I've just set up a fresh full node using 0.11.2 Core client. Syncing the whole blockchain took 4 days. What is interesting, downloading blocks was not a bottleneck. My 20 Mbit/s connection was never fully utilized. What is slow, is population of the database and probably building base of UTXO. I admit that my setup is rather slow: Core2Duo @ 2.4 GHz and external 1 TB HDD (5400 rpm) on USB 2.0. With this setup HDD seems to be the major bottleneck.