I made an updated bootstrap.dat file for people having trouble syncing their client.
It goes up to block 1220900 which was staked on Sun Oct 23 17:29:04 UTC 2016.
It's available as a download here:
bootstrap.datTnx for the link. Flying now with the bootstrap

Even though syncing through the p2p network would be slow it would be done by now if it weren't for the 750 orphan limit. Its been almost four days now, as a test I left it running, I noticed that very slowly new blocks were getting in, but at a rate of maybe a 1000 a day - which is silly.
This really should be fixed.