How long to download Ethereum Blockchain?

[Doom4535]

So I can confirm that if you are having syncing issues with the gui client, directly running geth seems to solve that (and be faster).

[megacrypto]

been trying to download the blockchain now for like 2 days (ok .. im on a bit of a slow internet connection) but it did finish all the 2,4xx,xxx and then it started giving me this:

Code:

I1013 18:23:23.760960 core/blockchain.go:963] imported 13 block(s) (0 queued 0 ignored) including 0 txs in 2.139247661s. #10744 [94def6db / 0cad54b5]
I1013 18:23:28.335455 core/blockchain.go:963] imported 83 block(s) (0 queued 0 ignored) including 0 txs in 4.572811035s. #10827 [b9cb7627 / b25aa278]
I1013 18:24:37.184374 core/blockchain.go:963] imported 1442 block(s) (0 queued 0 ignored) including 0 txs in 1m8.832837271s. #12269 [817a9972 / bae636f1]
I1013 18:26:05.196956 core/blockchain.go:963] imported 2048 block(s) (0 queued 0 ignored) including 0 txs in 1m27.937069128s. #14317 [f142f2e4 / f161e26e]

is it starting from the beginning again?! and this is going at much slower rate than it did before?!


btw .... thats ETC not ETH

[GMK]

ETH is a ridicolous blockchain to download
Tonight I made an attempt, the estimation of download time required was 47 years   I give up and closed that clowny wallet just because my estimation is that my laptop should die before me haha

[Sundark]

ETH is a ridicolous blockchain to download
Tonight I made an attempt, the estimation of download time required was 47 years   I give up and closed that clowny wallet just because my estimation is that my laptop should die before me haha

I am quite confused here so you are saying that this was wrong estimation or correct one?
How Ethereum's blockchain despite being smaller in size (it is only 16 GB AFAIK) than bitcoin's blockchain is so hard to download?

[GMK]

ETH is a ridicolous blockchain to download
Tonight I made an attempt, the estimation of download time required was 47 years   I give up and closed that clowny wallet just because my estimation is that my laptop should die before me haha

I am quite confused here so you are saying that this was wrong estimation or correct one?
How Ethereum's blockchain despite being smaller in size (it is only 16 GB AFAIK) than bitcoin's blockchain is so hard to download?

probably the correct one indeed often it happens you download 30k of blockchain but the target refresh itself of 100k
better to use myetherwallet instead a typical physical software wallet

[quantumhunky]

How do you know blockchain is downloaded and synced?
Running Geth 1.6.4 with flags --fast --cache=1024 (Windows 10).
Screenshot: https://ibb.co/gMVQyF

[ifeoluwa]

maybe you should check your processor and internet connection

[quantumhunky]

maybe you should check your processor and internet connection

why?

[FredCailloux]

Just as a datum, I started for the first time the Ethereum app on Thursday the 8th of June and I am still downloading the blockchain today on the 13th of June (and nothing is wrong with my internet connection). According to calculations I am at about 90% from completion and actually downloading at a rate of 0.17% blockchain per hour. Calculated prediction for 100% completion is putting me to the 17th of June, and that is if it stays at 0.17% blockchain/hour. Since start, it went from 5% per hour down to now 0.17%. This is ridiculously slow and completely nonsense. Just imagine what its gonna be when the blockchain attain 10 millions blocks. This is a total joke! And, this is my third attempt at completing the whole blockchain. The two previous ones were stopped because I thought my computer and or Ethereum installation was something wrong. I now am confident that everything is operating normally (according to posted information and research) and that I must be submitted to this ridiculously slow installation. After the whole 8 or 9 days (I hope) of installation I will be a happy owner of a tedious Ethereum blockchain. 

Just be patient guys!

[benthach]

for a decent connection or a decent streaming video connection,

in 5 more years you will need 5tb hard drive and a few months to download eth blockchain.
in 50 years you will need 1petabyte and 1 year to download eth blockchain.

or just using an unsafe, choked, clogged third party lite client which can disappearing with all your eth.

[dennyd999]

So I downloaded the Ethereum-Wallet(MIST) because I want to get into altcoins as well as Bitcoin.

When I started the Wallet, it started downloading the Ethereum Blockchain. This is more then
24h ago at it seems the closer I get to finish downloading the whole thing the slower the download
gets.

I mean it's getting ridiciulous with this massive blockchain downloads and the wiaitng time,
especially because I download around 15GB so far. 15GB I could download in less than an hour
so why does this take so long with these blockchains I thought its like a p2p download,

Shouldn't it be pretty fast?


And o another note the number of total Blocks seem to be changing while downloading. I wouldn't
have been surprised if it would grow bigger because of more transactions in the blockchain etc.

but it is jumping frim 1,480,000ish to 1,580,000ish Blocks... back and forth...

I'm relatively new to the cryptocoin-world so forgive me if some of these questions seem ignorant or naive.

Thanks!
BTC Gambler

Just wait Metropolis update protocol and grab your light client afterall

[metalbean]

hi guys,

I've been syncing for ~7 hours.

Here's a screenshot:



Two questions:

1. Is it normal to only have 2-3 peers connected?
2. why is the chain structure percentage progress counted backwards?

[jackbox]

hi guys,

I've been syncing for ~7 hours.

Here's a screenshot:



Two questions:

1. Is it normal to only have 2-3 peers connected?
2. why is the chain structure percentage progress counted backwards?

Taking several days to get the entire blockchain is normal. Just be patient.

[rdnkjdi]

You need to download Geth (or locate it in your Mist installation).  

Navigate to the folder with Geth in the command line line.

geth removedb (to remove partial blockchain).
geth --fast --cache=1024 (basically trims most of the data you don't need - should take 3 - 6 hours to sync).

[hdasd]

it's better to use a online wallet!
download the Ethereum Blockchain should be 2 days
lol

[xbiv2]

So I downloaded the Ethereum-Wallet(MIST) because I want to get into altcoins as well as Bitcoin.

When I started the Wallet, it started downloading the Ethereum Blockchain. This is more then
24h ago at it seems the closer I get to finish downloading the whole thing the slower the download
gets.

I mean it's getting ridiciulous with this massive blockchain downloads and the wiaitng time,
especially because I download around 15GB so far. 15GB I could download in less than an hour
so why does this take so long with these blockchains I thought its like a p2p download,

Shouldn't it be pretty fast?


And o another note the number of total Blocks seem to be changing while downloading. I wouldn't
have been surprised if it would grow bigger because of more transactions in the blockchain etc.

but it is jumping frim 1,480,000ish to 1,580,000ish Blocks... back and forth...

I'm relatively new to the cryptocoin-world so forgive me if some of these questions seem ignorant or naive.

Thanks!
BTC Gambler

Ethereum will die before you finish

[prosokeslo]

I haven't tried downloading one for myself before, but from what I have seen and read previously, I think that it is only normal for this to happen. It is normal for it to be quite slow and what's not. just be patient. Go get some sleep, or do something else, and I bet the download would be completed by the time you are back.