Haven't opened my wallet for about 5 days, and wow is it taking it's time to sync, despite 12 connections.
About quarter of the way through catching up so far and it's been going an hour. Anyone else seen anything like this?
Yes I'm in the process of downloading the blockchain. It appears to freeze every so often while downloading. I have to restart the wallet-qt every now and then - this seem to work for some time until it stops.