Migration Assistant fails or freezes every time

2008 iMac running Mavericks to a new iMac over ethernet connection.
I have run software update on both iMacs, I have run "repair disk" and "fix permissions" on both.
Every time i run migration assistant, it never completes. it looks like its running, and the esitmated time left begins to count down, but eventually it just stays at 2hrs remaining, or 2hrs 30 minutes remaining. And I let it run for 15 hours.
I am forced to reboot the computers to get them back, and the new iMac has NO data transferred, and the old Mac remains as is (as expected).
Also, Time Machine fails on the 2008. I have tried to run time machine to more than one firewire drive.
Not sure how to proceed.

Sounds like you've been through the ringer . After Apple replaced FW with Thunderbolt my boss tasked one of the techs and me to investigate alternatives. We both found WiFi useless for anything more than a couple GB of data and even then we experienced too many failures to recommend it. Theoretically migrating with Ethernet should be a good choice but once again we experienced failures we couldn't explain. That led us to recommend users back up via clone or TimeMachine to an external drive and migrate using the external drive.
That should have ended the matter but I've since added a qualifier to that recommendation; a USB external drive may be your best option. We've always known that some FW chipsets were flaky but an additional layer of flakiness has been added with the Thunderbolt/FireWire adaptor.

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