Excellent But stick to port 8080 but don't use 3333

The reason to use tcping, is to compare the different nodes to work out which is closest.
But don't take too much notice of the actual numbers it returns vs a normal ping

It needs to be "W:127.0.0.1,W:IP" (without the quotes)

Where IP is your IP address looking at the miner.

You can't get rid of W:127.0.0.1 otherwise, as you've seen, the miner will keep restarting coz it can't talk to my cgminer API.
i.e. both the miner linux and AM needs to be able to talk to the API, removing the W:127.0.0.1 is why it keeps restarting.

Some light reading
https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer/blob/master/API-README

OK probably ping stratum.kano.is and compare to nya.kano.is
If they are about the same, then use stratum.kano.is as your first pool and that should reduce the stales a little.

Otherwise, 0.334% isn't all that bad.
Not being close to any of the nodes will make it a little higher, but that's OK.
Also, the Hi shares will probably not get any more since they usually happen when you first connect, and Hi don't matter.
So you should see the 0.334% go down a little over time.

Colocation maybe??? I know alot are full, but you just might find an open spot.

My take on a post from Kano a long while back:

The 5Nd "ramp" means it takes that long to reward your shares.  It's not a punishment and The ramp isn't missing rewards, it's delaying them to reduce variance.  Each share is rewarded in all the blocks found in the 5Nd after the share.  That's simply how it reduces variance. Each share's reward is averaged out over the 5Nd after it.

How do the PPLNS payments work?

The 5Nd means the pool rewards 5 times the expected number of shares each time a block is found.  So each share will be paid approximately 1/5 of it's expected value in each block it gets a reward, but each share is also expected, on average, to be rewarded 5 times in blocks found after the share is submitted to the pool.

So, on the 1st block the pool hits when you start on Kano you get rewarded 1/5 of the value of the shares you submitted for that block.  On the 2nd block the pool hits you get 1/5 of the value of the shares you submitted for the 2nd block plus 1/5 of the value of the shares you submitted for the 1st block.  On the 3rd block the pool hits you get 1/5 of the value of the shares you submitted for the 3rd block plus 1/5 of the value of the shares you submitted for the 2nd block plus 1/5 of the value of the shares you submitted for the 1st block and on and on like that until all of the value of the shares are paid.  That's also how you would continue to get payouts for the 5Nd ramp down period after you leave this pool.

This is a simplistic view of 5Nd because it is also affected by luck.  If pool luck was always 100% then each share is expected to be rewarded 5 times.
If pool luck is better than 100%, then the average share reward will be better than 5 times. (Love it when it hits 10-12 times!)
If pool luck is worse than 100%, then the average share reward will be less than 5 times.

The 5Nd really helps you out if your miners go down for a couple of hours or are down for a day.  You would continue to be rewarded if the pool hit a block while you were down.  I've seen pools where you would get nothing out of a block if you were down for just an hour or so when the block was hit.

Well there's 3 things.

Firstly, no we don't expect to ever get a 600% block.
Though they should average, over a large number of blocks (10's or 100's of thousands), to be 1 in about 400.
We expect 100%, but luck and expectation are two completely different things

Secondly, if you have ramped up, your next payout would match your expected reward per block.

Thirdly, if you do end up leaving, you'll still get (diminishing) rewards in any blocks found in the 5Nd after you leave.

it's a business........

i paid my dues, i'm tired of dealing with clients and lawyers day in, day out. crypto is a lot more fun............

Technically, because you reported the fault before 180 days, you should still have the right for warranty.
You have no influence for they to answer late, so it is only right that you get your warranty repair.

No, I am an electrician and charge 120 an hour, thats way to much.

If anyones interested got my initial video review of the baikaminer giant b up w/ an overview some options to mine a couple 1 hour profit projection mining tests

https://youtu.be/fB33Om_WON0

Thanks, yeah the problem with that, where I'm based (Ireland), the quickest I can get a 1600W psu delivered from Amazon.co.uk is about 1 week. I can't find any suitable psu that I can pick up locally quickly