Not really.  You need a sharp pencil & calculator to answer your question.
You performed the transfer throught the serial port which is, in essence,
the UART.  The transfer rates for UARTS will vary from 115Kbps up to
460Kbps.  Although you can achieve rates up to 921.6Kbps, most UARTS
transfer raw data at between 230Kbps or 460Kbps.
Appreciate the fact that 1 Byte = 8 bits.  Therefore 460Kbps, (460,000 bits
per second), = 57.5KBps, (57,500 Bytes per second).  Armed with this info,
you can perform the math to answer your question.
If your going to be doing this on a regular basis, you may want to consider
throwing in a couple of network cards to cut the transfer time down as well
as achieve a lot of other additional benefits.

Hope this helps

Mike Gracewood, CET


> Decided to give the XP transfer wizard a try as I have a quantity of
> data on the old machine that I wanted on the new - not Windows
> settings, just data. No network cards in either machine so
> transferring by the serial port seemed a reasonable option.
>
> All went well, although you have to be careful to "un-tick" a lot of
> files than Windows wants to bring across. Takes a little time to set
> up and then the transfer starts.
>
> It took 3hrs 11mins to transfer 116 Mbytes of data.
> I realise the serial ports are not fast but should it really take that
> long? Have I missed something here?
>
> Would be pleased to hear comments on this.
>
> Regards
>
> Tony
> Tony Beckett - Rutland, UK

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