HT204350 migration assistant mavericks.

I am trying to migrate to a new imac using migration assistant. I connected the old machine and new via ethernet cable. When the files began to transfer, the indicator reported over 400 hours to transfer. Suspecting the files were transferring via WiFi rather than ethernet cable, after over an hour with litte change in the counter, I disconnected the WiFi source and, sure enough, the machines stopped communicating. I also noted that Migration Assistant was telling me that connecting an ethernet cable would speed things up but the cable was already connected.
  I stopped the transfer, switched off the airport and tried again, following to the letter Apple's Mavericks Migration Assistant instructions. I have been watching both machines search for each other for going on half an hour now and cannot understand why these machines are not seeing each other. Both are running Mavericks.

I noticed that the old imac's network preferences indicated that the ethernet port was "inactive". I bought a new cable, plugged the ethernet cable from the modem into the old imac to "reactivate" the port. Then reconnected the two machines via ethernet and ran Migration Assistant again and the migration went fine. I'm not sure which step caused the desired effect but that's what I did.

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