Still having occasionally comunication failures and plenty of Pool not providing work fast enough. The very annoying thing is that is never bad enough for cgminer to consider the backup pool but bad enough for hashrate to drop (failover strategies).
Load balance strategy seems to always favour the backup pool even when CoinLab is doing OK, so no.
Balance strategy works, but with a hashrate often significantly reduced (70-50%), so no again.
The site is also sometimes unreachable.
NO, I do not have any net/software/hardware problems.
Any ETA on EU servers?
I have had same experience with comm failures, pool not providing work fast enough, etc. What is the bottleneck for this, bandwidth? Server power on their side? I'm not that far geographically from them so that's not it. I also don't get these errors on other pools that are much farther away.