Sorry all, started a new job and Telstra still hasn't connected my internet 

Opened the wallet just now and it connected and synch'd so not sure what the problem was but it seems to have resolved now

Thank you everyone for your help, it's very much appreciated

Re: Abdussamad

Red icon in the bottom right

I've tried using several different servers, including going off the list from electrum.org that monitors them to make sure i was using servers that were up

Proxy is disabled



So the speed on my mobile phone (with kogan) is 116mbps down and 15 up, but on my desktop (which is using the telstra mobile network) its about 5mbps down and 1 up.

Fixed internet is meant to be activated here today, so if its just a speed issue then I should have a positive outcome in a few hours and will let you all know

If it doesn't fix it then I'll probably have a little cry in bed before I come back to ask for more help

Thank you everyone for everything so far!

Yeah I have the seed written down, and it's the same address.

How do I spend them without electrum connecting? I saw an option for email, but i didnt want to start messing around with other bits yet in case I made a boo boo

I have the blockchain_headers file, it's at 43,466kb so I guess it's done something haha


Cool, so it's not dependencies then

I know how to open via cmd, but not sure what you mean about the -verbose flag?



Aaaaand I didn't realise I would need python or anything. All the articles I read about which wallet to use pretty much said electrum was the easiest and made it seem like plug n play.

I'm with telstra. Im not using my phone for internet either, the latest modem they provide has an inbuilt SIM so you can use the 4G network until the landline is activated.

Stuck on not connected.

Not using a phone, Windows 10 on PC. Just moved house and don't have a fixed internet service yet

My seed is backed up, https://www.blockchain.com/explorer says the money is there

I've tried the hsmiths one but no love

I'm in australia, not sure what you mean by company (purchased from coinmama?), and we dont really do borders haha

Hi,

I downloaded Electrum 3.3.2 from https://electrum.org/#download

Set up my wallet etc.

Didn't realise it wasn't connected to a server yet and purchased some Bitcoin.

I haven't been able to get Electrum to connect to a server yet.

After it wouldn't connect automatically, I tried several different servers that the "Monitored List" lists as OK.
( https://1209k.com/bitcoin-eye/ele.php via https://electrum.org/#community )

I don't have any sort of complex network where I am at the moment, however my internet is currently over the 4G mobile network and not fixed internet (unsure if this would cause issues as Electrum does have a portable version for mobile devices)

I've allowed the app through the firewall as well.

I've spent about 90 minutes this morning reading through Reddit and bitcointalk.org but haven't had any success.


Would anyone be able to offer me some support please?