I will ALWAYS connect with Ethernet if I can. For me, it meant running a CAT6 from one end of my house 100' over the flat roof to the other end where the equipment all is. In that cabinet, coming off a separate router and all fed with Ethernet is my Hopper, Roku, Blu-Ray, HDDVD (I know, wrong guess!) and Onkyo 709 networked receiver, along with an extra cable for my laptop when needed. BTW, there can be issues with the second router - the logic of from the main router to the input of the second router does not work, and the first router needs to be connected to a "regular" Ethernet output on router #2.