HT4889 I just set up my migration from my old iMac to the new one and it says it'll take 42 hours! What's up with this?

I just set up my migration from my old iMac to the new one via wifi and it says it'll take 42 hours! What's up with this?

blackeducator wrote:
... What's up with this?
Don't migrate wirelessly unless you have a very fast wireless connection. Anything other than 5 GHz 802.11n is likely to take an unacceptable amount of time.

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