Block download speed

[naukop]

I just downloaded the client (0.3.22-beta) and the block download has really slowed down to a trickle.

The first 50,000 dowloaded in a few minutes but now its been 30 minutes for the following 20,000 (around 73,000 blocks now). Still showing 8 connections

Is it because the "newer" blocks are bigger?

PS This is on 100/50 Mbit connection

[Maged]

I just downloaded the client (0.3.22-beta) and the block download has really slowed down to a trickle.

The first 50,000 dowloaded in a few minutes but now its been 30 minutes for the following 20,000 (around 73,000 blocks now). Still showing 8 connections

Is it because the "newer" blocks are bigger?

PS This is on 100/50 Mbit connection

Yes, they are much bigger.

And by the way, the bottleneck isn't downloading them: it's verifying them. Larger blocks also take longer to verify.

[Freakin]

has there been any talk of including a large number of blocks in the initial client download?

[luv2drnkbr]

has there been any talk of including a large number of blocks in the initial client download?

Yes.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/blockchain/