My wallet got stuck connecting to network a couple of times but it was easily sorted by deleting a file called ‘open.lock’. It’s fine now. I’m sure that when you get it sorted you’ll like it.
With regard to how long it takes to sync, I hadn’t started mine for 5 days and it took 5 minutes to both connect to the network and sync blocks. I didn’t think that was too bad.
The link below has the fix I’ve used, there’s a fix for windows and one for mac. Like I said I just locate and delete a file called open.lock and that’s on the mac. *** Note, you have to click on the link to see it ***