I can't imagine it just "takes time" to connect to these nodes.
I've added .conf to roaming folder. Added all nodes from this thread and over 30 mins later still not syncing.
I did all of that too & mine took about 20 minutes - most of that time it was flipping between no connections and 1 connection to network, and then it worked and downloaded. Not sure if there's anything else you can do but wait.