ICloud Photo Backup is unbearably slow...

Question

I just signed up to increase my cloud storage plan to 500GB so that I could take advantage of the new iCloud Photo Backup service; however, once I enabled it on my Mac I noticed the upload speed was atrociously slow (like dial-up speed). I have FIOS 75/75 Mbps and it's barely making a dent on my bandwidth when I monitor it through my router. Given my photo library is almost 300GB is there another or better way to get this uploaded for the initial backup?

Answer 1

1 - that depends on what setting you have - MyPhotoStream photos are on the device that posted them and in iCloud and are only saved for 30 days in iCloud - If you have your Mac set to automatically import photos form MyPhotoStream then when iPhoto is running the photos are imported into iPhoto events names for the month they are imported - once a photo is in an event it is saved until you delete it from iPhpoto
2 - Not sure wha you mean by safely delete on the phone
or more iCloud info see https://www.apple.com/support/icloud/
and as to your post title - the iCloud backup of your phone is not involved in any way with PhotoStreams nor is it an archive - it is simply a backup of everything on the phone at a point in time and it totally replaces on th next backup - and there is no ability to selectively restore from it
Basically iphoto and icloud are simple - iPhoto does what you tell it to in the preferences - MyPhotoStream is a short term way of sharing photos  between devices using a single Apple ID - SharedPhotoStreams are for sharing photos on  permanent  basis between  list of selected  people
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