Time to Migrate to new Mac

I have just bought a MacPro and want to migrate from my PowerMac. Plugging in with a Firewire 800 says the migration is going to take 20 hours. I also have Gig ethernet but haven't connected that yet. Would Gig Ethernet be quicker?

I did a migration a few weeks ago and as I recall it initially estimated some incredibly long amount of time it would take, so I started it and did some paper work, checking on the transfer once in a while. The time exponentially decreased, it showed something like 10 hours then 5, then 3, in the first 20 minutes or so, as I remember. I think my entire time was about an hour and 20 minutes for about 120 GB.

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