How to activate IPAD after updating to ios5

I updated to IOS5 and my ipad ( 3g+wii) is not able to activate. please advice how to activate the following messgae is displayed ' it takes upto 3 minutes to activate your ipad' and later error message is displayed 'activation server is unavaiable'

Did you go back to the post that you created?
https://discussions.apple.com/message/20460215#20460215
You are responding to a discussion from February and chances are that the OP has moved on and turned off email notifications and will never know that you responded.

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