well great news after 7 full days ive finally sync'd my bitcoin wallet up with the network & my bitcoins i ordered showed up in my account

I guess ill just have to constantly leave this program running from now on.

in the future if im going to do a quick transaction of bitcoins and i havent syncd the network, or im using a new computer ill be using multibit / electrum for a quick transaction (however i will not plan on storing my coins in either of those less secure wallets...)

thank you all for your recommendations and advice during this painfully slow initial process!

i didnt use mt gox but i did install bitcoin-qt then went to receive page   and copied the address from the receive page and had the company i ordered btc from send to that address from my receive page...

i guess for whatever reason when i do listaddressgroupings its not coming up :/

but hopefully this will be finally completed in the next 8hrs i have about 1200 blocks left...  then ill be using electrum or multibit from here on out...

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i hope the address i thought was the one i have bitcoins sent to was actually my address  lol well if it wasnt someone was happily surprised with dozen bitcoins o_O

when i typed listaddressgrouping   it spit out method not found  and an error code

hrmm im gonna try connecting thru one of my vpns see if that speeds stuff up.

Ill also checkout multibit     thank you for the advice.      oh how i wish i knew this before ordering the bitcoins at the start of the week  lol

i guess my only option is to wait till this wallet syncs intially then transfer any bitcoins i have over to a more lightweight wallet so i do not have to suffer thru this excruciating waiting period again..

i have 4600 blocks left and im getting 1 block every 35seconds...   ive managed to get the wallet to connect to more then 8 clients now for the last 12hrs but its only downloaded maybe 1500 blocks.

upnp is enabled on both my router and the bitcoin app itself.


Ive checked out electrum it seems like the way to go for me in the future, but silly me when i first loaded up the bitcoin-qt client i ordered a dozen or so bitcoins thinking it would only take a couple hours to sync...   now im stuck waiting for this to complete b4 i have access to my coins lol

I will try opening this with the server argument and adding some reliable peers, hopefully that will increase the overall speed of this...  as im affraid once i get these 4600 remaining blocks there may be another 1500+ ill need to download and well ill be in this vicious never ending circle heh :/


and nope not using any encryption on this drive    could their be other factors causing this to be soo slow?

sigh i thought it got it working now were back to square one  8 connections again(it went up to 13-20 connections briefly for 2 hours now its back stuck at 8 connections) & superbly slow download      uggh over a week to download the full blockchain...   this doesnt seem right

heck ill even pay someone some btcs if you can help me get this working :/

Hi there everyone

I cannot for the life of me get over 8 connections to the bitcoin network!!

ive been reading and reading these forums on how to increase the speed of my blockchain download...   

this is what ive done so far:

Checked and confirmed port 8333 is open
Made sure port forwarding was setup on my router for this computers ip
even went as far as putting this pc on DMZ
Ive even temporarily shut down windows firewall  (even after verifying bitcoin client is added to exceptions....)
ive temporarily disabled any virus scanners just to see if that improves things, no such luck!

ive even gone as far as swapping routers to see if this increases performance, again no such luck :/
Ive tried wired & wireless connections....  no improvement...


there is nothing running on this pc (besides bitcoin 0.7.2 client)  cpu load is very low.  there is plenty of hard drive space and i have 4gb of ram...

ive tried disabling upnp on router / renabling it...   ive disabling upnp in the bitcoin client...  no luck.


I cannot for the life of me figure out how to achieve over 8 connections     everything ive read on this forum my system / setup seems to be configured the way people that are getting over 8 connections have.     Im sure im just missing something soo simple itll make me laugh...   but any advice would be much appreciated...

ive been at this download for over 5 days now and i still seem to have a couple days left o_O