Fastest file transfer PC to iMac??

Pictures, Word docs, and music files are primary interest.  The iMac app via wifi transfer on home network is saying 15+ hours!
Gotta be something faster...?

a. what kind of wifi network?  802.11n or g between them?
b. just how much stuff we talking about here?  a few megabytes, 100s of gigabytes, terabytes?
If connecting over a LAN on 802.11n, you should actually be getting pretty good speeds.  Unless you have something like fibrechannel cards in both machines, why not just let it copy overnight?  Who cares how long it takes if your sleeping while it does it

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