Apologies, I'd like some help with my question.

Whats the benefit of changing the default diff set to 128 on slushpool higher or lower?

Thanks in advance.

Upping the diff mattered more back when you had GPU & USB miners in the same pool with bigger miners. The lower miners could shoot for lower diff and at least complete some shares before the next block so they get some kind of payment.   If a weak miner tries to do a huge diff and takes the whole time doing one share and never completes they don't get anything

And on the other side, huge miner farms don't want to have tons of small network traffic doing tiny diff so pools weigh the diff of the share as part of the payout system.. higher diff and less shares can pay more than many shares of lower diff

Seems one is running on less chips since some might be dead and the other seems faulty and throwing errors like crazy since you may see high hashing but the pool tells the tale that most of it is bull

Correction .... there are errors, but they come in 'clumps'.  I would expect more for a 600Gh difference, but it's not there. Does CGMiner generate a .log file?

Silly questions from a newbie miner.

Probably a stale or orphan?

I just started mining a few weeks ago with two S9’s. The pool luck seemed to be great when I started but now like you said has been shit for four days. Is this normal?

I guess you left Kano.... you must of matured too

.0014 daily for a single S9 from BTC.com

How's yours at Slush at this luck? Had to leave Kano, I need to make quick BTC so I can get some altcoins at their dip

Jeez, that's horrible. Somebody needs to drop a bomb on Bitmain manufacturing center anyways, no wonder why BTC.com is getting so much power these days. They reward the TX fees like Slush, unlike Antpoo. Man, next diff is gonna jump another 11% and our rewards are gonna be even lower. Damn.

Slush pool sent out an e-mail earlier this week stating the pool servers would go under maintenance and the dbase as well. Usually the mining is not affected but you will see the wrong info at the website till everything has updated.