Quote from: cheat_2_win on February 01, 2012, 03:21:32 PM

Finally, I have moved all of my 500 MH/s to P2pool from deepbit. It feels good.

I've been mining on P2P with 760MHs for four days now, but I'm mining just one third, more or less, of what I was getting when I was on a PPS pool.

I do understand that there is variance, but now I need a day where I mine 8 times as much just to be on par with my previous PPS payout.

I don't think I'll see such a day soon, though.

Then rounds, they should last 10 seconds, but they're often a lot faster, see:

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[2012-02-01 18:44:50] LONGPOLL requested work restart, waiting on fresh work
[2012-02-01 18:44:52] LONGPOLL requested work restart, waiting on fresh work
[2012-02-01 18:44:54] LONGPOLL requested work restart, waiting on fresh work
[2012-02-01 18:45:05] LONGPOLL requested work restart, waiting on fresh work
[2012-02-01 18:45:10] LONGPOLL requested work restart, waiting on fresh work
[2012-02-01 18:45:29] LONGPOLL requested work restart, waiting on fresh work
[2012-02-01 18:45:34] LONGPOLL requested work restart, waiting on fresh work
[2012-02-01 18:45:48] LONGPOLL requested work restart, waiting on fresh work
[2012-02-01 18:45:52] LONGPOLL requested work restart, waiting on fresh work
[2012-02-01 18:45:55] LONGPOLL requested work restart, waiting on fresh work
[2012-02-01 18:45:59] LONGPOLL requested work restart, waiting on fresh work
[2012-02-01 18:46:11] LONGPOLL requested work restart, waiting on fresh work
[2012-02-01 18:46:14] LONGPOLL requested work restart, waiting on fresh work
[2012-02-01 18:46:23] LONGPOLL requested work restart, waiting on fresh work
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[2012-02-01 18:46:40] LONGPOLL requested work restart, waiting on fresh work

here we have 2, 2, 9, 5, 19, 5, 14, 4, 3, 4, 12, 3, 9, 10, 7 seconds rounds, there are a lot of 2 and 3 seconds long rounds.

I see that a few months ago rounds went from 5 to 10 seconds, so I'm asking wouldn't it be better to have 1 minute long rounds?

Can fast rounds give high MHs miners an advantage since they can exhaust the nonce range even in a very short round?

I'll keep my miner on P2P for a few more days, but if rewards keep being so scarce I'll have go back to a PPS pool or otherwise I feel like I'm just wasting power Sad

regards.

spiccioli.