thought I had this figured out and maybe I do, because my work with my other rig is not showing on other end tonight. but as of right now i have some kind of error since the readout for all 16 chips is the same showing no dupes for some reason all nonce counts are at zero I'm going to restart everything and see if it doesn't clear up. if not I will come back tomorrow and seek help. I found out why counts were zero somehow i turned off power supply seems to be working for now.
OK I figured out two or three mistakes that seem to be easy to make,
1. make sure if things aren't working right that all power switches are in correct position. including hubs
2. after any change in cgminer settings overclocking or other pool settings etc. reboot the router otherwise it will just show an error message in api logs
3. after configuring route check all IP settings as some don't always get updated automatically. (one I had to go change was found here) Under the overview tab
at bottom of page in network there is a BR-LAN link I had to go in and reset these. hope this helps anyone setting one of these up that is almost there but can't quite make it work.
I'm very limited in computer skills such as using the command line, and while this was a little tricky for me to figure out persistence pays off. if you have any level of knowledge of networking etc this should be a doable for you. now that I managed to get 1 up and running I will be ordering a few more since I have it figured out now, if I have this right I should be able to
1 unplug USB
2 plug USB powered hub into tp link then plug my miners into hub and they shoul all be up and running on their own pretty quick after a reboot.