Long back-up times to iCloud

On the first back-up to iCloud, my iPad1 took over 11 hours to complete. It wasn't backing up successfully to iTunes before I upgraded, but I was hoping iOS 5 would cure it. Is this normal, or should I panic?

I'm getting the same thing with my iPhone and my iPad. It's just stupid that anything could take 11 hours or more - especially since, you know, I actually carry these things with me, and use them, and stuff. I can't just park them somewhere for a day and wait on Apple's manky servers to decide to let me finish my backups.
iCloud backup is absolutely worthless.

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