When I describe the reward system on here to others I'm told its PPS rather than PPLNS based on the share retention. But everywhere on this site it says it PPLNS.

I'm confused.

I like the reward system here the way its currently working because it supports and protects those of us with smaller rigs. I don't want that to change. But I am curious about the seeming discrepancy between how PPLNS is described and how this site's reward system works.

Ok...Out of curiosity I changed the port from 3039 which is the suggestion for multicard rigs to 3038 and it seems to be working fine right now. Its maintained decent speed for awhile now. Maybe an issue with the port or maybe just that my rig was too small? I'm not really sure what the significance of different ports speedwise would be.

No hardware issues. After resetting the rig back to factory I had to install a few DLL's to get the miners going.

DSTM still only intermittently manages to return solutions but EWBF works fine. 

And XMR_Stak works fine still as well.

I would prefer that DSTM worked of course. It seems to be miles beyond EWBF in Sols/s.

And DSTM still works perfectly fine on my computer.

Ok...I'm resetting the rig to factory and reinstalling the miners. XMR-Stak still works fine but now any equihash miners gives me an error that the executable is corrupted. Maybe hard drive, may be CPU or memory failure but I'll run diagnostics and post here what the issue is after.

You wouldn't happen to know if DSTM and EWBF use the same memory addresses do you?

I can use other mining software on that system with no issues. XMR-Stak works fine for monero and I'm able to mine ZEC on another site with EWBF.

Its starting to look more and more like this particular software just doesn't get along with either the hardware or perhaps the firewall even though disabling that didn't make it better.

I've reinstalled DSTM with no improvement.

Is there any chance your servers support anything other than DSTM for ZEC with Nvidia and Windows?

Ok...It just started working fine again on my computer but it still only intermittently works on the rig.

I'd find Pool shares useful. It would give me an idea of the percentage I'm pulling. Just knowing my shares isn't useful without knowing how it relates to the overall shares.

Thanks for the info.