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.
Thanks for suggesting and thanks to all others, who have written their solutions for that synch problem.
I think the most important thing is to automatically reboot the wallet every 2 or 3 minutes, done by a batch file for example. I tried to adjust the config file, with multiple peers or a single peer. Also tried without a config file at all. Every setting leads to a synch freeze, which appears independantly after 2 or 3 minutes.
So i guess the most effective way should consist of these steps:
1. Try to find out, which setting leads to highest synch speed (config, peers)
2. Get a look at the synch process. After how many seconds it will freeze? xx seconds
3. How long does it take to shut down the wallet? yy seconds
4. Set up a batch file for automatically shutting down the wallet after xx seconds. Let the batch reboot then after yy seconds.
Using the fast start package, you will have to synch from July, 16. For me it will take 15-20 hours before completing synch.