Well I use a extender but yes its connected through ethernet. Wifi would only get me about 100MB/s 

Thinking more about this. Have you tried connecting the machine directly to the home router? Wifi can be a bottleneck.

richnost

Hope I can get some more out of that, will look into it. 

Your bandwidth and cache allocated in the bitcoin.conf might also be a factor.

I m guessing the main thing to upgrade here would be the CPU because the SSD is a brand new one.

I m running it on a i5 6500 but you are right the bigger the blockchain/blocksize gets the longer it would take you to validate all of it.

bitcoin

Quick question to whoever has a full node running

LIGHT21

I m guessing the main thing to upgrade here would be the CPU because the SSD is a brand new one. 
I m running it on a i5 6500 but you are right the bigger the blockchain/blocksize gets the longer it would take you to validate all of it. 
