Download throughput: Each mining task is 1440 bytes in size, and a new task appears every 15 seconds.
Download throughput: Each share transferred is 140 bytes in size, and a new transfer occurs every 10 seconds.
Thus, the total throughput can be divided into two parts:
- Job Issue: Fixed at 96 bps (calculated as 1440/15).
- Baud rate: 14 bps (calculated as 140/10).
- Total throughput (per miner): (1440 / 15) + (140 / 10) = 110 B/s.
- Monthly traffic (per miner): 110 * 3600 * 24 * 30 = 266976000 B = 272 MB.
- 40 GB per month can be used by: 40 * 1024 / 272 = 150 computers.
- Actual usage may be slightly higher than theoretical value. If the second and third pools are not empty, the actual traffic may be higher (miners may receive jobs from the second and third pools, resulting in increased or even doubled traffic).
Upload Throughput: Each mining task is 1440 bytes in size and a new task spawns every 15 seconds, allowing for a maximum of 5 simultaneous tasks.
Download throughput: Each shared resource transferred is 60 bytes, and a new transfer occurs every 10 seconds.
As a result, the total throughput is divided into two segments:
- Job Output: This aspect remains fixed at 480 Bit/s (calculated as 1440 / 15 * 5).
- In a month: 480 * 3600 * 24 * 30 = 1244160000 B = 1.2 GB
- Share transfer: at a rate of 6 B/s (calculated as 60/10).
- In a month: 6 * 3600 * 24 * 30 = 15552000 B = 15 MB
- When using 40 GB, about 2648 computers can be supported: (40 – 1.2) * 1024 / 15.
- (This greatly reduces the need to connect two Windows systems.)
- If N instances of BTCAgent are running, the number of machines for a given amount of traffic can be calculated as follows: (40 – 1.2 * N) * 1024/15.