Our closed Beta testing has started and we already made some improvements with our new service Stratu.ms. We will soon open registrations for the public Beta and in the meantime, we have introduced a new tool that will allow you to check the latency between your farm location and Stratu.ms and between the Stratu.ms and the pool on which you want to mine. The faster the sum of latencies of these two connections is, the better.
About Latency check
Latency check is a simple tool to which you only need to enter the pool’s stratum address and you are ready to test.
The test usually takes up to 30 seconds and once it is finished, you will be able to see the results for each Stratu.ms location available.
- The first column will show you the order number of the location.
- The second column will show you the location of our stratums.
- The third column is the latency between your location and our stratum.
- The fourth column is the latency between our stratum and your pool.
- The last column is the sum of both latencies. It is the amount of time that will be needed to redirect the hashrate from your location to the pool.
Note that some pools are greatly optimized so the connection via Stratu.ms won’t significantly improve your latency. However, there are cases where some pools aren’t even reachable from some locations or when the latency is really large and this results in more rejected or stale shares.
Such situations depend on where you are located and where the pool is located. Our testings showed that the connections from central Europe to the pools in east Asia are significantly improved. On the other hand, the connections from central Europe to the pools in Europe or the USA are comparable to the direct connection.
You can repeat the test for as many pools as you like, but if you later want to compare the results, we suggest writing them down.
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