool.

I have good experience with DHL.

They moved more than 200 x miners from China to ISP (Canada) without major glitches and on-time.

I have bad experience with UPS and Fedex (missing & untraceable packages, damaged in transit, prolonged custom checks, incomplete paperwork, bad customer service).

I feel for the guy who got his consignment busted because of the "HASH BO" thing - that is just ridiculous.

Bitmain should just standardize the packing to say "Computer Equipment".

[Sr.Urbanist]

They are a b****h of a company. #ihateFedEx

I have good experience with DHL.

I wish we still had them here. USPS is the only way I can reliably ship out internationally, which I do frequently.

They moved more than 200 x miners from China to ISP (Canada) without major glitches and on-time.

Did you have to pay customs fees?

I have bad experience with UPS and Fedex (missing & untraceable packages, damaged in transit, prolonged custom checks, incomplete paperwork, bad customer service).

I told them I needed the number for their attorney and they provided it to me within about 15 seconds.

#ihateFedEx

I feel for the guy who got his consignment bested because of the "HASH BO" thing - that is just ridiculous.

No doubt.  Stay on them.  Every day they are down it's costing you mining. Maybe it's a way BITMAIN is tryis to control difficulty??? #didIgetTrumpd? (conspiracy as normal)

I really hope you get them, now! That's really messed up.  I could understand if it was a shipment of rugs and avacados from Morocco.  I've seen that stuff on the TV, so I am an expert; they can simply open the package and pass it along as fine. I wonder if there are other problems. I wonder if PTP would have helped prevent this type of thing? I wonder what Kano thinks of us talking 'bout the enemy ^{(just kidding, China)}?

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We've got on a bunch more PH, up 8 or so, we should be solving more blocks ....  

[citronick]

They moved more than 200 x miners from China to ISP (Canada) without major glitches and on-time.

Did you have to pay customs fees?

Of course.... its the Royal Canadian Customs after all 

BTW...

DHL Express is a division of the German logistics company Deutsche Post. DHL providing international express mail services. Deutsche Post DHL is the world's largest logistics company operating around the world, particularly in sea and air mail. Source: Wikipedia

[wmabern]

Well, all of my S9's pointed at the pool have been "upgraded" to version 2.0.0. I hesitate to call the loss of fan control and the easy changing of frequencies an upgrade.

The two un-flashed S9's were running fine at 625Mhz. But I went ahead and set them 600Mhz. 650Mhz would cause them to run too hot and getting warmer around here as the days progress. I will probably have to take all of the miners down to 550 or even 500 as summer returns.

For now, three of the S9's are at 600Mhz - their rated speed from Bitmain. The other S9 is at 550, also the rated speed from Bitmain.

All total, I'm running at ~50TH give or take a TH either direction.

Let's crack some BLOCKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!          

[Sr.Urbanist]

What are the new S9s? v1 o 2? My BIOS says 2013-2014 ...

[kano]

What are the new S9s? v1 o 2? My BIOS says 2013-2014 ...

New are all v2 you can see in the web interface

[Sr.Urbanist]

New are all v2

Okay, cool.
Thanks.

[kano]

Another glitch failover at 07:19 UTC but all connected immediately straight back again.
This time was the main pool passthru, SG and JP.

NL, NYA and DE were unaffected.

[Sr.Urbanist]

Another glitch failover at 07:19 UTC but all connected immediately straight back again.
This time was the main pool passthru, SG and JP.

NL, NYA and DE were unaffected.

Gracias para la heads up. I was wondering why the hasj crash and was giving my brother a quick lesson for when I am gone ...

[smutboy420]

Well, all of my S9's pointed at the pool have been "upgraded" to version 2.0.0. I hesitate to call the loss of fan control and the easy changing of frequencies an upgrade.

The two un-flashed S9's were running fine at 625Mhz. But I went ahead and set them 600Mhz. 650Mhz would cause them to run too hot and getting warmer around here as the days progress. I will probably have to take all of the miners down to 550 or even 500 as summer returns.

For now, three of the S9's are at 600Mhz - their rated speed from Bitmain. The other S9 is at 550, also the rated speed from Bitmain.

All total, I'm running at ~50TH give or take a TH either direction.

It would be great if someone were able to host the files for older firmware for the bimain miners..  I see a ton of people not happy that bitmain took down the old firmware versions and forcing people into using the crappy newer versions.  That seem more like downgrades then upgrades.

[tbonetony]

Well, all of my S9's pointed at the pool have been "upgraded" to version 2.0.0. I hesitate to call the loss of fan control and the easy changing of frequencies an upgrade.

The two un-flashed S9's were running fine at 625Mhz. But I went ahead and set them 600Mhz. 650Mhz would cause them to run too hot and getting warmer around here as the days progress. I will probably have to take all of the miners down to 550 or even 500 as summer returns.

For now, three of the S9's are at 600Mhz - their rated speed from Bitmain. The other S9 is at 550, also the rated speed from Bitmain.

All total, I'm running at ~50TH give or take a TH either direction.

It would be great if someone were able to host the files for older firmware for the bimain miners..  I see a ton of people not happy that bitmain took down the old firmware versions and forcing people into using the crappy newer versions.  That seem more like downgrades then upgrades.

If you file a support ticket with them, you should be able to get the right version of the old firmware. Then it'll be up to you how you want to baby it or host it for the community, if you feel like.

[smutboy420]

Quote from: smutboy420 on Today at 10:28:24 AM
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Well, all of my S9's pointed at the pool have been "upgraded" to version 2.0.0. I hesitate to call the loss of fan control and the easy changing of frequencies an upgrade.

The two un-flashed S9's were running fine at 625Mhz. But I went ahead and set them 600Mhz. 650Mhz would cause them to run too hot and getting warmer around here as the days progress. I will probably have to take all of the miners down to 550 or even 500 as summer returns.

For now, three of the S9's are at 600Mhz - their rated speed from Bitmain. The other S9 is at 550, also the rated speed from Bitmain.

All total, I'm running at ~50TH give or take a TH either direction.



It would be great if someone were able to host the files for older firmware for the bimain miners..  I see a ton of people not happy that bitmain took down the old firmware versions and forcing people into using the crappy newer versions.  That seem more like downgrades then upgrades.



If you file a support ticket with them, you should be able to get the right version of the old firmware. Then it'll be up to you how you want to baby it or host it for the community, if you feel like.

ahhhh Good idea if they are not being completely stingy on handing out the older versions of the firmware. 

[ComputerGenie]

.... I hesitate to call the loss of fan control and the easy changing of frequencies an upgrade....

Changing freq on older rigs with 2.0 hasn't changed, it's just hidden...
It's still at http://your_rig's_IP_here/cgi-bin/minerAdvanced.cgi

[d57heinz]

@citronik

Can you tell us your experience with your s9v1 since your the only one I know that has a good amount of them.  Have they been finiding blocks on the other pool? I'd imagine since your on pplns then it hasn't brought down the luck of that pool any.  


BR

[wmabern]

.... I hesitate to call the loss of fan control and the easy changing of frequencies an upgrade....

Changing freq on older rigs with 2.0 hasn't changed, it's just hidden...
It's still at http://your_rig's_IP_here/cgi-bin/minerAdvanced.cgi

Very interesting. It DOES take you to a frequency control page. However, when I decided to bump one of miners from 550 to 575, it popped up a warning saying it would take 3 hours to search frequencies before it starts mining.
I decided, No.

Thanks for the tip anyway.

[smutboy420]

Quote from: ComputerGenie on Today at 12:01:09 PM
Quote from: wmabern on Today at 05:05:51 AM
.... I hesitate to call the loss of fan control and the easy changing of frequencies an upgrade....
Changing freq on older rigs with 2.0 hasn't changed, it's just hidden...
It's still at http://your_rig's_IP_here/cgi-bin/minerAdvanced.cgi

Very interesting. It DOES take you to a frequency control page. However, when I decided to bump one of miners from 550 to 575, it popped up a warning saying it would take 3 hours to search frequencies before it starts mining.
I decided, No.

Thanks for the tip anyway.

I seem some things saying to let it sit for 5 hours before seeing if any change even works.     Gosh I get happy whenever I start my s7 and see it hiting full hash rate in about a minute or 2      But hours before even getting to mine bites the big one. esp when someone wants to get cracking on mining

aint nobody got time for that. lol 

[wmabern]

I seem some things saying to let it sit for 5 hours before seeing if any change even works.     Gosh I get happy whenever I start my s7 and see it hiting full hash rate in about a minute or 2      But hours before even getting to mine bites the big one. esp when someone wants to get cracking on mining

aint nobody got time for that. lol  

I agree. Two of my S9's were down yesterday for about an hour or so each one as I flashed to the auto-tune firmware to bring them up to BMMiner Ver. 2.

Of course, I lost all of my static IP addresses and had to find the new DHCP addresses and then go in change them from ant poo to Kano. Also had to figure out which IP address was attached to which miner. But that wasn't a big deal.

The miner that I thought about changing with the tip from @ComputerGenie was a Bitmain S9 550Mhz miner. It is set on 550Mhz and is running fairly cool. I thought about bumping the frequency up to 575Mhz to see how it behaved. But with the message saying it may take up to three hours to search the frequencies, I decided not to mess with it.

Additionally, 575Mhz is normally not an option on the frequency settings on the new firmware. SO I didn't know if that would take or not. And 600Mhz would probably cause the machine to run hotter than I would like.
(I also have three other S9's that are also now flashed with BMMiner version 2.0.0. The are 600Mhz miners, so that is where they are set. No problems.)

Yes, I too love the quickness of the S7 booting up and starting to mine. I have three S7's that are slightly under-clocked to 650, 675, and 675Mhz because of temp concerns. Luckily, it's cold enough around here today to open the windows and let the miner suck in the colder air!

All four S9's and three S7's are running on Kano.

COME ON TEAM!!! LET'S BUST SOME BLOCKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

EDIT: Two or three blocks today would suffice!!! 

[Biffa]

.... I hesitate to call the loss of fan control and the easy changing of frequencies an upgrade....

Changing freq on older rigs with 2.0 hasn't changed, it's just hidden...
It's still at http://your_rig's_IP_here/cgi-bin/minerAdvanced.cgi

Very interesting. It DOES take you to a frequency control page. However, when I decided to bump one of miners from 550 to 575, it popped up a warning saying it would take 3 hours to search frequencies before it starts mining.
I decided, No.

Thanks for the tip anyway.

I've done it loads of times, it doesn't take 3 hours.