1.6% rejected shares, acceptable?

[Awalt541]

Hello, I have 2 6850's mining at ~248 mh/s each.
I was curious if <2% stale/invalid shares is an acceptable number to have, if not how would I lower it.
I am using cgminer if it makes a difference.
Thanks,
Andrew

[norulezapply]

It mainly depends on your latency to the pool you are using.

You can lower it by using a pool with a lower ping/latency (IE a pool closer to your physical location)

If you're in Europe and mining on a US pool server, for example, you would have more stales than if you mined on a European pool server.

1.6% is a little bit high but still not that bad. I get about 0.7%. Anything less than 1% is acceptable for me personally.

[zvs]

on maxbtc for current round:

62491 shares
52 stale

i use phoenix, it does getwork requests frequently

ed:

10707 shares
6 stales

since last reset and stopping a file transfer 

[Awalt541]

I ended up changing my intensity (from 6) to dynamic and its well below 1%

[ice_chill]

I get around 1.2% on BFL Single and Deepbit.

[DrHaribo]

With a good miner program and pool you should easily stay below 1% stale.