Mac Air Migration

I just picked up my 80 gig Mac Air from the Apple Store and am having some issues with migration. I bought the usb to ethernet adaptor because I thought that would be quicker than wireless migration. I have about 40 gig to transfer onto the mac air. I am doing an ethernet migration and is says it has 17 hrs and 12 min left. Should it take this long for an ethernet migration for 40 gig? The only thing I can think of is that on my intel macbook that I am migrating from I did not turn off the wireless, so do you think i can still be trying to communicate with the router? What happens if I just power of both macs and stop the migration? Thanks

this is a solution. Very many migrations fail, be it wireless or over ethernet. It seems that migrations from a 10.5.2 Mac work better while from Panther or Tiger is is rather "iffy". This is my list of steps which has worked every time but needs a hard drive with USB 2 and optionally Firewire. Here we go:
Prepare the source Mac, cleaning caches etc. with Cocktail. (Pilot Mode all options, resatart)
Install a fresh copy of SuperDuper 2.5 on the source Mac
Connect an external drive with Firewire/USB capability
Run SuperDuper, erasing the external drive and making a full clone.
Re-start the source Mac from the fresh clone and slim down the system so it fits nicely on the small drive of the Air.
Shut down the source Mac and prepare the USB cable for connecting to the Air
Start up the Air in the account you made when starting up the first time and with all system updates in place and connect the USB cable. The drive will show up after a while.
Open the Migration Assistant and choose the method “From a Time Machine backup or other disk”
Choose the System of your source Mac, copied to the external drive
Choose your Account to import and the Applications etc. If there is not enough space back to step 5...
Sit back and wait. This can be very long and the “thermometer” and time estimate make not always great sense.
Restart Air and set the log in to log into your migrated account and start using it!

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