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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Wifi vs wired internet for the rig
by
Psynthax
on 28/05/2019, 23:20:02 UTC
My current rigs are all using wired connection through wifi adapter. I am planning to move to use usb wifi adapter. The reason is to make rig more compact. Any suggestions from the community. My worry is that wifi connection may not be good due to proximity of GPUs. Any recommendation for the USB wifi adapter would be appreciated. Thank you.

My farm consist of 10x 12GPU rigs. I started off with Wifi usb adaptors but as the farm grew I started having endless problems with it. When the rigs are in idle state the network was fine but as soon it`s start mining I had latency, signal drop and re-connection problems all round. I didn't even use 1mbps combined on the wifi. I guess firing up the GPU`s have some kind of impact on interference (even mounted on the roof for better line of sight)

I do however have one or two test rigs running on dongles but I dont monitor them 24/7 to check if there any disconnects.

I recommend for stability stick with wire.
My rigs are in different parts of apartment and therefore using Wired is not possible. I had to use wifi extender and connect rig to that extender using wired connection. It works usually but still wanted to find out option of removing the extender.
Thanks everyone for help.
But wired internet still the best for me. I used two kinds of internet(WIFI and Wired connection) in my house for my mining rig
I used 100Mbps WIFI for my mining rig that used wifi adapter because i just focus to get the best latency. Whatever how much bandwith is not so important as long as i can get the best latency for my rigs.No doubt wired will always give you best latency but about WIFI and that needs more effort to do that. I just use Xiaomi Mi Wifi USB dongle maybe it's not so good but it's not bad at all.