Hi, I'm completely new to mining and to using the Eligius Pool, and it was easy enough to get mining. The website and info were great. But I'm still familiarizing myself with things, so apologies if this is a simply answered question.
I've just received an antminer s7 and have it set up and mining on Eligius. I have a question about the stats page. I've got the stats provided from the antminer interface, and it lists the following for the 6+ hours I've been mining on Eligius so far: Elapsed: 6h31m53s GH/S(5s): 4,948.96 GH/S(avg): 4,563.83
However, on the Eligius stats page it lists Hashrate Average over 3 hours as 2,928.16 Gh/s. I've checked frequently on the antminer interface, and it has had a consistent hashrate in both fields listed above 4,500 GH/s each time I checked.
Why is there such a large disconnect between the average hashrate reported? Are the stats on Eligius just estimating hashrate based on valid shares accepted/submitted and I've simply had bad luck so far? Do I need to run it a bit longer before a more accurate average hashrate is reported?
I had somewhat of the same scenario playing out for a while on my Antminer S5 and it turned out to be related to my network connection. I'm unable to plug my miner directly into a wired internet connection so I was using a wireless bridge.... I honestly don't know the details or the technical explanation as to why communications seemed to be fine on another device behind the same bridge and how the S5 saw completed submissions that didn't seem to be making it to eligius but when I replaced that bridge with one from another company things started working perfectly. Perhaps it has something to do with the way your internet connection is routing to eligius vs other pools.... I unfortunately don't have any answers but maybe this will help point in the right direction.