hey guys-

ive taken on the task of solo mining and want to ensure I am doing it correct

I have a few questions regrading the (dead on arrivals, stales orphans) been going through a plethora of old posts and running a few tests and brought the effeciency up to 103% and less dead and less dead but still dont think im doing it right..
 before i throw all my S9s on the solo lottery i wanna ensure i am doing it correctly-

the pool rate shows my ~70 Th/s but local only shows 2956 Mh/s  how do I bring that local hash rate up?! 

any settings I should be looking for or anything I should refer to specifically?

Thanks in advance. I appreciate all the posts and i apologize if this is the right place- im still a noob

I AM SORRY IN ADVANCE IF THIS HAS ALREADY BEEN POSTED AND ANSWERED- I TRIED TO SEARCH BUT GOT LOST IN OTHER THREADS OF GREAT DISCUSSIONS...

I have an S7 that overheated and then when i powered it back up i couldnt get the miner onto the network.. seems like the ethernet port may have burnt out there is a beeping noise and instead of a green blinking light its now a red blinking light...

any advice would be helpful, im crying at night seeing the price rise of BTC and this miner just idling around...

Can this be repaired... sent back is it worth it? can i salvage the chips?
i have S5s but they are slower than molasses and loud and hot. it is difficult to leverage them and power them at same time.

Have a S7- working 4-THS  A R4 WHICH SEEMS TO BE THE BEAST OF THEM ALLLL QUIET EFFICIENT NOT USING A LOT OF PSU... SHOULD IT USE MORE PSU-- SHOULD I RAM UP THE FREQUENCY ON THAT ONE??

R4-~5TH/s

s5 500gig hash-- am i supposed to update the firmware on these at all or anything-- or just straight plug and play??

Thanks in advance!!

Im just Tryn 2 Eat 2!!

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