Quote from: gyverlb on January 18, 2014, 11:47:44 PM

Quote from: mdude77 on January 18, 2014, 10:47:15 PM

EDIT: I guess my point is p2pool isn't for everyone. True supporters of the p2pool concept acknowledge that. The rest treat p2pool as a religion, as from their perspective, anyone who has a problem must not have their settings right or not understand the system.

Given that p2pool can be configured to use less than 20KB/s and bitcoind tuned to use even less, people with DSL should all be able to use p2pool. The only ways someone can't use p2pool on a link that provides at least 512kbps in both directions I can think of are:

not knowing how to configure p2pool and bitcoind for low bandwidth,
not knowing how or being able to use QoS to give priority to p2pool and bitcoind,
needing the bandwidth for something else,
unreliable connectivity

I've never seen anyone say good things about QoS. In fact, I've seen lots of people say turn it off, it hoses things, and I've seen it here in this thread.

Who doesn't use the bandwidth for anything else?

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On a related subject variance importance is often blown out of proportions and people willingly choose pools that pay between 3 and 5% less monthly because p2pool pays less nearly one day out of two. This behavior is not limited to pool choice: many forfeit long term gains for short term gains in most domains.

See my prior post. What's your 12 day comparison? I realize it's probably too short, but I'd like to see. We can compare again in 18 days.

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