Quote from: medUSA on March 26, 2014, 05:19:30 AM

Quote from: xe99 on March 26, 2014, 04:03:03 AM

..for some unknown reason it takes about an hour to download one day of the blockchain
..its taken me several days, two to three hours at a time to download about five days worth of blockchain

I recently downloaded the blockchain on an old computer, the speed you quoted sounded about right on a not-so-recent computer.

Quote from: xe99 on March 26, 2014, 04:03:03 AM

I remember the first time i installed bitcoin-qt and armory on my previous Ubuntu install
i was able to download the entire blockchain in a day.

I remember downloading the blockchain 12 months ago, it took less than half a day Grin

The new torrent download takes me a couple hours. But then it has to process the bootstrap file which takes a few hours. And then Armory has to build its databases which takes another couple. I think most people will have slower internet than me, but it will still usually take less than 8 hours for that bulk download.

The key point though is: the torrent download guarantees you can max out your bandwidth during download. When you download through Bitcoin Core, you are downloading from a random peer that might be slow, or periodically stop responding. I heard the devs were working on a parallelized downloading to mitigate this problem ... well we basically implemented that for them by doing the torrent thing

Let me know how it goes!