I observed the downloads and verification is slightly better. Also I stopped tor.service. Not sure if that played a part. Just gonna let it download and verify 100% then will revert back the bitcoin.conf file and turn on tor.service.
Maybe just a bit of luck on the quality of your peers?
In terms of download, even 10 peers with good connection is good enough for fast sync;
Then in verification stage, there's where you'll experience some slowdown depending on your hardware and settings.
Ok played around with reinstating tor.service and revert back the bitcoin.conf. I noticed
2024-09-30T10:59:31Z Socks5() connect to 2001:4c3c:4b02:eb00::2:8333 failed: general failure
Is this something to be concerned of? Because I always gets that.
Looks like an issue with your connection to certain IPv6 peer. That's normal if proxy is enabled.
If there's no other errors after it, there's nothing to be concerned of.