Blockchain download slow today ?

[mintymark]

It seems to me something odd and unusual is happening today. Is anyone else seeing this ?

My client, not run for a couple of days, version 0.5.2-beta has taken all day and not caught up. Normally it catches up very fast. It had 43 conections to other clients. I restarted, and nothing has improved. It has 14 connections.

I stress again, this is really unusual for me. Anyone else see anything strange?