I wonder whats the reason for that. Maybe asicminer is too poorly connected to other wallets? I mean a miner that is connected to as many wallets as possible and those wallets are again connected to as many miners as possible should have an advantage against a miner that is poorly connected because the block that is accepted by most miners wins. When i understand it correctly. So i only see that as an explaination. I doubt a internet connection can be that bad to have such a big effect.
We've seen AM's "data center", so who knows what ISPs were chosen. Running services out of mainland china is not as simple as you'd think:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99497.msg2733783#msg2733783The latency might be not the best... but still... it shouldnt be way more than 1 or 2 seconds... and i guess informing >50% of the bitcoin network of a new found block takes way longer than a couple seconds. Or am i wrong? Anyway... if a miner is able to connect to thousands of wallets he would raise the propagationspeed very much. No other miner could propagate faster with a block found a second after Asicminer. Thats something friedcat maybe should look into.