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

I guess the author of the manual (who had very little time to put together the Mk.2 version) was being a little too literal. USB is faster than Ethernet as it is 11Mbit compared with 10Mbit. Synchronisation under TCP/IP is, however, a lot faster because the protocol stack is more efficient.

In theory we'll eventually get Ethernet synchronisation even faster, as we can drop a lot of our own sequencing and error control since this is already present in TCP/IP.

Rob