Yes, rumor has it that ethernet is slightly faster than USB at the current time. I don't know which is more reliable. I've heard of people who got synch errors via ethernet as well as USB.

Ethernet is nominally slightly faster than USB, although in practice I only get about 300Kbytes/sec over Ethernet this is slower than jwtadmin gets over USB but then I don't have such an "ass of iron" PC...

Personally I think Ethernet's more reliable than USB, although that's probably because I'm a bit of a luddite at heart and don't trust this fancy new USB stuff . If TCP/IP were broken, people would have noticed by now...

Peter