I'm having this issue as well on all of my computers and a laptop. All are downloading blocks very very slowly at around 146xxx. It's been a day and a half and they are only at 147xxx. It was never this slow before.
EDIT: This is not using the newest version of the bitcoin wallet
EDIT #2: My bad, I keep looking at the difficulty number and not the block number, lol.
Topic: Took all day to download blockchain on netbook computer. (Read 1432 times)
1GB !! each of those tars is from genesis to upload date, eh? Can anyone confirm that they are compatible with client 0.4?
yes, it's every block to date in the filename. I can't confirm but I'm 100% certain it will work fine with 0.4. 
1GB !! each of those tars is from genesis to upload date, eh? Can anyone confirm that they are compatible with client 0.4?
Thanks I never even thought about downloading the blockchain seperately. I guess it was just a crappy netbook that was the problem.
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Cool thanks. I could have sworn when I redownloaded the blockchain a few days ago it only took a couple hours. 
Or you could have downloaded a zip of the blockchain and averted this whole mess.
You can get more connections by enabling UPnP port forwarding on the router.
It mostly depends on a fast computer when it's verifying the block chain. The speed of your net connection doesn't matter unless it's really really slow.
Cool thanks. I could have sworn when I redownloaded the blockchain a few days ago it only took a couple hours.
It's a large blockchain. I think taking forever is normal. I have a very fast connection and a very fast computer and still it took a good part of a day.
I was helping my friend set up bitcoin today and it took for ever to get her blockchain downloaded. Had 8 connections. The internet speed is fast, torrents are downloaded super fast. No the torrent application wasn't running at the time. It will be done soon (I'm not there anymore). Just thought I'd ask and see what could the problem could have been.
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