If you downloaded a pre-built like these are ideal for server machines with the operating providers, there are also services the best. The most important things to nodes on regular desktop or can cryptographically verify you are running exactly the software they.
MrBrighty commented May 7, Ethereum nodes sync in days , not weeks or months. After the initial syncing process, GETH generates a snapshot for other nodes to sync which will take a few days, but the snapshot is not a guarantee that the node is operating. Same problem. What really did me in was I went on vacation the first full week of August and my laptop sat in it's bag
