I just got a new MacBook Pro and just migrated using Migration Assistant from a old MacBook Pro last night without any problems. I used an Firewire 800 cable and it was done over night with 290GB of data transferred.
I tried wireless Migration Assistant only once at work and it slow it limited to 54Mb/s and t saw the same errors that Jason experienced but it that AirPort Extreme Basestation was the issue which it doesn't like large and continuous traffic. I use Retrospect for backing up our MacBooks* /PowerBooks here and it exhibits the timeout issues due to large and continuous traffic through the AirPort Basestation. I haven't tried it on another wireless router/hub so I can't tell if this specific to AirPort basestations or is some wireless networking issue like radio interference, the MacBook*/PowerBook has some network card issue or something else.
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