Why are my contacts taking so long to sync to icloud from my imac

I have allowed my iMac to remain on and Contacts remains "actively" syncing to iCloud, but the number of contacts is still far apart on iCloud (2037) Contacts on iMac 3848).  This has been going on for several days.
Plus the speed of the iMac has dramatically slowed and it appears to go into sleep mode after a very short period of time.

Not sure what you are downloading, but it isn't a 4MB music file within 2 seconds.
Even if you could get a true 56K speed (which does not exist) for dial-up, each 4MB file would take you 10 minutes to download.
Most 56K modems are limited to around 40-50K at their fastest.
Your times for the 11 songs seems about right.
-- 11 songs @ an average of 3 minutes in length & 1MB/min = 33 MB total to download
-- 33MB @ 56K = 1h23m
-- 33MB @ 34K = 2h17m
You are probably getting between 30K and 42K of real download speed from the modem.

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