I downloaded the compressed blockchain from
Here, the site itself is (was?) slow though. After decompressing the archive and copying the blockchain file to "AntshareCore" it synchronizes the last remaining blocks. I was set after about 3 hours (blockchain download and final sync. included). You may have better luck though.
If you are going to download the blockchain archive then don't run the wallet before you have copied it, else it does not work and you have to delete some or other folder and try again.