Here you can find what gas price you need to point for transaction: ethgasstation.info
Now:
SafeLow (<30m) 24
Standard (<5m) 40
Fast (<2m) 91
It really looks like that Ethereum need HardFork to increase it`s speed...
We still don't know who is planning to do this hard fork in ether do we? Because if Vitalik's core team is not involved, then there is no need to investigate the fork product of ether. I don't wanna see another fork wave in ether after bitcoin.