My understanding is the Nicehash stratum should go dead when there is no contract to fulfill so the S3 can failover to the secondary pool, but it doesn't, it stays alive and just stops accepting shares meaning the miner sits there idle and never fails over to the secondary pool.
Yes with both my S3s and S1s,,,,and same thing on WestHash too.
My solution:
1. Given the decent prices on Nicehash right now, i just took out my price and let my miners run on NiceHash for now.
2. I monitor it closely and will move another pool into my priority position when Nicehash's average payout in BTC/THS/Day falls below what I know I can get on BTCGUIld or Eligius.
This is a well known idlebug, which we fixed in sgminer, but ASIC makers are not interested to include our fixes in their mining software.
You can try this to fix your issue: https://www.nicehash.com/docs/connect-via-proxy/
United prices across NH and WH are coming tomorrow.
Thx..that's great news. By not crossing the "big pond" with my signal, I get slightly better hash rates on WestHash... but NiceHash is always good too.
Will try the proxy ... with my zeusminers too.