Quote from: Frostbite72 on March 17, 2016, 09:48:22 PM

Quote from: jakiman on March 17, 2016, 07:24:02 PM

My wallet stopped syncing new blocks but it is connected to 18 peers and knows that I'm getting further and further behind.
This is now about the 3rd or 4th time doing this in the past year or so. Not happy... Lucky there's a recent fast start pack!

Yeah mine has done the same thing...again. I feel your pain. For me it seems once synced if I leave the wallet open, then it stays synced. If I close it for a day or two and try to resync a few hundred blocks, it stalls and never catches up, getting further and further away. I downloaded the fast start. hopefully syncs ok, but the fast start puts me further back then i was before, and is S-L-OOOOOOOOO-W to sync. Gonna have to leave it open another week just to catch up at this rate.
We really need a new walleet. FYI, I am running the OS X wallet.
All of these different crypto wallets have gotten too large and resource intensive to keep them open all the time. Some worse then others.
I was an early bitter coin adopter myself. Been here since the beginning.

I agree that leaving the wallet open is the best option. I have a mining machine that I also use for my PoS wallets (otherwise the CPU is just twiddling it's thumbs) and I leave Bitstar running on it all the time, and rarely have issues. The super fast 30 second block times of BitStar are one of it's best features because transactions are lightning fast, but that speed comes at a cost as well. Obviously we're still very early in the game, but fast block times can be a huge asset. The technology will improve and the network will expand with time.