Another way to make it go a little bit faster is to go to your "tools" section here in Peakd, run a "node benchmark" analysis, and then when you find which node is the fastest, then you apply it to your hivechain wallet as well (under the "preferences" section, it will ask you which RPC node you'd prefer to run). Good to know about the DNS preferences though too, I'll have to do that as well; every extra bit of speed means a ton lately, seeing as the big Splinterlands boom has definitely caused a strain on servers/etc (understandably so - kind of hard to prepare for a sudden boom, lol)