I did:
- Encrypt and lock your wallet, this stops the wallet trying to stake while syncing to the network
- Use the fast start pack, download the fast start zip from the download links above and unzip it to your roaming folder
but still its very slow ~ 0.30% progress per hour with 9 connections.
If there is good friendly soul, can you please upload more recent blockchain. Thanks!
I've found that the more connections you have when you are trying to sync (common for any wallet!) the longer it will take. Check your peers list (getpeerinfo), then take one from that list and add a connect line in your config to explicitly connect to only that peer:
connect=12.34.56.78
Once synced, remove the line and restart.