re: #3 - two reasons:

- The manual says USB is faster than Ethernet (why?)

but more to the point
- My cable provider uses DHCP to assign IP addresses, but different IPs on the same cable modem are often (always it seems) assigned on different 255 number subnets. So since the empeg is not in the local subnet to the desktop, Emplode does not find it.

I can't use the static IP option as my home Ethernet hubs are connected to the cable provider, and I can't find out from the empeg display what IP address it has picked up from DHCP.

... leading to to suggestion #4: let the user find the IP address assigned from the empeg UI via DHCP, and then accept that being typed in manually into Emplode to let Emplode find the device.