While other member already suggestion, i'd say choose depends on partial amount of free/unused RAM. Although if you use Windows, i don't expect it'll have relative small amount of free/unused RAM.


Usually no, since it's cause by either:
1. CPU or disk bottleneck.
2. Bitcoin Core happen connect to node with slow connection speed or physically very far from where you live (which cause slower download speed).

You can try close and reopen Bitcoin Core in order connect to different full nodes, but don't expect much difference.

There's a third option: your ISP may not give you the full bandwidth.

I'm now tempted to do a full blockchain download with hourly snapshots, to see how the remaining time estimate changes.

My RAM usages is 45-50% on average. And the CPU would get up to 30-50% sometimes. So we can assume my internet speed sucks.  


No 1 is not the case for me, like I said above. I actually did tried that turning on & off. And it works but for a short amount of time.

A moment ago it was 0.07% per hour. Restarted the bitcoin core and now it's 3.00% per hour (eventually it will go down).

Miracle miracle miracle...

P.S: Contacted my isp, said they'll increase my speed but will have to wait a couple of days, as my current internet package still has some days left.

So you have upgraded your internet speed? if there are too much connections in your area it will probably slow during peak hours, the speed upgrade will be useless since your still in the same facility, specially if your box is full or loaded, but hoping that your upgrade will solve your problem.
try also to close other applications and some who runs in your background, chrome also eats alot of memory this days.

Day 3:
Forgot to keep my computer turned on overnight, still making progress though.

Progress:



You can join, but you won't get any merit for it obviously  

Hey guys, can I still join? Would install it on a PI or NAS.

Happy to be part of the community ☺️

That's okay, I'm doing it because I was curious
I'm currently at 2020-12-31 (63.38% progress). CPU-usage is around 40%, memory-usage at 23%, chainstate is 5.0 GB and bandwidth continuously varies between 0 and 100%.
System load is 2.6. iostat -dxdev/sda 5 shows disk %util around 60%, and iotop shows reading 1-3 MB/s, and writing 20-50 MB/s. Memory usage of bitcoind is 12.0%.
I'm not sure what's the current bottleneck, nothing seems to be maxed out. I think most of the idsk writes are updating chainstate. That makes it tempting to do the same on a ram drive.

Oh wow, I felt it would require a higher specification system. My system is actually higher than yours, it’s a gaming system from barely a few years back so I believe if you can do it with this specifications then I can too. The difference is just the internet speed. I’ll just start today anyways and just see how it goes.