Quote from: mdude77 on January 18, 2014, 03:03:43 AM

Quote from: iongchun on January 18, 2014, 02:42:34 AM

Quote from: mdude77 on January 18, 2014, 02:20:54 AM

You're comparing with others in p2pool. I'm comparing with non p2pool.

M

You could think in p2pool way.
If your good share rate is higher/lower than others in p2pool,
your average income is higher/lower than others in non-p2pool.
Then take low miner fee, tx fee, p2p, and coinbase tx as pros, and higher variance as cons.

Also, unless things have changed, p2pool can not be reliably run on a home DSL connection. That means folks like myself have to use a public node or suffer higher than normal rejects (and normal is high enough thank you!). That means you have two choices: trust the op of that public node, or get higher rejects. Both negate two supposed benefits of p2pool.

M

The pool I ran for bitcoins averaged ~110-115% efficiency, but that was on a dedicated server (not a VPS) in Germany with 1gbit/1gbit switch (200mbps guaranteed but in practice could 99% of the time get 80MB/s + ). Averaged around 3-5% DOA for me and about 2-4% orphans.

When I initially tried to set up my home connection, I was getting around 0-1% DOA and 15-20% orphans. A few percentage of the orphan rate was from being in the US instead of France/Germany/Netherlands where most of these dedicated servers & VPS are running. Most was from my 768kbps upstream cap.

Later on I was able to set it up w/ 0-1% DOA and an orphan rate under 10% (though it still wasn't as good as just using German remote server, after share time got changed to 30s)... anyway, the deal is, just have bitcoind connect to 1 or 2 servers & also your p2pool node need only connect to a handful of servers... you just have to pick the right ones. I have no clue what those are anymore. (ie, change outgoing connections to 0 and handpick the servers to connect to)

ed: i think you can find a VPS for a couple of bucks to run a bitcoind relay on