Download of Bitcoin very slow

[rebel]

I started downloading Bitcoin and so far have 135000 blocks done.

But it's now going very slowly  - like 100 bytes/s.

I have a regular CPU  2.80GHz

How many block are there to download ?   -- So I can approximate how much time it would take at current rate   

Thanks

[rebel]

At my current rate I am downloading some 30 blocks per minute.

So how many more blocks are to be downloaded?

Or what is the approximate total to be downloaded?

[jackjack]

http://blockexplorer.com/ : 140680

[overclock22]

just let it finish then it'll be done forever.



Oooo 1 more post and and 3 hours and ill be considered to post with "the big boys", god forbid anyone have to read an amount of text they don't want to.

[NothinG]

Isn't there like 1.7Gb worth of data to download?

[kjj]

It is under 500 MB.

And unless you are getting it transmitted to you by morse code, the download time is trivial compared to the time needed to verify each transaction and block.