Other than port 9333 and 9332 is there any other ports that need to be opened on the firewall?

I find when I had one of my miners using my external IP that the table under the hashing table would not update, as soon as I set my miner to the LAN IP of my pool and connected it to my LAN the table updates. Last night I moved my miner off site and its now pointed to the external IP and the table isn't updating. Though the hashing table above it is updating. So I wonder if this is a bug or if I need to open some other port to allow the table to properly update?

Thanks,

Not true... Depends on the features of your router.

Mine allows detailed QoS priority settings for Outgoing and Incoming connections separately across the WAN <-> LAN and can also limit settings across various LAN IPs.

If your router only supports outgoing QoS, it's a shitty router/switch.

I've got two here, very happy with them.  One's running at 2.77GH and the other at 2.55GH - both at 54.  Running them on bfgminer 3.9.0, plugged in to a DLink 7-port.  Also work fine on an aluminium Anker 10-port USB3 hub.

I am not sure if this refers to what CartmanSPC is saying but my Bfgminer sometimes gets stuck requesting work from my P2Pool which is on the same network to the point were the miners shutdown and I have to restart bfgminer again. When I hash against the other fee based miners this happens. I also notice this happening on my ASIC USB miners as well with P2Pool only.

Would it be possible to suppress the "longpoll/stratum from pool request work restarts" from the miner console?

Miners don't see that on other pools and it confuses them.

Sounds like youre washed your brain with this, open your eyes.

You MUST be vigilant with P2Pool, you aren't going to see the real profit from it until you have run it for at least 30 days.

Note, this is from the following post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=153232.0

Patience

If you are beginning on P2Pool you should expect irregular payments which can be frustrating. P2Pool is attracting more and more hashrate (from a low 200GH/s in March 2013 to a high 1.4TH/s in July 2013) but its variance is still somewhat high.

First you should be prepared to mine for a couple of days to check that your configuration is good enough (study the efficiency value displayed by your node's main page). If your efficiency is near or above 100%, you can expect more income on P2Pool than in most traditional pools. The only question for you is how long you are willing to wait for variance becoming negligible. On P2Pool with the current hashrate, you should expect to be in the 80-120% luck range in a couple of weeks. I've never seen P2Pool get <80% luck during more than a month. In 6 months I've seen both near 120% luck in a month and near 80% luck in another. As I wrote elsewhere: add your hashrate by joining us and variance will go down!

Note: P2Pool's payment method is PPLNS, with its current configuration you have to wait approximately 72 hours (on Bitcoin, this changes with other coins) to get the first "full" payments. These payments are mined coins (unlike most other pools), they are usable after 120 confirmations not 6 (but you get them as soon as the block is found which makes them usable as quickly as most other pools).

Put that way, the answer has to be that people can't do math.

Difficulty rising will reduce your earnings no matter how you mine. Unless of course you upgrade, which is what a lot of people end up doing (otherwise you won't me a miner for long), in which case again you are looking at a long term proposition to smooth out short term fluctuations in your earnings.