yet I am only allowed to ask in Newbies Forum. So I repost the question here.
Quote from: bionicghost
the block chain has been downloading at an excrucuatingly slow pace [about 1 block per 5 seconds].
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.782085
I have same problem as this user, but I get only [1 block per 18 seconds]!https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.782085
Yes I have bitcoin-qt 0.6.2
Yes, I do prtforwarding 8333
1. Solve "You can download a premade blockchain + index, but that implies a certain amount of trust in the supplier of the files, as they are not verified as thoroughly that way."
But what is the cause of slowness?
What does it mean in the quoted thread above? "The slow part is not downloading the blockchain, it's verifying it and building a transaction index for it (the blkindex.dat file)."?
I have an Intel Core " Duo @2.40Ghz, 2 GB Ram". But I dont see any strange behaviour of bitcoin-qt in Taskmanager CPU column!