ROI, schmROI!  Who really cares at this point?  I have an addiction to feed.   

I received my starter kit today that was ordered July 8th. The shipment left Washington yesterday at 5:57 pm and arrived today at 1:53 pm. The address was incorrectly labelled on the package but I lucked out on a great driver who called dispatch to contact me and sort it out. I sent him on his way with an assortment of Gatorade and chocolate as thanks.

For Canadians looking for details on import duty: Megabigpower listed the value of the starter kit as 750 USD in the category of Motherboard. This category qualifies for Canadian taxes at a 100% rate. FedEx used an unfriendly conversion to place the value of the hardware at 771.93 CDN which taxed at 13% HST for a 100.34 charge. Of course FedEx also added in their own 11.30 ROD fee. The canadian dollar amount I paid for the starter kit was 1411.51 based on my CC assigned exchange rate at the time of purchase. With taxes the total paid stands at 1523.15 CDN.

In the box was the 2.0 version of the M-Board and one H-Card. After firing up the miner it took me a good 20 minutes to sort out some networking issues. I'm hashing at about 24 Gh/s without tuning and what looks to be one dead/marginal chip. Took a bit longer than expected but megabigpower has followed through on their promise and for that I must convey my thanks and respect.

Same thing here; 1 H-card and about $113.60 in total duties/fees.

I did not receive an SD card though, which makes the setup a lot less intuitive, as is the lack of included instructions of any kind (just a receipt from the megabigpower account page). Ill report on setup as soon as i wipe and reformat a camera card.....bit of an unexpected drawback

nope, #13X but not 134. The Rpi box (which was cracked and taped shut, no reason why that would create concern though) obviously has a spot for the card, but no card. trust me, i checked the entire box, 1 foam peanut at a time. 2hrs downtime while i download the image.

heres my setup questions. I have the hardware all correctly oriented and ready to power up (minus the SD card):
1) do i need just the image, or the chainminer code, or both?
2) once plugged, do i follow the US setup or the EU setup method?
3) the solder contacts along the bottom of the m-board: are they hazardous to the surface the unit is on, and is there risk of them shorting on a wooden surface?

do you have a monitor you can hook up to it to make sure the IP you are using and gateway are correct? hook up a keyboard also, and when it loads type ifconfig to check the IP and gateway

okay im stuck already. having to load my own sd card is a massive PITA.

i cant ssh to the default ip. says connection refused when using putty. can someone help list the steps to get me off hte ground, because neither the EU or US manuals seem to address this

no hdmi monitor and no usb keyboard on hand guys     also, is it normal for the several GB .img file to make the SD card suddenly appear 33/55MB full? is that an effect of the imaging or an error?