Thanks, I'm on the west coast so I will keep using us1.  I am having a few other issues here, maybe you all can help.

Firstly, I am seeing fairly regular "Stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted" and "Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart".  Why all the work restarts all the time?

After about 24 hours on this pool I've noticed my usb sticks do not seem to be performing like the have previously.  One of my gekko compacs constantly gets "no valid hashes for over 10 secs, attempting to reset" and it only hashes at about 1/3 speed of what it should be.  4 of my 6 nanofury sticks are down about 20% in hash speed also.  The worker page on the website constantly shows my miners at 0 hash rate even though they are hashing away, often when I refresh some of the 0s will get replaced with a hash value, but then another miner might show 0.  I think this is all related to the min. difficulty of 64 on small miners that do 2GH-14GH each, but I'm not sure.

I added the easy mode perk for low difficulty and set appropriate difficulties under each worker in the field "minimum difficulty".  I waited for a while (website said it could take 20 mins) then restarted my miners but they do not seem to be mining at the reduced difficulty that I set, did I do something wrong?

I would like to give this pool a shot but if I can't get my miners to cooperate here I'm going to have to move them back to kano.is.  Thanks in advance.