Quote from: ghedipunk on September 30, 2013, 09:13:16 PM

Quote from: dlasher on September 30, 2013, 06:07:15 PM

Is there any sort of "front end" that you can connect to by name, that finds the fastest/closest p2pool server to you?

The p2pool server daemon itself sort-of does this already, since it connects to multiple other nodes. Having a node in your own network is the lowest latency solution for the vast majority of people, and even if a front end existed that would find the lowest latency public p2pool node for you, it would take about as much work to set up and maintain as the actual p2pool daemon takes.

I could see a use for this, though, if you couldn't guarantee the availability of your p2pool node even within your own network and didn't want to statically assign a list of backup nodes into your miner. Still, it's one more point of failure, unnecessary complexity, and you'd still better have a static list in case your auto-connect front end fails.

well, first off, to OP: fastest =/ closest

well-connected european nodes will have less orphans than nodes in western hemisphere

when I was running a local node, I had an i7-960, 24GB RAM, had the whole bitcoin blockchain stored in RAM, getblocktemplate latency <1ms, but it still performed worse than either of my european servers because of orphan rate

probably not so bad now that shares are farther apart