Re: [4300 TH] BTC Guild - Pays TxFees+Orphan+NMC, Stratum, Private Servers
Just a general question. Does ping time have any bearing on the effectiveness of mining in a pool? I'm on the opposite side of the planet, so have a ping of circa 260 ms. Are there any noticeable disadvantages to this? Not that i can do a whole lot about it, but curious none the less. 
I would expect latency to have an impact primarily in two areas: 1) The time taken to initially start mining
2) Quantity of stale shares submitted
The first point should hopefully be obvious (can't start mining until you have some work from the pool); the second actually stems from the same point, if the pool needs to send you a new work template, the window for stale shares is exactly how long it takes for you to receive the new work template and switch to it.