thanks
pool 3 suggestion would be appreciated also
Oh dont take what i said as a suggestion for your pools, take it as an example of what i use indeed.
This works too, a lot of people decides to mine at different nodes of the same pool:
Also Kano has few different nodes, so you can put them as backup if you want
USA: stratum+tcp://stratum.kano.is:3333
Netherlands: stratum+tcp://nl.kano.is:3333
Germany: stratum+tcp://de.kano.is:3333
Singapore: stratum+tcp://sg.kano.is:3333
Japan: stratum+tcp://jp.kano.is:3333
Personally i dont use that method because of delay to ping nodes in different locations than EU.
Pick your own pool(s) and use pool1, pool2, pool3 as sequential mining backups if anything goes wrong, so you wont loose your mining operation because a node becomes unreachable (miner's software would automatically switch to pool2 if pool1 falls down and it would automatically switch to pool3 if pool2 falls down).
I ping fine in Canada so propably the Germany and Netherland nodes would be ok for you as pool2 and 3