Problem is p2pool is virtually unusable at this level with little guys like me. 12gh/s and estimated time to share is 18.6hours.

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There is good news: The hashrate of the pool is dropping again. You'll get more shares more often.
However, there seems to be some bad news: The hashrate of the pool is dropping again. There won't be as many blocks found as often.
One year ago it was supposed that p2pool had to be split at around 1 TH/s , today it was at 60!
spiccioli
ps. btw, you can always move to
HHTT which needs hashers and where you can set your difficulty to a much lower level.