I have let it run and up to 43,000 blocks, its been on for about 5 hrs. Is it suppose to be that slow, I am relatively new to cryptos so I don't know if I am doing something wrong.
It depends. Are you using an SSD or a spinning HD? It usually takes me a lot longer to sync to an HD than an SSD. I'm on an SSD and I've been running it for less than an hour and I'm over 10k blocks so far.