why does ping matter when mining?
so found out that im getting an average of 336ms when i ping - stratum.kano.is for the past couple days since i joined the pool on thursday.
pinged the rest of the servers and found that the de and nl is best for me, with the nl being best server for me at 211ms
so in my antminer "miner configeration" would i essential copy and paste it like this - stratum+tcp://nl.kano.is:3333
and for pool 2 stratum+tcp://nl.kano.is:80 etc..
Is this correct?
The ping tells you how long it takes for the work from your miners to reach the node. The longer the time, the greater the chance that your work could be stale by the time it reaches the node.
You don't want to put a different port of the same node as your pool 2. Instead, put the next node with 2nd lowest ping time. That way in case the node fails for some reason, you are still mining on the pool.
Edit 336ms seems really high for GA to CA. Did you try NYA? It would be the closest physically to your location. When I ping SG (Singapore) from Seattle, I only get 209ms