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.
This may be an unreasonable request but can someone upload their blockchain to a free filehost so we can just replace it with our own?