It needs to be visible on the network in order to switch the agents/workers.  The miner will keep mining if it disconnects, it just won't switch if it loses connection to the laptop. 

HTH,
Carlos.

Hi - my miners seem to be stuck in dual mining ETH+PASC.  I am trying to get them to only do ETH...  I've disabled the secondary coins/algorithms, but it still keeps dual mining...In the profit switching profile the only thing visible is Ethereum...  Any suggestions?  My only solution so far is to use the 1/2/3/4/5/6 2x to get teh GPU to get Claymore to do ETH only.

Not sure how it's calculating ETH+PASC 17.2 + 517Mh is better than 30MH/s ETH only...

Thanks in advance,

Carlos