Ive used a torrent each time.
I just did a re-download of the torrent, fresh install and now I am stuck on 28 weeks syncing for the last 10 hours.
I am on an SSD, 100mbit, 16gb ram, win 64, so I dont think its my hardware/connection.
I'm going on 10 days trying to get this to work...
any other ideas??
You could try to use bitcoin-qt.exe -dbcache=100 setting to increase the cache. That should speed things up a little. Default is 25.