Migration process stopped halfway through. Now what?

Yesterday I tried to use Migration Assistant to transfer files from our old PC to our new iMac. It said it would be 36 hours and that time varied throughout the day. That's fine, I understand that happens. But I woke up this morning and the Mac was stuck at 25 hours remaining and said it was trying to find the PC, which had disconnected. Our PC is an absolute disaster (hence the new computer). It had frozen and I couldn't get it to do anything. So I restarted it and tried to open migration assistant, which it said was invalid or something. So I downloaded it again. Now it's waiting for the Mac to connect, which it did not do automatically. So I clicked the only option available on the Mac: "cancel".
I'm so frustrated! I can't find any of the stuff that was presumably transferred on the Mac. Do I just start over? I would rather use an Ethernet cable, but our Mac doesn't have an Ethernet connection. Is there any other way to do this? I worry that our stupid PC won't be able to function properly for a long enough stretch to complete the transfer. And are there a ton of files floating around on the Mac somewhere? We're brand new to Mac, so I don't even know where to look. I can tell you that there is not a new account on the Mac. I checked.

It's worth looking in /Users to see if any were partially created (seems unlikely but it's worth checking). Use the Finder's Go menu > Computer, then select the boot disk (probably called Macintosh HD). The Users folder should be inside there - all user home folders will exist in Users by default.
Do you have an external disk to make a full backup of the PC?
If the PC is on it's 'last legs' you should probably back it up, migrating a system that cannot stay running reliably is going to be a big problem if you are using slow wifi to migrate. Personally I avoid wifi when moving large quantities of data, it can be too flaky to complete successfully - interference & other users can affect wifi.
If you make a full backup copy you can then connect the backup directly to the Mac & either manually transfer files, or try Migration Assistant again. Ideally it would be a USB disk or something both machines support.
Another option is to buy an ethernet adapter…
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC704ZM/A/apple-usb-ethernet-adapter
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD463ZM/A/thunderbolt-to-gigabit-ethernet-adap ter?fnode=51
That can be helpful if you need to use wired connections a lot, but it may be silly to buy for this one task.

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