External hard drive via ethernet ok?

I've been looking for an external hard drive to attach to my g4 450mhz tower (yeah, it's eight years old this month). I need to download files (photographs, illustrator files, and indesign files), fonts, etc. from my computer and bring them with me to New York.
Today, I saw this iomega 500gb drive with ethernet and usb 2 and was wondering if this would work for me and how reliable ethernet is to transfer files...
My concern is with getting something that will hook up to my old tower, and then I'll need to attach it to a new Macbook Pro in NY to download my files.
Good solution? Bad? It's 159 euros...
It's just the first time I see ethernet as a connect possibility...you know it's usually sata, firewire and usb...
I guess the usb 2 would be compatible with my old usb port...yes? no? but be slow as ****. Then I thought maybe cause it has ethernet that might do me good...
thanks for any advice/suggestions...

I have a 733 G4 and it doesn't support USB2 which was not finalized until 2001 and your machine is probably older but like mine has only USB old and Firewire400 support. I think the easiest most compatible solution for you would be an external Firewire400 drive, which is about the same speed as USB2 and a lot easier to deal with than an ethernet drive, and probably cheaper. Also, the FW400 drive will plug right in to the MBPro which has a FW400 port right next to the FW800 port. I know I have a FW800 drive that has all the other ports on the back of the drive, so you can plug in a USB2 or FW400 or another FW800 and still only be using one port on the MBPro. Check out Other World Computing for some ideas.

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