How-to

[gandolph420]

Hey everyone, very new to all of this.  I have just sent BTC to my bticoin wallet from cavirtex account.  When I opened my bitcoin wallet it says only 1 connection and 0 blocks.  From what I have read this doesnt seem like it should be.  I was wondering exactly how I go about setting this up so its connected properly?

I would have left this for the technical support sub-forum but I am restricted. 

[whenhowwho]

I am also new to this bitcoin thing. I had the same problem. I fixed it by opening a port on my router. Try opening the port 8333 and you should be fine. Bear in mind that it does take some time for the bitcoin app to download all of the blocks current count as i write this is 130364. Hope this helps

[meighty]

Yeah, it took me a few hours I think. Can't remember exactly.

[CovertAudit]

Over time you will get more "peer 2 peer" connections and eventually download the entire 130000+ blocks

[Vanquistador]

Deepbit states 10minute transfer times, I've found it to be more like 30minutes to an hour.

[ultra]

Deepbit states 10minute transfer times, I've found it to be more like 30minutes to an hour.

I've been experiencing that too.