I started Geth with the supplied Windows batch file. How long does it take to download the blockchain? How can I tell when the blockchain is completely in place?
I am assuming that the blockchain is still downloading, the console window has text streaming by.
It's really pretty quick. I get around 100 blocks per second on my relatively slow connection - when it works at all.
The problem I'm having is I find it almost impossible to find any peers to connect to. While running 'geth console', type:
net.peerCount
and it will tell you how many peers you are connected to. I usually see:
0
...
If I run:
geth --verbosity 6 console
it shows extra debugging, including lots of lines like this:
I0814 23:19:38.061221 10297 peer.go:164] Peer 880b62ae95ef4e37 105.229.120.235:30305: remote requested disconnect: Too many peers
indicating that the peers I'm finding are all too full to allow my connection.
Any idea how to fix that?