HT4796 MIgration loses connection to iMac

Migration assistant is converting data frmo my windows laptop to a new iMac. with 26 hours of conversion to go, It says Migration Assistant is trying to reconnect to the mac. SHould I cancel or let it continue. Both are wireless on the same network

I made the mistake of replacing my old 2nd generation AppleTV (the big ones with hard-drive inside) with a brand new one and I got exactly the same issue. However the problem is not on the mac side but on the AppleTV side, this happens only when the AppleTV goes to sleep (preventing my Mac Pro server to go to sleep makes no difference) and the only fix is to restart the AppleTV....Back to the rock-solid and user's media-friendly 2nd gen AppleTV.

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