Quote from: uski on October 10, 2013, 03:42:10 PM

Quote from: WastedLTC on October 10, 2013, 03:29:30 PM

I have a feeling the setup is different so they can manage all the units and through that routing something is messed up. All we can do is wait.

If you look into the strings in the firmware, there's the name for the unit depending on the number of ASICs :
0 ASICs: 0_The_Headless_Horseman
1 ASICs: Mercury
2 ASICs: Saturn
3 ASICs: 3_Cerberus
4 ASICs: Jupiter
5 ASICs: 5_Five_Headed_Monkey
6 ASICs: 6_Hosted_Max_Speed

The name of the 6 ASICs miner makes me think (pure speculation) that they actually host miners with 6 ASICs and, using a modified cgminer, they distribute the hashing power depending on what "miner" the customer bought initially. When you ask to get "your" miner out of the hosting, they just send you a miner with the correct number of ASICs (pure speculation again).

That would make sense : more uptime for the customers (no problem if just one miner goes down), less costs for KnC (less controller boards), easier to manage for KnC (just run a huge "cloud" mining farm and distribute the hashing power through software only, it's much more flexible).

It would also explain why they have a "private pool" which is actually their way to redistribute the earnings.

I could be all wrong... or totally right

Nice catch, and excellent theory.