Is it possible to add 2 miners on one internet connection? If yes how?
Yes. I do this. I have one miner with a low gain 3bi antenna to cover the immediate area. The second one I have an 8dbi antenna to cover the long range. It’s connected to a small VPN router of my main router using Ivacy vpn service because they allow port forwarding as a service.
You can easily plug both of them into the same router if you don’t care that one of them will be relayed.
You could probably add a router in front of the second AP that routes all traffic trough a VPN so you get a different public IP. You probably need control over the VPN server as well because you need to make sure that the port is forwarded to the Miner.
You don’t even need VPN. Just activate uPnP on your internet router. One Hotspot will use 44158 the other will assign itself another port and also announce it on the P2P network. I have seen quite some Miners that did announce a different port.
What if you are mining just fine with out portforwarding and you get a second miner and create a reservation /portforward the new one. Would it work. Or can I just leave both unforwarded with one internet address
Doesn’t the scale kinda make this…pointless?
How many feet apart are the miners in the house? How is your reward looks like on average per day for each miner?
How many feet apart are the miners in the house? How is your reward looks like on average per day for each miner?
My second miner is a sensecap, I’m a little bit skeptical to install it on the same network with the syncrobit. How many feet apart are your miners in the house? on average per day how does your reward look like per miner?
what about the HNT earing difference between two also witnessed?
Not necessary. Just forward another port to the second miner
If you run through a vpn would you have to show your miner wherever your vpn says you are?
i tryed port forwarding but it not works as you say
Yes it drops the scale slightly depending how many miners in the hex. The the range you can hit with an 8dbi versus a 3dbi is quite significant. So the amount of witnesses I see and the amount of rewards I get vastly outweigh the slight drop in transmit scale.
8dbi will get invalid witness in the immediate area, but the 3dbi will pick those up. And vice versa, the 8dbi will hit witnesses that the 3dbi can’t.
Would be pointless if you had 2 with the same size antennas though.
which other port? i thought helium only works over 44158? is there a backup port or what are you talking about?
PoC doesn’t work by checking the location of your IP but via triangulation of the LoRa Signal Strengths of neighboring hotspots (Like cellphone tracking in the movies). So as long as you receive the hotspots surrounding the location you specified with the appropriate signal strengths of their respective distances, you should be fine.
What are your miners names? I’d like to check this out.
“Would be pointless if you had 2 with the same size antennas though.”
>> I disagree with this logic. There is guy on YT using two miners with the same antenna (see his videos here https://www.youtube.com/c/CryptoMiningTrading/videos) . While your logic in the two antennas is correct you are missing an important fact. On busy areas where most beacons have 18 witnesses you will probably be better sharing the same antenna with the two miners. The reason is that if both miners will pick the beacon then you have double the chance to get a reward from it. In your case with two antennas 8dbi and 3dbi you will most likely see different beacons in each miner so you will only have 1/18th on each, asuming 18 full witnesses. Depending on your location you might be better of with a 5-6 dBi antenna which maximises the beacons you can “hear” and have both miners share the antenna so you can get double the chance of witnessing them. It’s simple statistics, the more lottery tickets you buy the more chances you have to win. So your aim should to maximise the number of beacons you witness, not really making sure they are different beacons between different miners. Note that this logic above ignores the transfer scale. However if you can get better rewards with a higher gain antenna pointing to a specific area then the same logic applies using two miners.
you can forward any external port to 44158 on the miner. libp2p is smart enough to recognize which port is forwarded.
i use 44158->44158 hotspot1 and 44159->44158 hotspot2
Forward 44158 to 44158 on hotspot1 and 44159 to 44158 on hotspot2