railzant1 (SHA256 175.00 GH/s) hasn't been running hardly at all the last 20 minutes.  Starting to claim its running more towards rated speeds but shares aren't showing up are near the rate it claims on my provider and the share rate shown on leaserig also is very low for the period of time.

BurningHashes (SHA256 201.00 GH/s) has been down for quite a while on my contract now.

Things seem to have been sorted and was given a 30 minute extension which is about the amount of time i had lost.

Now the rig has gone completely offline.

Hired and so far it has not done a single submission stale or otherwise in over 10 minutes.  Yet it says its hashing away, but clearly not showing stats on the site to indicate its submitting things to my pool.  This is for the Janikmakac3 (Scrypt 2.61 MH/s) rig.  I also had some of your others earlier and wonder if this was happening at times as well as my average hashrate for the day on my pool had dips like it lost a box's submissions for a while when all reported to be up.  And before its asked yes the pool is configured and all settings are good and its the primary pool for it ect.  It also says the pool is alive, and none of the other 15 or so rigs i have rented right now are having this problem at all.

Spent the entire time with my rig offline besides like maybe 30 minutes of the contract where it wasn't running proper speeds.

I have now spent majority of my contract with the rig offline.

Rig keeps dipping at times ~600khash/s below rated speeds for unacceptable periods of time, and has now been offline at least twice that I have noticed during my current contract which was renewed since the first contract it ran pretty good besides dips for a few minutes every now and then.  Right now its been off for over an hour this time alone since I noticed it was offline.

Also I can confirm that the rate dipping problem is not from my pool as I have over 15 rigs rented right now all going to the same pool and none of them have a similar problem at all.

So far service has been great with no downtime, on a renewal again to continue testing it out.  Will provide more details if I experience any problems but so far rig seems solid, and its run advertised speeds perfectly.

Hashrate is starting to get a bit high for cpu mining to be effective at current growth rate.  I got on with one of my old gpu's early on and am sitting quite a lot of them, but I have definitely noticed a drastic slowdown lately as the hashrates in general are skyrocketing.

Does anybody have some valid nodes, as currently none of the nodes I have seem to be online leaving me unable to download the blockchain.

Does anybody have any currently valid nodes?  I have an extensive list of nodes added from this thread and the nodes it comes with, and I have only managed to connect to one node for a short period where I actually was downloading the blockchain data, but unfortunately it only stayed connected about a minute.  I have been trying to sync this wallet for a few days now and have barely gotten any of the blockchain downloaded.  Which I need some valid nodes as I have coins sitting at a few pools that I acquired over time that I want to get into my wallet so I can see about doing something with them actually.

I am currently experiment with 17 or 18 alt coins not counting ltc and obviously not counting btc.  There is potential for quite a few of them to stick around for a while but be a lower cost currency in general.  The more I play with the various alt coins the more I am starting to see potential in several of them of staying around but being say change compared to bills, obviously really amazing new concept coins with interesting features have the potential to shift into more of mainstream coin if it gets enough people interested in their concept early on.  There no telling what could happen if somebody came along with a whole new form of cryptocurrencies with some additional basic but useful and creative features built into the wallet itself.