Couple of node questions guys:
1) I'm in south eastern Australia: which node should I be pointing to?
2) Why? as in does it matter?
I'd point it to Kano house, he's the closest to you and you would get sub 10ms latency.

Ping each node and see whats best, but I think the main kano.is will give you the best response.
I'm using
stratum+tcp://stratum.kano.is:3333 at the moment, is that what you mean by kano house?
And forgive the ignorance, but how do I ping the nodes?
Crash