USB options ...

What is the current consensus on the various USB motion control options?
While I've not had any problem with parallel port via Mach3, the move to
64bit versions of windows block that path, and while the ITX boxes I've
been using will run later versions of 32 bit windows, XP was/is still
the best base for non-net connected systems?

I'd been seriously considering a USB option, but it seems a number of
these are now being phased out because of 'the susceptibility of the USB
port to interference'. It seems that Ethernet is now the preferred
channel to a co-processor motion control system?

The CNCUSB board I've been running from a recycled laptop seems to work
without any problem and I was about to roll that out on the Taig Mills
I've just had delivered, but the board is no longer available.

Is now the time to make a concerted effort and move to LinuxCNC or cough
up the extra for an Ethernet option?

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