3 minutes off, 1 minute ON, than again off .. stratum server ddos?

are we under attack becuase of whats happning in america?

i seen slush drop to 33Thash

My miners switched to a backup pool, now Slush's rate is getting back, at 59 TH now...

what do you use as backup (that works)?

Are they DDos attacks , or is it all the new miner devices in the hands of beginners trying to get online?

Can you imagine:- 200 new BFL devices every day, all those users trying to set up their *.bat files
 with the wrong input data(like website passwords instead of miner passwords)50 restarts before they ask for help?

Edit:- pool has just gone down

Edit 2:- even failover can make the problem worse.

Still offline ATM

Yeah this is bad...
the total pool hashrate drops about 1 Terahash per minute atm.. looking at statistics page

Would it make any difference if we turned our miners Difficulty way up? It must be a big Botnet to take out all these pools.