Eclipse uses diff=2 as the minimum now, to help discourage botnet miners.  Running at diff=2 does not hurt your earnings in any way, it just reduces the frequency of shares.  You'll see more variance, but given time it will earn you the same as you would at diff=1.

Locked out of my account due to Google Authenticator. Any chance my account can be unlocked? Still have some BTC in it.

I must have missed that.  Merged mining has been removed as an option a long time ago and I've updated the post now... I thought I had removed it from everywhere, but must have missed that line.

US2 and US3 should be back up now.  Stats will be wonky as the servers synchronize and catch up with each other.

Where are you looking at your hashrate, on the EMC dashboard?  Hashrates on pools are only estimates based on the shares submitted, so no pool will tell you your actual hashrate, only an average rate based on an estimate.  As long as your average hashrate over time is correct, you are good to go.

If you want a more accurate hashrate measurement, change your window under the settings tab.  It's labeled as "Minutes to estimate miner hashrate" ... change it to 45 or 60 minutes.

@af_newbie: The pool sets difficulty dynamically.  If you are being reset to 2 a couple times a day, it means you are disconnecting from the pool (or changing servers) for an extended period of time (I think it's set to reset after a minute or two).  Any idea why you might be disconnecting or switching servers?

I will be increasing the minimum difficulty here in the near future from 2 to 4 or so, but i'm not sure that's helpful to you specifically.  I think you can specify minimum difficulty in cgminer/bfgminer upon connecting, too, which you might want to do.

Ah yeah, it rolls over at 60 minutes, so 60 itself isn't available, but 59 will give you 59min 59 seconds of hashrate estimate.

@byte1: So your mining unit is actually mining at 1/2 it's speed until a reset?  What hardware are you using?

Is it being hosted at kcmocolo?  There are a bunch of rigs there and no one else has reported this problem... are you sure it's not something physically wrong with the rig?  Do you have to power it off and back on or just reboot the machine it's connected to?

Do you have to reboot the minirig or the host that it's connected to?  If you have a dedicated box, I think it's just hooked directly into the box.  If you're on a shared host, then it's through a USB hub possibly, but more than likely, it's connected directly to the ports.

However, it's possible the internal USB hub is failing and needs to be swapped out.  That might account for what you're seeing if rebooting the host (but not power cycling the rig itself) is solving the problem.  If so, that's a quick and easy fix.

DaFuq!?

I solved 4 blocks in a little over 24hrs!

Can i borrow your hardware for 12h?