Woot, My cgminer has now been running for 6h 41m 50s without even so much as a cgminer restart.
Senseless: Sorry for your troubles and these neophyte questions, trying to understand... you are recommending using the ethernet port, but not the wifi?
You suggest that perhaps the TPLink adapter drawing enough power to run both ethernet and wifi, concurrently, might have damaged the chip?
To use ethernet port, is there anything involved besides setting a static IP, other than 192.168.0.100; so you know how to access the web interface?
Correct, just disable the Wifi but leave ethernet in-tact. Wifi is really the only thing you can disable to reduce power.
Yes, that is my current thought that the damage from my chip resulted from the tp-link drawing to much power.
There is nothing else to it other than what you describe.
I think one can just power TP-LINK from PSU via micro-USB connector on it leaving Wi-Fi operating. For many users Wi-Fi is a critical option while running the miner.