Just like you can not find anything about the S:Next-one, they are self mining with the L1 ......

All S3's come with WIFI in addition to an ethernet port, but because they are enclosed, the connection tends to be unreliable, however, that can easily be fixed by adding an external antennae (which should cost around $5).  

You can also get a router yourself and bridge it with/to your neighbour's router then connect your rigs to your router.

There are loads of S3's (and the variants) on sale on ebay, amazon, gumtree etc, just do a search on any.

I've actually had the same thing on my mind since ck posted the message about the changes made (I believe that was during the "attack" on the network). I won't speculate as to what the changes may have been as it is to a large extent over my head, but suspected the changes would reduce the variance of the pool's luck (ultimately, as you say, seemingly improving the pool's luck, ie smooth it).

Now I know ck said those changes are being kept for the pool to have a better advantage over other solo pools, but wouldn't adding (some of) those features to a distributed proxy (which I believe distributed ck pool code has) go even further to improve / smooth the pool's luck to all our benefit?
(just a thought ...)

Antminer S3 and S1 are both WIFI. They both can be finicky but adding an external antennae usually sorts them out.
I wouldn't vouch for going for a WIFI miner though, and that bitmain decided to drop it for their (now EOL'd) flagship S5 is telling.

Name your price, seeing bitmain are in the doldrums and sfards are aiming for your mantle.

^^^^ And that is the plague of signature campaigns striking .... basically nothing to add to (not even negate)  what has already been said.

AMT_Miners ..... 9 months since last post! This thread IS something .....

If the diff is set low, then the software on the rig may get into a loop (for lack of a better word) trying to submit so many shares in a very short space of time that it crashes the rig before the pool has a chance of adjusting share diff. I personally always set my rigs' diffs higher than their rated speed (as I know the pools I mine on will lower / set it appropriately after a while).

Pricing on SF100 single units please!?

A picture says a thousand words ..... button for S5 is active, ditto the price hike

Set it to at least half the speed that you've seen it hash (or what it is rated to hash) to be on the safe side, i.e if you see 1Th/s, set it at 512 and the pool will take it from there; that way you avoid the classic S2 syndrome!

There is your proof if you wanted any ...... S:Next-one is a 1.5Th/s rig for $600.

Is that actually a bitmain chappie?
I doubt the S:Next-one will have the same spontaneous-self-combustion bug that the now discontined S5 has ... but I suppose we'll have to wait and see.

Was just thinking if the earlier "rumour" of the S5 price going to $600 having been mis-interpreted, but that the price was, rather, for the S:Next-one.
Seeing both the S5 and S4+ have been withdrawn from market at the same time, and assuming that the earlier price leak was for the S:Next-one, then that would make it a stock 1.5Th/s machine at the mid point of the pricing for both the S5 and S4+ for the rumoured $600 (or in magnitudes there-of).

I shall be watching the used S5 market (or alternate gear) should that be the case ....

^^^ Makes you think of the people that bought at $439 ...... was that a master-stroke on their part seeing they'll definitely be getting vouchers worth (by bitmain's standards) over twice the short term increment ($439 - $399 = $40), aka approx $100 voucher off the S:Next-one? Now that would be something .....

Good spot there ....! Yep, S6 cum S:Next-one is definitely due any moment now. Ooops ... squeeky-bum-time .... can't contain the excitement.

At the current $399 price, the S5 is $0.346/GH at stock freq (or $0.381/GH at $439) - not too far off the advertised but either way not what it says (anymore) in the thread title.
PS. Is having a signature campaign qualification to post irrelevant rebutals (verging on spam)?

@Kano, any chance of  updating the S1 cgminer with the power-reboot fix you applied to the S3 cgminer?

Yep I agree .... I paid a total of BTC 1.1 (that's including shipping) for my first one (after applying a voucher I got from no other than dog1965 !). And remember those earlier batches were regarded as price skimming ...... so what would you call the latterday pricing on the extended batch 5 if not a price rip-off?

It most likely is the case that the S7 is on the horizon. I for one am out of this game for a while purely on the pricing, and seeing bitmain control the market to the extent of being able to dictate competitors' pricing, I may be out for a while yet. If however you are right and the S5 drops to (what now is 1BTC) on the S7's release, dependent on the effect the release has on the BTC rate, I may be back in sooner with the S5 or SF100 (certainly not the S7).