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Netstat on the machine don't lie about how many times you are trying to connect. Your in and out of dev mode and the callbacks to your server is telling the miner what mode to mine in. More or less the firmware is dependent on the ability to reach your servers and if it don't then it stops mining and the user lost some shares. I ran for hours and it would only mine if it connected to your server at bootup it never went into a bypass mode. Not a smear just the facts about your release.