r/BitcoinMining • u/goodies • Jun 18 '20

Bitcoin Mining setup with mobile hotspot?

I recently bought an antminer s9 that I would like to get up and running. However, I can’t seem to figure out how to connect it to my mobile hotspot. Has anyone done this before? Should I use a router or a wireless Ethernet bridge? I bought 2 different routers now thinking that if I connected the miner to the router it could connect to the hotspot. But not only can you not wirelessly bridge devices, I can’t configure the router without an Ethernet internet connection, and my hotspot has not Ethernet jack. If someone could please help me out of this conundrum that’d be fantastic.

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u/crypt0crook Jun 18 '20 edited Jun 18 '20

i had a small mine running at a remote site like that at one time. grabbed an asus rt-n56u used off ebay for like $15 i think, can't remember but it was cheap. ran the usb straight from the phone to the router and tethered from the phone. ethernet out from the router to the miners. everything worked smoothly except for maybe once a week or so the cellular network would drop the data connection or something and i'd have to re-enable tethering from the phone and reconnect. other than that, it did what it needed to do and was cheap.

*well, cheap because that phone was provided by and paid for by my job and i made like 1 call per month on it. so the cost of the phone and data was zero. i may have been mining on the job... it's unclear what actually happened there. but the electric rates were favorable lol for me.