<p>It all depends on your hardware, mostly CPU and network connection (yours and your peers), but on most newer hardware you should be able to sync it within a day right now.</p>

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2021-05-18T20:57:35.570Z
2021-05-18T20:57:35.570Z
Marek Mahut - StakeNuts
<p>As you also asked for a wallet, also note that after your local full node fetched and verified all blocks from the network, your wallet software (Daedalus) may has to restore an existing wallet, and so walk through the whole UTXO history (all blocks)
The more wallets you restore/update the same time the longer it will take</p>

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2021-05-25T17:46:50.443Z
2021-05-25T17:46:50.443Z
Markus - CLIO1
<p>Also can be factor that how many relay nodes the wallet connects to. Right now by default that is only one node - the IOHK server. and that can sometimes not enough since it can be overloaded because lot of wallets can connect to that server simultaneously.
This limitation will be solved by the p2p node discovery will be introduced later this year..
btw, here is a workaround how to define more relays for the wallet:
<a href="https://forum.cardano.org/t/workaround-to-fix-daedalus-connecting-to-network-and-syncing-issue/59780?u=laplasz" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://forum.cardano.org/t/workaround-to-fix-daedalus-connecting-to-network-and-syncing-issue/59780?u=laplasz</a></p>

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2021-05-25T22:14:53.573Z
Note that IOHK is running several nodes and you are not connecting to only one.
Marek Mahut - StakeNuts
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2021-05-25T22:25:03.917Z
@MarekMahut-StakeNuts the topology file of the wallet contains only 1 address, so the node will establish a connection only with that address.
HiB
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2021-05-25T22:35:18.257Z
That one addresses resolves to a lot of different nodes. Also, `cardano-node` topology specifies the valency of this address. In other words, it specifies to how many nodes it should connect to from the specified hostname.
Marek Mahut - StakeNuts
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2021-05-25T22:39:53.397Z
the valency is 1 for the default hostname. Yes, it can be different IP, but only 1 connection will established.
HiB
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2021-05-25T21:26:07.633Z
2021-05-25T21:26:07.633Z
HiB
<p>How long does it take to sync (download the blockchain) to a Daedalus Wallet or node. What factors does this depend on (download bandwidth, size of blockchain, upload bandwidth of the source (node))?</p>

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How long does it take to sync a node or a Daedalus wallet? What factors does it depend on?
# How long does it take to sync a node or a Daedalus wallet? What factors does it depend on?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-05-18)

How long does it take to sync (download the blockchain) to a Daedalus Wallet or node. What factors does this depend on (download bandwidth, size of blockchain, upload bandwidth of the source (node))?

**Tags:** wallet, daedalus, node, syncing

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## 3 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2021-05-18. Score: 3

It all depends on your hardware, mostly CPU and network connection (yours and your peers), but on most newer hardware you should be able to sync it within a day right now.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2021-05-25. Score: 1

As you also asked for a wallet, also note that after your local full node fetched and verified all blocks from the network, your wallet software (Daedalus) may has to restore an existing wallet, and so walk through the whole UTXO history (all blocks)
The more wallets you restore/update the same time the longer it will take


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### Answer by username_3 on 2021-05-25. Score: 0

Also can be factor that how many relay nodes the wallet connects to. Right now by default that is only one node - the IOHK server. and that can sometimes not enough since it can be overloaded because lot of wallets can connect to that server simultaneously.
This limitation will be solved by the p2p node discovery will be introduced later this year..
btw, here is a workaround how to define more relays for the wallet:
<https://forum.cardano.org/t/workaround-to-fix-daedalus-connecting-to-network-and-syncing-issue/59780?u=laplasz>

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Note that IOHK is running several nodes and you are not connecting to only one.  
> **username_3**: @MarekMahut-StakeNuts the topology file of the wallet contains only 1 address, so the node will establish a connection only with that address.  
> **username_1**: That one addresses resolves to a lot of different nodes. Also, `cardano-node` topology specifies the valency of this address. In other words, it specifies to how many nodes it should connect to from the specified hostname.  
> **username_3**: the valency is 1 for the default hostname. Yes, it can be different IP, but only 1 connection will established.  

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