(context post by bitcoin2paysafe)

Maybe, the hdd is full?

Yea, possibly a full disk, or a failing disk… It’s odd that even with a dedicated connection within your LAN it took that long to get that number of blocks. My 100 Mbps router funneled them from one of my PCs to another in less than 15 minutes, at the 65K+ blocks it needed.

Maybe a flakey router or internet connection? Might be worthwhile to do a speed test, or research Microsoft Security Essentials to make sure it’s not toying with Bitcoin’s ability to build the block list in some other way… not too familiar with Microsoft products I’m afraid. Undecided

Okay, I solved the problem. The solution was in topic 35

So that was responsible for keeping blocks from downloading?

The link: “Win32 CPU Cycles vs ‘Live Protection’ Engines”

For BitcoinFX, Live Protection was keeping it from getting CPU for generating coins.  You said your friend was getting 1400-1600 khash/s, so it was getting CPU.  I guess Live Protection must have been blocking some other part of the program then?