I have http://us.ozco.in:8331 set as a backup, but that does not appear to work either and my 2nd backup (bitcoinpool) no longer exists. Any suggestions for a backup ozco pool or a different pool?

Yep, last couple days.

All mining nodes have been updated with new changes that will help with bandwidth issues that have cropped up since ASIC's have hit the mining world hard.  These changes should also help with fewer "Lost xx shares due to stratum disconnect on pool x" messages.  If your internet has issues, it will not fix that issue.

Changes are:
Dynamic difficulty setting of -1 will now load in your last difficulty that your miner was working at when it logs in.
Manually setting a difficulty of an ASIC miner too low, will force it to a dynamic difficulty.  This does not set your difficulty on the web site!  Once your miner has settled on a good number, please set it in your worker's page.

Yeah mining node has lost communication with DB server, shares are being cached and will be counted when comms resumes.
sorry for the inconvenience

thanks

eustratum/DB connection fixed, shares currently counting

New guy here and not sure if this is normal. I just received my avalon last week and have had it mining here about 5 days. I've been getting worker idle notifications the past 2 days but the miner hasn't skipped a beat other than the resets I've done after trying changes. About the same time the stats are reporting a hash rate of about half of what cgminer shows (as far as I can estimate due to the stats delay).

My efficiency also seems low compared to others (~99%), should this always be at 100% and what settings affect it?

I know it depends on pool luck and up time but what is a reasonable daily earnings to expect from a batch 3 avalon at the current difficulty?

Nice calculator, thanks.

That's quite a bump on difficulty today. It's going to be tough to break even on this thing if all the new asics deliver on time.   

I got an idle worker notification for both my workers, and both the widget and the website show my hashrate as 0, but CGMiner is still reporting the pool as up and is still submitting shares. Any issues noticed on the pool end?

No worries. Thanks for the explanation!