Evening All,

I'm after some advise on how I can get my cube to successfully mine on two separate pools, as in the primary/backup function, so if one looses connectivity or times out for any reason, it switches to the other pool.

I am currently mining on Slush's pool and another pool using a windows 7 64bit laptop as a proxy machine and am using mining_proxy.exe in order to do so, if I want to mine on the other pool I just open up the command prompt, navigate to the mining proxy directory and execute the following command
mining_proxy.exe -o (host) -p (port)

My cube is setup with the standard settings with the ports being 8332, 8332, pool address being the IP address of my proxy machine and the username and password of my pool worker credentials.

I have tried to use cgminer and bfg miner on numerous occasions but have been unsuccessful in making them work for me.

Yesterday I downloaded the latest cgminer 3.90 but after entering my pool address:port and leaving the username and password blank and hitting enter, the program would encounter a problem and shutdown, I tried again but this time I populated the username and password fields but I encountered the same problem.

bfg miner seems to get me to a page where I can start tinkering with some settings but always says that no devices were found, once I've managed to get it connected to a pool I think and it said something along the lines of "pool is hiding blocks", or something along those lines.

So now, as proxy miner seems to be the only one working for me, is their any way for me to set it up to achieve my purpose?

Also what does diff 64, 128 and 256 mean? The other pool that I am on offers me various different ports to choose from with the options of diff 64, 128 or 256.

Thanks in advance for your time and help.