Re: Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v9.5 (Windows/Linux)

Has anyone experienced claymore destroying your wifi connection?

Without claymore running I can ping my gateway all <50ms. As soon as claymore starts mining the connection seems to be wrecked. Pings drop and claymore cannot access the network. Some pings get through but very few and with huge delays (3000 ms).

The only solution I've seen people talk about is hardwiring. I've noticed it only happens with my new router and my rig on the old router works. However I cannot reach the old router from where I want the new rig.

I did find a way out of this, it looks like is some kind of interference of the GPUs working, Claymore does not have anything to do with this.
Had a free PCIe slot, have a PCIe wifi adapter, if I install it right on the slot the connection would be there but the system keep drooping shares, so I installed a raiser in order to get the wifi adapter far from the rig, now it works wonderfully

Just my 2 cents

wow, if this is the answer, I'll be so happy. I am using windows 10 and a usb wifi chip. I'll get a small hub and see if I can put the wifi card further away. Last night when I tried the usb wifi was sitting right under the GPUs. I was suspicious of interference, but didn't think too hard about it.

Now that I think about it, an USB cable extension should be enough too, gonna buy me a few of those to find out

This solved my issue! I still have router communication problems, but at least the rigs can talk!

Much appreciated!

Ok, I'll admit that I thought you guys were crazy when you first brought this subject up but today I set my cell phone next to one of my rigs while I was working in the area. After a while I picked it up to check it and it was registering no service. Didn't give it much thought and rebooted it just to make sure it wasn't messed up (it's an older android). Later in the day I set it back down again in the same spot and a couple hours later I grabbed it and once again no service.

So there is something to the interference claim. However, I don't think it is Claymore's problem. He may have contributed to it by pushing the cards harder but, hey, isn't that what we want anyway? If I were to guess I would imagine that the interference is from the cards being pushed hard and the fact that most of us are running open air chassis, there is no metal 'faraday cage' to shield the interference from being a problem like there would be if the GPU was in a normal computer case.