Fastest way to trabsfer files

I have many gb's of data on an ibook. I need to transfer these to a windows laptop.
What is the best way?
1. Transferring across wireless gets nowhere near the 54mbps it's supposed to. Transfering 10gb's would take hours.
2. I formatted an external 20gb drive as HFS+ and saved the data on that but vista won't even recognise the hfs+ drive.
3. I formatted a 500gb external drive as NTFS and the mac recognises it but surprise surprise won't write to it.
Is there any other way to transfer many gb's of data fast? I.e. maybe using an ethernet cable? Does anyone know how? Gigabit ethernet should be fast.
I could just copy all the stuff off the 20gb HFS+ volume to the 120gb hd of the iBook and format the 20gb external drive as fat32, both mac and windows can read and write to that I think. But then I have a 4gb file limit and it's a hassle. Does anyone know another way? Ethernet?

Gigabit ethernet should be fast.
Gigabit Ethernet would be fast if the iBook had Gigabit. The iBook G4 has 10/100 Base-T Ethernet, not 1000.
...and format the 20gb external drive as fat32, both mac and windows can read and write to that I think. But then I have a 4gb file limit and it's a hassle.
How many files do you have that are bigger than 4GB? Some ripped DVD images maybe? Why not skip those files and re-rip your DVDs on the Windows computer? FAT32 would probably be the best route until Microsoft decides to open the NTFS standard so other companies can work with it.
-Doug

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