ICloud photo library taking an eternity to upload.

Is anyone else experiencing the new iCloud Photo Library taking an unbelievable amount of time to upload photos from their Mac? Granted, I've got a lot of photos to upload - somewhere around 4000 -- but so far I've been uploading my pics to iCloud for well into 4-hours and the number of photos "uploading" (according to my iMac's iCloud "ticker") hasn't changed in over 2-hours. It's been stuck on the same number of photos "uploading" for these last 2-hours and shows no progress at all since then. Anyone have a clue as to what gives?

Csound,
I got over 10.000 photo's till now saved at dropbox. It's over 100 Gb. Point is that the upload in dropbox is within the range of a few (2-3) hours while at iCloud it took me more than 24 hours until only 5-6 Gb is uploaded. Same computer same network and a glass fiber provider with really fast internet. So iCloud will cost me weeks before photos are synced.
Like I said, by far the worst cloud service. It is like being back at the 14k4 modem era. This isn't Apple standard or is it the new standard?

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