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.
I think it will be fixed in the next release.
I saw a request for a CLAM supply chart and noticed I hadn't run my local copy of the CLAM client for 20 days or so. I'm using the code on xploited's "reindex" branch and just watched it sync the last 20 days' worth of blocks (a total of 30101 blocks) in 34 minutes. That's not too bad:
2016-11-04 22:33:48 SetBestChain: new best=37a087593760701d6bc3cdb1a77f90346289a567598ba50e9abc715fdd25eeaf height=1208261 trust=321758553107633851925 blocktrust=8163903854571474453 date=10/14/16 20:49:20
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2016-11-04 23:07:25 SetBestChain: new best=53702435da83a93774383fb98f32b527b9eb7901f2e369ba9864148c0dce11ef height=1238361 trust=336352383226816688909 blocktrust=4310989900044759821 date=11/04/16 23:07:12
[Edit: I'm on a very laggy Internet connection, and was connected to only 4 peers]
I heard recently that he's pretty much ready with the new release, so hopefully we'll see it soon.