Bitcoin taking FOREVER to synchronize w blockchain

[Lgetty17]

I got the first 80% of the blockchain synchronized within about 6 hours, but the last 20% has just dragged on forever. Probably 4 or 5 days now. Anyone seen this before?

[Gabi]

The last blocks are bigger  The 2009/2010 blocks were almost always empty 

[RoryPaskin]

Wow, mine synchronized within a day, it depends on your internet speed I guess.

[Pathosverdes3]

For Litecoin you can download a fresh blockchain backup from http://blockchain.litecoin.net/litecoin/

make sure you read the readme at http://blockchain.litecoin.net/README.TXT on how to use it. Basically you unpack, then run "litecoind -rescan" to refresh the database.

It's much faster to download from here than to download from the network for most people.

maybe there is one for Bitcoin as well.