G5118-1600W 240V

I bought four brand new from factory with my S11's.  One was DOA.  I replaced with a Bitman power supply from Amazon to get the miner up and mining quickly.

Hopefully an easy question:

On the Dashboard and Miner tabs it shows the revenue and profit per day per miner.  However, the values are based on the 5s hashrate instead of the Avg.  So, the values wildly vary.  Is there anyway to change it to use the Avg hashrate value instead of the 5s ?

Thanks!

I have not noticed any appreciable change in hashrate.  The only difference I have seen so far is that the auto-adjusting fan speed is now higher.  Before my fans were running at like 45%, now they're running at 75%.  So, I guess you could say slightly higher power usage in return for keeping the chips a couple degrees cooler which theoretically might help with long-term reliability.   BTW, I run mine in performance mode, so your results may differ if you run yours in one of the other modes available.

Heads up S11 owners - new firmware available today on Innosilicon's support site

And just to drive that point home even further, the S11 when I received in April were earning something like $50 a day in profit.  Today they're making about $8 in profit.  So, what originally would have been about 4-month ROI has now disintegrated into a harsh reality that I will likely never break even.  I knew full well going in that mining revenue would decline over time, but the market was instantly flooded with too much hardware and total hashrate tripled in about 6 weeks.  The fact the S11 now sells for less than half what I paid 8 weeks ago just shows you how much profit they're making on selling these units.

Add to that the overall decline in cryptocurrencies in general, and things are grim.  Only thing I can do now is mine while I still exceed electricity costs, and HODL hoping the value of the coin will rebound down the road so I can recoup my initial investment.  The only bright side is that profitability for the competing Bitmain A3 ASIC has gone negative so many of them are getting shut down by their owners and the total hashrate has started dropping the last few days.

I never see release notes for firmware, but this is what I have noticed so far:
Branding/Logo changed from DragonMint to Innosilicon
New Miner Logs option under Maintenance shows realtime data
I don't see any option to change fan speed, but mine appears to have lowered itself from 100 to 70, maybe that's part of auto tuning now I don't know
Latest Firmware check button now clocks forever instead of incorrectly showing installed version was current when it was not
Reported hash rate on status page has changed.  Seems to now show the natural variation in hashrate instead of the steady value it had before.  Below are comparisons between two of my miners.


https://i.imgur.com/wld7CbK.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/uCsa9Cj.jpg

I'm no expert but I'll at least try to suggest a few things.  My apologies if you've already tried some or all of these.

Make sure you're configured to use a stratum connection in the URL for the pool you're connecting to.  Older TCP setups are not as efficient as stratum.

I assume you're hard-wired and not trying to do a wireless (or cellular) connection between miners and internet - if not, try hard-wire.

You can also quickly eliminate your network hardware and ISP by trying a miner at some other location - friend/relatives house for a couple hours and see if things are different.

If you have a puma-chipset cablemodem, replace it.  There was a thread somewhere here I thought that talked about the latency issues causing trouble with some ASICS.  https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/09/intel_puma_modem_woes/

Temporarily remove whatever networking hardware you have in between your ASIC and the router, to eliminate any issues they might cause.

Most pools have more than one farm you can connect to (east coast, west coast, europe, etc).  Most people would assume the closest geographical site is the best, but that's not always the case depending on the peering agreements your ISP has - try a different one to see if you have different results.

I know you mentioned siamining, luxor, and f2pool.  Might be worth trying Nicehash to see if you get the same rejection rate.  I feel NiceHash doesn't pay as well, but if you get better hashrate there it might offset what you'd be losing.

NiceHash also has a tutorial on their website for setting up a stratum proxy on your PC.  I tinkered with that back when I had Innosilicon A4 Scrypt miners.  I don't know if it will work with Sia, but might be worth tinkering with.

I hope the best for you, I know it can be painful to spend this kind of money on hardware and not get the full value from it.

Attention S11 miners:  The Luxor pool has just switched from PPLNS to PPS. Fee is 2%.  That makes it the lowest-cost PPS pool for Sia available, and PPS now gives you payout consistency without need for ramp-up.

Also, if you've had issues with your pool-side hashrate not being what you expect, give Luxor a try.  I've had perfect rates at Luxor using the newest firmware.  There are lots of variables that can affect your hashrates - internet connection latency, etc, but I've found in the past with other mining hardware that my hashrate poolside can vary greatly between pools, so it's best to try several to find a good fit for you.

I just updated my four.  They fixed the continuous autotune bug.  Have not spotted any other differences yet.  My pool-side hashrate has been fine, so I can't say if it will help those complaining about that.

Noticed something odd.  Was checking my Luxor stats page and it appears the hashrate is slowly increasing over the last few days

http://mining.luxor.tech/miners/SC/8110422ebe4927b4e60837c820e455071171554e68b28ec7cc5204f91ce770fa2beebc351fd3

Have any other S11 owners noticed their hashrates increasing like this?

I don't know if this is something to do with the pool itself, or if it has something to do with the latest firmware and the fact the autotune feature never stops running.  I'm going to have to pay close attention to temps to make sure it doesn't cause a problem.

Also, on a different note - batch 2 was supposed to start shipping yesterday so chime in if you're a Batch 2 buyer and if you've received tracking numbers yet - just curious if that will go smoother than batch 1 did for some people.

https://siastats.info/mining_pools

Nanopool has only hit those 2 blocks in the last week.  Only 9 in the last month.  I'm glad you've had good luck lately and hope it continues for you, but if you change your mind that link above might help you find another pool.

I think the problems with Nicehash were only with the D9.  I pointed one of my S11s at Nicehash for 1.5 hour and it was working.  However, the pool-side reported hashrate seemed lower.  In my mind, that sorta offset the convenience of being paid in bitcoin.

I have my S11s pointed at Luxor.  The list of pools for Siacoin is short, so you don't have a lot to pick from in reality

https://siastats.info/mining_pools

The advantage of SiaMining is that it's a PPS system, which means you accumulate siacoin for every minute they're mining, even when the pool doesn't hit a block.  The downside is the 3% fee.
Luxor is a PPLNS system, which means you only get paid when the pool hits a block.  So, you could go many hours with no payout at all, then get a large chunk payout when the pool hits a block.  Over time it should all even out statistically, and Luxor currently is 0% fee according to their website.
The other note about Luxor PPLNS is that there is a 24-hour ramp-up to prevent pool hopping, so your payouts in that first day will be less than usual as you build up your participation in the sharechain.

The firmware update available from Innosilicon's website is identical to the one available from Halong.  The update does make the interface better.  I did not do any performance comparison to see if it hashes faster or anything like that between the stock firmware and this update.  One bug I've found so far is that the "autotune" for performance never ends.  Doesn't seem to affect things tho.

PS C:\firmware> get-filehash *.swu

Algorithm       Hash                                                                   Path                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
---------       ----                                                                   ----                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
SHA256          A8A2250C1EBF040C40772390C3F698416B03F461E2C397DDD70090110EEA9FFC       C:\firmware\b52_20180428_063624.swu                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
SHA256          A8A2250C1EBF040C40772390C3F698416B03F461E2C397DDD70090110EEA9FFC       C:\firmware\S11_20180428_063624.swu                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

It drops off a lot at 4/9, so my thought was that was probably the first batch of B52's that Halong Mining sent out (keep in mind all these miners are just rebadged DragonMint miners), they tested them for 5 days before sending them out to buyers.

Btw, something interesting to discuss:

When I received my S11s, they were already configured to mine to SiaMining, and to this wallet:
25865daf640696361b432bd517b812270d8459af48f13876108354ee7e028e0e15c13ab5030c

You can actually look at the stats for that wallet:
https://siamining.com/addresses/25865daf640696361b432bd517b812270d8459af48f13876108354ee7e028e0e15c13ab5030c

Something I thought we might talk about is the peak hashrate.  The tallest I see on that chart is the 29th, which might have been when they were testing batch 1 units just prior to shipment.  That peak is 977TH.  If we conservatively estimate each S11 at about 3.4Th pool-side reported hashrate, that is roughly 287 units.  So, it would be reasonable to think that might have been what the Batch 1 size was - maybe closer to 250 since there are still units online and mining (most combined under the worker1 moniker).  There seems to be a steady baseline of about 70-80Th, so maybe they have 25 or so that are online all the time.  There's also some peaks around May 2nd and 3rd which could have been when they got back from the holiday and had to test/ship more of them.

Another interesting item of note is the all-time payout to that wallet at the bottom is 52,075,518.06 SC.  At today's SC price, that's about $1.4 million dollars worth of SC.  If they held all that and sold it today, it would account for only about 4% of today's SC transaction volume (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/siacoin/#markets)
So, it doesn't appear they have a warehouse full of these mining anywhere, unless it's being done to a different wallet.  I know it's a common assumption that these companies have hardware online for "months" before shipping to us, but it doesn't appear to be the case here.

Oh, and if anyone is following my posts, I mentioned that 1 of my 4 were not working, ends up it was the power supply, not the miner.  Thankful that's all it was, but it wasn't immediately apparent to me since the control board was working fine and I could access the interface and everything - it just kept restarting.  I guess the power supply wasn't providing enough juice to run the hash boards.  Support was responsive to all my emails during troubleshooting, no complaints there at all.

Best of luck to everyone else, I hope you get your units soon!

One of my 4 is not working, but the other 3 are humming along nicely.

Roughly 22 hours in the Luxor pool and already 6710 SC mined which is roughly $193 in revenue.  And from what I understand about PPLNS pools like Luxor, there is a "ramp up" period in the sharechain so you don't get full rewards until after 24 hours in the pool to prevent pool hopping so it's possible to earn even more if the pool is lucky on finding blocks.  It's always a trade-off against PPS pools like siamining - those pools have more steady income.  Not sure I'll stay at Luxor or not but liking it so far, good timing I guess!

Here's a link below if anyone is curious and was thinking of pointing their S11 at Luxor.  Btw, Luxor is currently 0% fees for SC, compared to 3% at siamining.  That may not sound like much but that is almost two hundred bucks a month if you have 4 of these, it adds up quick!

http://mining.luxor.tech/miners/SC/8110422ebe4927b4e60837c820e455071171554e68b28ec7cc5204f91ce770fa2beebc351fd3

Mine was released through customs with no issue, but the link in the text I got did say that I owe $62.82 for import duty/tax at pickup.  I was pleased with that amount, was afraid it was going to be several hundred for a $15K order of four S11s with power supplies.   Earlier this year I sent one A4 to Canada and the buyer had to pay more than that, so I am thankful this is inexpensive.

Ordered on 4/23, paid via bank wire a couple hours after
Received payment confirmation on 4/26
Tracking number on 4/29
DHL detail says my miners are already in Cincinnatti and released by customs
Should be availble for me to pickup from my local hub on 5/3

So yes, those who ordered early and managed to get payment confirmation early are getting theirs soon

Just ordered four of the S11 today with power supplies - I'm excited!  I had no issues with the website order, and just emailed the bank transfer receipt.

I had good success with my previous Dominator A4 units while I had them, looking forward to having new mining hardware 

Thank You Innosilicon

If just looking at per-day revenue, Baikal holds the top 3 spots on NiceHash's calculator:

Baikal Giant B per day = $28
Baikal Giant X10 per day = $19
Baikal Giant+ per day = $13

The Bitmain A3 is doing decent at the moment too I read, but the outlook on that one is probably not great.

I guess it all depends on how cheaply you can pick up the ASIC.  If someone is panic selling you might get a great deal and make a few bucks.  Those Baikal's are super expensive currently, so ROI doesn't look juicy.