Photo stream not updating in iPhoto

Photos that I take on my iPhone 4 are showing up in the Photo Stream on that device and on my iPad but not in iPhoto, at least not for a long time (hours or days). Quitting and restarting iPhoto doesn't help. Yes, Photo Stream is turned on in iPhoto preferences, with automatic uploading enabled. Any clue how to force it to show all my recent photos?

I was able to force a download of my photostream by disabling Automatic Import and Automatic Upload in Preferences>Photostream.

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Hello BrJL,
Thank you for contacting Apple Support Communities.
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Hello everyone,
I'm running an iMac, iPhone and iPad, and have photo stream set up between them. I took some photos on my iPad, and set up a stream (to the best of my ability anyway - this is all abit new to me). The photos went to my iPhone easily enough, but I had to go into Tunes to look for them on my iPad. I asked iTunes to sync they did finally appear in iPhoto on my Mac.
I then straightend and cropped them in iPhoto - these were clearly flagged up as being in Photo Stream - but this hasn't updated the photos on either my iPad or iPhone. Is it supposed to? I thought that's how the cloud worked? I have all boxes ticked in iCloud in iPhoto preferences.
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Many thanks in advance.

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Photostream is still very, very slow which is a little disappointing.. I have a very fast 100mbps down and 5mbps up Cable Internet connection so there is no problem there.
The main problem tha I have is the iPhoto seems to not want to update the Photostream. The photos have been slow to appear on ATV 2 and the iPad but have not appeared in iPhoto at all.
Any thoughts or tips?
Thanks in advance.

Forgive the obvious questions, but you don't say what you've tried.
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Hi MacTeacher,
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3989
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