Well, I guess if it doesn't just blow up when I turn it on, we'll be all set !!

That's the intention.   Have to pick up a spare router on the way home - they've made it somewhat difficult to SSH into the box because the default gateway is set to something other than what my network uses, and that's the only way into the box....

There is supposed to be another Jupiter here on Thursday.  The two machines for R5 and R6 should have arrived at the same time, but KNC seems to be having some shipping issues.  

My intention - to keep things fair for everyone that bought into R5 and R6 is this:

Split the hashrate of the first box 50/50 between R5 and R6.
Split the hasrate of the second box that's supposed to arrive on Thursday 50/50 between R5 and R6.

I'll also split the hasrate of a third Jupiter between R5 and R6 for as many days as we were only hashing at 50%.  Assuming the boxes show up when they are supposed to, that would mean I'll be splitting the output of a Jupiter between R5 and R6 (and both GB's would be mining at 150% or 725 Gh/s) for three days - from Thursday through Sunday some time.

And if the boxes don't end up showing up in a timely manner and we hit a difficulty increase, I'll also split the output of a fourth Jupiter between the two GB's for a couple of days - so the GBs would be mining at 1.1 Th/s, or 200% of what everyone purchased for those days - to make up for the difficulty increase that took place...

-R-

Was this from emailing the two addresses posted by OP?  Or did you get through to someone else to make this happen?

I'm thinking that people who jumped in when ASICS started (say early this year, just for arguments sake) are going to run out of money before hardware vendors can push the difficulty too high - will we hit billions, yes, but I still think it'll plateau and when it does, hardware should be available for shipment IMMEDIATELY (no more of this pre-order crap) and with any luck, the big money will be spent (on Gen1 and Gen2) and the really fast hardware will be available for a good price with lots of opportunity.  I'm probably wrong, but it's a nice thought.

OR

Companies will not be able to afford to keep operating on our pre-order money and they will go out of business.

I'd have to disagree with this statement. Only people inexperienced with Mining Calculators, Difficulty to Hashrate Conversions, and a lack of knowledge on all current ASIC manufacturers and their estimated release dates claim that their unit will not make a profit above what they paid for it.

Personally my Day 1 Orders will likely pay for themselves in 2 months at the latest, but I expect sooner than that based on my predictions.

October 15th orders might have a more difficult time but will "ROI" as you say.

As an example I'd like you to tell me what you expect the difficulty to be in February 2013 based on your calculator and then tell me the corresponding hashrate that would have to be on the network to reach that difficulty.

i didn't transfer my shares to bitfunder. what happen to my shares on btct.co?
can i transfer my shares now? i just wake up and the shares is frozen???!!!!

KNC still have units for shipping in November and at 550+Gh per $5k, I think we should be seriously considering purchasing some.

Lab_Rat what are your thoughts on KNC they seem to really know what they are doing in my opinion.