I'm connecting to the interwebs through a VPN (currently checking out Nord) and for security reasons, I won't connect without one.  I've successfully mined a few £££ via NiceHash using DaggerHashimoto (Excavator v1.6.2a).  However, when using T-Rex or GMiner to mine ETH via the ethermine pool, I can't connect.  GMiner says "Failed: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it" then "All user mining pools are unavailable" then "Miner terminated, watchdog will restart process after 10 seconds".  T-Rex just says "ERROR: No connection, retry after 10 seconds".

I'm not sure why NiceHash can connect with no issues.  Interestingly, I tried the default beam, etc, eth, and eth+zil bat files from the GMiner 2.44 zip and I can connect to beam and eth+zil, but not etc and eth.  I tried both Ethermine (eu1.ethermine.org) and MiningPoolHub (europe.ethash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:20535) pools in GMiner with no luck.  Help!