How to choose your server region
Why the closest region wins, what latency really affects in mining, and what to do when your ISP or country blocks mining domains.
Closest is best
Servers span Europe, the Americas and Asia, and the How to Mine guide pings them from your browser and auto-selects the lowest-latency region for you. A shorter round trip means new jobs reach your rig sooner and your shares reach the pool sooner.
What latency actually affects
Latency does not change how fast your GPU computes: your hashrate is produced locally either way. What high latency raises is the share of your work that arrives late, called stale shares, because the job changed while your result was still travelling. Picking the closest region keeps stale shares to a minimum, which is what protects your effective earnings.
Blocked ISPs and countries
In some regions, such as Russia and China, ISPs and governments block mining or the pool's domain. For exactly this case the guide offers alternative connection routes and a proxy option. If your connection suddenly stops working, come back to the How to Mine page, pick the proxy or alternate route closest to you again, and update your miner with its latest connection details.
Configure a backup
Most miners accept more than one pool entry and fail over automatically. Add a second region as your backup so a maintenance window or a network hiccup never leaves your rig idle.