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alright just getting back into things with a antminer s4. I used to mine on slush but from what ive noticed slush is not really decent anymore. Doing some reading up and kano seems like a dude I can support and in turn receive support. So im joining the pool, only question is should I set my difficulty to 2048? Is that still applicable with the latest s4 firmware?

The simple answer is, unless there's a problem with your firmware, there's no need to set the work diff on the web site.
Setting it on the web site will only take effect if you set it above the pool's calculated value.

If there is a problem with the firmware then avoid using a power of 2 like 2048 - instead use a little higher e.g. 2052

As usual, remember that the work difficulty has no effect on your reward other than variance.
Higher diff means higher variance, but not much of an effect unless you make it a lot high e.g. if you set it 10x higher.

Appreciate the answer, and I am letting the server decide then. As far as I am aware I dont think there is an issue with the s4 firmware other than not being great, like it freaking out when I set it to a static IP. And it changing IPs every few minitues on DHCP. And running 4.8.0 miner.

Not sure what kind of router you have but some routers allow you to assign a specific DHCP address to a device. That way your S4s stay on DHCP and each time they request a new IP, the router sends the same one they had last time. My Cisco/Linksys E3000 can do this and it works great.

Well I bridged a wireless linksys router with ddwrt on it, to my time warner wireless router. And the antminer s4 is connected to the linksys router. The time warner router is acting as the gateway and controlling/issuing IPs. Ive try to set it to a static IP or reserved IP but its not taking.

Also I just bought this lol. For $265 on ebay so I will want to run it for a bit. My goal would be to mine enough to buy an S7 but that could take a while if ever.

gdpone

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