Ok, so that's how that works, makes sense. Any suggestions?
All kinds of choices... depends on what you want. I rent my gear out on MRR, so that's my primary pool. I fall back onto my p2pool node in case MRR can't be reached, or in the case where the renter screws up and his pool goes offline.
I've mined at Eligius, BTC Guild, Slush, kano.is, solo.ckpool, mintsy, GHash.io, nastyfans, and more. Like I wrote... a lot of choices out there for you. Everybody's got their own opinions, and eventually you'll form your own about where you like to mine
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Apparently moving that diff number up to 1024 cut my performance from about 1.2TH to 100GH according to the pools status page, even though my device still showed running about 1.3. I moved it back down to 16 where it was originally and my numbers are coming back up where they should be. So, that begs the question, if I drop it to 4 will I get even better hash rates in the pool itself?? Hummm....
Can't help you there... I don't own that miner, nor have I ever played around with one. Sorry.