on windows, click on the windows start button and type "cmd" followed by enter.  That opens up a black window where you can type "ping nya.kano.is" (or whatever).  Your miner may also have a ping option in your network configuration area.

I have pretty much your setup with a 13.6TH S9 that has been running here almost 4 months (moved here about a week after I started with virtual currency).  So far for December, I am at .04509834 BTC with 5 blocks found (.00450983 per day avg).  At $15k per BTC, that is $676 so far ($637 after power costs) and we still have most of the month yet.  There were 5 days with nothing (4 days in a row too).  October was my worst month with 14 days without a block and .00213293 per day average and the difficulty was a fair bit lower.  So keep in mind that with a smaller pool, per day averages will vary wildly and it will take a lot longer to get your rewards. But although there are times where we see an 800% block, it seems more frequent to get less than 100% blocks which adds up quickly.

Obviously awesome miner is a much better system for big miners since you can do all kinds of things (inside your firewall).  I have built up my own code to do some things inside my firewall as well.  If you are small and don't want to spend any of your mining rewards, I am about 50% done with an "external" reporting system for free at minergain dot com.  You enter you kano username and api key and the system will start grabbing 5 minute reporting right away.  I do not have the block or alert emailing coded up but that is the next step.  I will eventually allow you to bring in your payments and see various info on that.  I will also be using the 5 minute hash rate info for each miner to do charts, but that may be a while.  Since this is free forever, I am only spending a day or two a week on this system.

Actually if you have a clothes dryer, range or water heater that is electric, those are always 220 volt.  Residential panels can have 220 volt if you want them to.  Yes, most residential electricians will look at you funny though.  I have an S9, D3 and a GPU miner on one 20A circuit that is drawing about 14 amps.  I use these (search on amazon):
Leviton 620PA 20 Amp, 250 Volt, Armored, Grounding Plug, Steel
Morris 82221 Industrial Grade Decorative Duplex Receptacle, 20 Amp Current, 250V, White

Remember that whenever possible, wire in 20A 220 volt.  Obviously that is standard in Europe.  You can get two miners easily on one circuit and it saves a little bit of power loss over the wire and in the power supply versus 110 volt.

I think the  worst that we have seen is around 850%, so it can be 1% on up. It is totally random unfortunately.  Usually it is way more return than PPS payouts over the long term, so go for the long term and you'll be happy.

in case anyone is interested, it appears that nicehash has been hacked.  It has been offline (maintenance mode) for over 10 hours now.  And now reddit is having troubles too...  https://www.reddit.com/r/NiceHash/

Another possible reason if my math is right - how about us being at .00048743 BTC / Day / TH and 244% over last month.  Obviously this can change rapidly either way, but personally I have more than paid for my entire month's power cost with the first two December blocks and am already into the gravy train for the rest of the month.

looks like it is there now.  Wonder if it was your post that had them add it?  Interesting anyway.

Yeah!  Another block - this time from Dance!

and yeah - we dont need to worry about it with our first December block!

First off, be aware that you wont be able to use these funds while waiting (potentially a couple weeks) - so keep that in mind before doing this.  I use bitcoin-qt as my wallet and that has the ability to select each transaction to send.  If you go that way, you can just select all the little chunks and leave the bigger ones alone.  If not, then the easiest way to do this is to send the full amount you have in your wallet to your current receiving address.  I also have a jaxx wallet which it is critical that you set the lowest mining fees in the setup area before you start or it automatically sets you to the going rate which will not help you at all.  In any case, make sure to you are not paying more than a few dollars in mining fees to do this.  You can always do this later on when bitcoin is not so crazy.  Once you submit it, the waiting game starts.  If it makes it through the process, you will have one transaction left rather than a bunch of little ones.  If nobody picks it up in a couple weeks due to the low mining fee, it all comes back to you as if you never did the transaction.

You can also consolidate all your small transactions by doing a low payment amount.  I had about 30 transactions that I sent to myself (consolidated into one) on 11/9 with a very small miner fee and it eventually got included in a block 10 days later.  I thought it would never get picked up and drop off with all the bitcoin activity but it did go through finally.  Guess you never know.  Having it consolidated saves you fees when you "need" to move it faster than 10 days...

I also wonder, but I treat mining and crypto investments much like stocks and gambling.  It is like stocks in that it is more risky than bonds and like gambling in that I only put money in that I will not destroy my future if it goes bust. Obviously there is much more up side than this, but there is a small chance that it will all fall apart. If your risk tolerance is lower than this, then it is best to convert enough earnings to pay your power each month. That makes your mining operation much less risky.  Anyway, this is risky business, but as we have all seen, there is a lot of upside potential too.  I hope this helps gives you some options.

I have read comments that the shapeshift / jaxx combo can be very expensive - sometimes up to 10%.  Here is a comment from another forum: They (shapeshift) only have a miner fee for the amount they send back. Please check this page on their website: https://info.shapeshift.io/about.  I know that the Jaxx automatic calculation with the default BTC mining fee can be pricey.  I am not sure if converting to BCH has a BTC mining fee or not - nor do I know if the mining fee setting impacts the shapeshift fees.  In any case, be alert if you go with this option.

I could be wrong, but my experience is transfer to bittrex, exchange for bch then pay directly from there.  If you transfer to trezor then you pay two transfer fees.

Hi again.  So I finally have the Kano api connected in to minergain and am gathering worker stats every 5 minutes for a couple people.  I am also gathering hash rate and shares for the site every minute.  I am hoping to estimate payouts at some point in the near future but I have some questions about the stats...  

I know that I see many of these stats on my s9 miner's dashboard too but am kindof green on all this.  So if anyone can help me understand the following: lastshareacc (cumulative shares accepted?), diffacc (cumulative diff accepted?), diffinv (diff invalids?), shareacc (cumulative accepted shares?) and active_diffacc.  Should I be logging all of these per miner or are there just a couple that are actually part of the final reward calculation?  I am saving the hash rate for every 5 minute interval since it can change over time.  Are the rest of these incrementing over time (reset when a block is found)?  Sorry to be stupid on this and I am sure I could do a bunch of research - but I suspect the people here know this right off the top of your head.

If you prefer to ignore this, I understand since it is probably not that important to the masses...

My prediction is 3 more this month with at least one being 16BTC+.  Why not wish for amazing luck, right!

Yeah for another block.  And it was canaan that I just learned about!  My guess is that we are still at .0002105 BTC per day per TH.  And BTC broke 10k last night which is amazing.  Yeah!
I stand corrected - now that the 5np hash rate is closer to actual, we are at 0.00021392 for the month (135% BTC over last month and way more in tether).

Not sure what canaan is, but the user count is coming back somewhat.  Our low number of users was 900 on 11/17 and our high today was 1017.  In case anyone is interested, here are the November Kano Pool User and Hash stats (started gathering late on Nov 2).  BTW, I think the anomaly on the 17th is a server restart so I probably need to throw those out eventually...  I could have swore that our 200PH was in November, but either my averaging code is messed up or it was in October.

Day   Avg User   Low   High      Avg TH      Low      High
27   1000      987   1017      22,914      20,774   25,035
26   984      967   1000      20,961      19,600   22,466
25   967      951   989      20,982      20,110   23,329
24   959      949   983      20,846      19,994   22,387
23   967      951   979      21,293      20,390   22,919
22   970      954   984      22,491      20,932   25,060
21   954      943   963      22,036      20,458   24,037
20   942      925   956      20,705      18,887   22,365
19   925      912   940      21,378      20,317   23,886
18   912      900   941      24,829      23,359   26,855
17   984      6   1073      25,448      17,741   27,364
16   1059      1046   1084      24,863      23,828   26,611
15   1044      1033   1054      27,148      25,441   46,048
14   1056      1039   1074      45,708      40,910   49,203
13   1059      1043   1076      45,954      40,727   47,892
12   1055      1045   1065      44,291      39,727   45,633
11   1058      1043   1128      46,118      41,082   53,776
10   1048      1035   1058      45,607      44,087   47,180
9   1048      1037   1058      45,280      37,367   46,894
8   1036      1025   1051      45,085      40,147   46,485
7   1010      988   1050      44,875      43,647   45,926
6   971      956   1000      44,772      42,666   46,601
5   952      931   973      46,124      43,887   47,759
4   923      911   941      44,952      42,759   47,556
3   903      888   944      49,268      46,156   53,997