Migration assistant from MacBook Pro to iMac time too long.

Okay. I know this has been asked a number of times but I have yet to find a discussion with the time span my macs have given me. Quick story: Migration assistant from 2006-ish model MacBook Pro with snow leopard to brand new iMac (got it three days ago). The absolute only option I have been given is to transfer via wifi, regardless if thunderbolt/firewire or Ethernet is plugged in. Nothing else will come up so I am forced to do a wifi transfer. My time span is about 124 hours, which is nuts. Given, I am transferring about 500gb (I'm a recording musician). Is this normal or is there something hosing up my transfer? It is moving, but very slowly. Since last night it has moved almost a quarter of the way. Has anyone else had this long of a wait? And no, I don't have a large external hd.

Hello flyinghostie,
If you've not already, you'll need to launch Migration Assistant on both systems. The article linked below provides further information that you may find helpful.
OS X: How to migrate data from another Mac using Mountain Lion and earlier
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4889
Cheers,
Allen

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