Thank you wonderful community, you've been a great help

I'm sure bitcoin will fully take off with such wonderful helpful people helping people get set up with bitcoin.

I'm getting my grandma to sign up next week.

please help I am trying to set up armory cold storage and have been stuck on this for 2 weeks

hmm yea another 6 hours at 16 weeks left

any other ideas?

Can someone please help me figuire this out? I am trying to set up cold storage with armory but I cannot fully do this until I get this sync'd

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??

Nope just my home network.

So the last 5 lines or so of the debug are

2014-03-03 06:44:32 stored orphan tx 9bf45db312b477f3e5a39b181510f041cf4fdc0b5618ff9ee7f749f175a135d5 (mapsz 1041)
2014-03-03 06:44:33 stored orphan tx 950ed4f60fd636457dfed36e4d3facab616d11c4c88745ba62c2ab047ee8be2b (mapsz 1042)
2014-03-03 06:44:34 stored orphan tx 089663e6f42ba93ba040bc2b5ad2d3919855020039b61df3bcf16b849df2dfea (mapsz 1043)
2014-03-03 06:44:34 Added 1 addresses from 180.154.163.182: 403 tried, 14420 new
2014-03-03 06:44:36 stored orphan tx 6cb22426c06f3967b7f84cf691a8f6fe3d8ba900ef5c7f5f540cdd55f4557552 (mapsz 1044)
2014-03-03 06:44:39 stored orphan tx 8a964b371abbe997ae40b4e0cd80d5a5e5b0c0657b621c7ab733b511c7b4899a (mapsz 1045)

The time keeps advancing.  Does this mean that it is working just very slow?

Any fix? This will take a month two finish at this rate and I am trying to get armory working but I need this sync in order to do that

I got the torrent and loaded that portion via disk to speed things up... that part worked fine.

Once it got to 16 weeks behind it switched to "syncronizing" and I left it overnight (100mbit connection) and it is still at 16 now.

it says I have 30 connections and the debug log seems to be growing but I just dont get it.

Am I doing something wrong? Any way to get this working I've been trying different things the past week and cannot get it sync'd.

anyone please?

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Hey I have an HD6870 and am mining vertcoin (so the kh is half of other coins I believe)

So far, I can get 100kh with the following settings:

vertminer.exe --scrypt-vert -o stratum+tcp://xxxxxxxx -u xxxx.xxxxx -p x --thread-concurrency 4480 -I 13

If I turn up my intensity, I can get it up to about 140 but the GPU gets way too hot (like 80-85 degrees)

Others have suggested that I play around with the thread concurrency in multiples of 64 but if I put anything other than 4480 in, my speed drops to 18kh

I tried it at the following tc levels and every one of them drops the speed top about 18kh:
5760, 6400, 8192 ,6720

Also, sometimes I notice after I close and start up the miner later that even my 4480 (that I get 100kh) with will drop to 15-18 until I restart my computer.  Unfortunately, trying these other thread-concurrencys after a fresh restart doesn't do anything to raise the kh

I am confused why this happens to even my good settings and if its related to my issue of other tcs never getting over 20kh.

Any advice on this or how I can get it more up to the 125-130 range while keeping my GPU temp down would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you