No block source available

[bit4bit]

Thanks for the help, but nothing works.  I've added all kind of nodes that were posted in the forum, but it won't work either way.  Right now I feel like giving up as I had various problems on my mac with the wallet.  Maybe I'll be buying a linux computer.  Looks like it is not really made for mac.

[fav]

http://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=912.0 look, there's a sticky!

[Amazon]

try "addnode 168.63.12.227:80 add" in the debug window.

[bit4bit]

I've been keeping my wallet open for a few days hoping that it will finish syncing.  But nothing happened and the message "no block source available" keeps showing on the bottom.  Is this normal?   Any idea what I should do to speed up the syncing process?