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i have been trying do back up on icloud for 3 days and it has not finished yet it keeps adding hours to back up time .....please help

difficultly in icould back up ....been 3 days now and it keeps adding hours to time to be completed ....iphoneS

iPhone 4S, Windows 7

Posted on Jan 24, 2013 10:04 AM

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Jan 24, 2013 10:10 AM in response to cynthia266

Welcome to the Apple Community.


The first back up to iCloud may take some considerable time. Just how long isn't really possible to say without knowing how much is in your back up and your connection speed.


What many people don't realise is that upload speeds are often significantly less than download speeds, so for example a user may have a download speed of 40 Mbps, but only 1 Mbps for uploading. As a rough guide it will take around 2 ¼ hours to upload 1 GB of data at 1 Mbps.


It sounds as though you have quite a slow network.

i have been trying do back up on icloud for 3 days and it has not finished yet it keeps adding hours to back up time .....please help

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