Quote from: MickeyT2008 on September 29, 2013, 03:39:05 PM

Quote from: Torn on September 29, 2013, 03:10:39 PM

Quote from: MickeyT2008 on September 29, 2013, 01:51:07 PM

I'm still having trouble with the US server sometimes losing its connection, or taking up to a couple of minutes to accept shares, resulting in all stale shares, the EU pool is unusable because it's behaving in the same way but worse. I also assume that it's not my computers or internet connection causing it because my brother is having the same trouble. The server stays connected but stops working properly, meaning that I have to disconnect and then reconnect, something that I can only do if I'm at the computer and notice it.

I'm not nagging you here, I'm just wondering if you're aware of this issue, it affects your income as well as ours. (We're in the UK by the way, maybe this problem is less noticeable to you if the server is nearby).

Anyway, hopefully you'll be able to sort this out because other than that issue this is my favourite pool so far and I want to be able to stick with it, clearly you've put a lot of work into designing it.

Edit: I've also noticed that both my computers seem to do this together, and because I was chatting on Skype with my brother at the time I found out that his did at the same time too.

Are you using skype on your mining rig? Just curious. Also, have you done a tracert to the server you are connecting to? What does it show if anything? There are several things that can affect your connections so you need to go through them and see where the issue is.
When 875 miners are doing fine w/0 issues and you and brother have a problem then it is highly likely the issue is on your end somewhere. Do a little geekwork and we can probably help you fix whatever it is.

GL.

I'm only using Skype for text chat or occasionally audio, and most of the time it's either doing nothing or not running, besides which it's only running on one of my machines and both are having trouble, but they are sharing their internet connection (60Mbps down/3Mbps up fibre). Other than that I'm running Google Chrome with a few things like Clark Moody's on them, but the other machine is only running GUIMiner-Scrypt. These are the only two machines on my network, there isn't someone else here running uTorrent or anything like that. My neighbours are all elderly so it's unlikely that any of them are downloading through my WiFi, I do run an open WiFi but according to the logs it just gets used occasionally by my one younger neighbour for his iPhone and iPad, most of the time he's out anyway. As for my brother having the same issue at the same time, he lives sixty miles away and uses a different ISP.

I'll run that trace in a bit when I get back from the shops, thanks for your suggestions. Neither my brother nor I can get the EU server to play nicely, if we could then that might sort the problem as it could just be because we're using a server that's half way around the planet from here.

Thanks

Edit: I've just tried the EU server again and now it seems to be working and happily submitting shares, maybe it's been fixed. Hopefully it'll be okay now, I'll see how well it's been running when I get back from my shopping mission in a bit.

Edit: Could running a proxy server on each machine on the same internet connection cause this problem? After I posted the last edit I put my second machine onto the EU server and then it started having the same sort of trouble again. I've just switched one to the US server and the other to the EU server, it's only been five minutes since I did that but so far they seem a lot happier. I'll see if I can set up a single server for them to share when I get back if they're still running okay.

Any chance you're mining XPM??? With a single core CPU it can almost bring it to a halt.
Did recently install a new wallet and you're downloading its blockchain? That slows my PC down to a snail's pace.
What difficulty have you set? I know with Block Erupters a high difficulty is detrimental. But, my GPU miners don't care what difficulty I set.
Open your Task Manager and see what applications and processes are running. I downloaded a shareware ap the other day and it installed this obnoxious PCBackUp that was grinding away in background. Uninstalling it sped my PC back to normal.