Hello everyone. My bitcoin client is currently synchronizing and has 191762 / 195388 = 98.15% of the blocks downloaded. It is going really slowly, maybe only 4 blocks a minute. At this rate it will take about a day to finish. Is this normal? Obviously it could not have taken this long on the earlier blocks. Is it because of higher transaction volume as of late or what?

Thanks in advance for your help,

secretman