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.
Have the same problem for 2-3 days now. cgminer crashes often using this pool. It ran for weeks without any problems before.
I'm still having the same problems, those things I just tried didn't work. Between you, my brother and I that's three of us having problems so maybe it's nothing to do with my configs, I've not had this problem on any other pools and both machines have happily worked together with a proxy server each before.
I only joined this pool three days ago so I can't refer back to how it was before then
Edit: The problem seems to be intermittent, one thing I did wonder about was the high popularity of this pool and the speed of the server which is hosting it or its internet connection, things which of course are beyond my control and which I have no information about.
There was an issue with one of the FTC pool servers that I have just corrected. Let me know if your situation improves. It's looking like I'm going to have to add a 4th US pool server to maintain N+1 redundancy as two servers are not able to fully handle the load when one goes down.