Is there any way to specify the starting diff?

I am running old ASICs that get about 3.5Gh/s and it takes a couple of days to get a pair of shares over 10K.  I think you need 2 of them before it will adjust the diff down.

Yes I know accepted shares are just something to let me know it is working.

After it gets there, I think it adjusts the diff too low. It gets adjusted down to something like 3. Just getting it to 100 or so would allow an accepted share every few minutes.

Mark