Hello
I'm not sure this is the right place but i don't get reddit to post there.
I was trying to install the ethereum wallet for the last 2 weeks.
I am a long time bitcoin, litecoin and now altcoin miner since 2012, have a couple of farms, so this is not my first rodeo.
I try to install the wallet in windowsXP but it doesn't execute (something to do the way it was packed)
so I create a VM with windows 7 64 and download 64 bit version: it doesn't work, not even execute (this time, no errors)
downloaded the 32 bit version, starts but says that the background process is not present whatever that means.
reading a lot i figured it out (because NOWHERE in the official places says that) that i must execute geth first.
now, geth is not present on the x64 version of the wallet !!! WTF ??!?!
I copied geth from the 32 bit version to the 64 bit version and now it works, but i have to manually start FIRST geth then the wallet.
now, i have been waiting for 2 WEEKS for it to update! come on! what is going on??, the geth process works for 10 maybe 30 minutes and stops updating, still killing my entire upload stream, making me impossible even to navigate, but it stops updating after 30 minutes at most!.
sometimes when i launch it, it does even begin to update, sometimes just updates 5 blocks and stops.
i addedd static-nodes.json but nothing changed, sometimes updates, sometimes not, sometimes just a few blocks and stops
I had to create a queue tree rule (HTB) in the mikrotik router to lower the outbound internet usage of the wallet to avoid issues with my miners (stale work due to lack of upload speed).
I'm on the block 1100000 now, still 400000 to go, so should i keep fighting like this for another week before i can take the money from the pool?
so:
2 options
1) I am doing everything WRONG, and i am an idiot. (which i hope this is the reason, because the alternative would be troublesome)
or
2) the wallet is a piece of crap, like i have never ever seen before, in my more than 4 years as a miner, in this case i can't believe that you guys did this like that on purpose, i just cannot believe it.
so, I hope it is option 1, and I am the idiot, if this is the case, what I am doing wrong? can you tell me please? i just wanna use the damn wallet!!!!!, I am not trying to design a asic in VHDL, come on!, this is extremely basic functionality, how can this be that hard!.
sorry for the tone, but i am growing desperate with this, just wanna use the wallet, that's it, what i am doing wrong?
thanks
indkt
[EDIT] For the last 4 hours i was trying to keep updating the wallet but now there is a new issue, it does not download anything after about 20 minutes say sync failed and does nothing, never downloads anything.
I removed the static-nodes.json just in case but same problem, i have proper conectivity as i can update all the other wallets even bitcoin wallet, but not this one.
what can i do to fix this?, thanks.
...maybe its because the DAO hangs the ETH wallet.....
