Migration is taking forever

I'm transferring my data from my mac to macbook air and it it seem to be taking a really long time, at one stage it was down to 4 minutes, but then it went back up to 2hrs and now its stuck on less than a minute remaining, what on earth is happening???? it shouldn't be the the wi-fi because i'm using it on my phone just fine...

Ooooh. Using wi-fi for a migration is an exercise in masochism to say the least. I can easily imaginine it taking many, many hours. You really should have used a Time Machine Backup from the other Mac and done this over USB.

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