I've told you before that I love anything wireless that makes life easier right? Well, here's a cool new product that will blow your mind. Okay, it might not blow your mind, but its still cool. I dont know why I never thought of it :) Currently, you download your pictures from your digital camera using a USB cable. Its not too hard, but does take time especially if you take a lot of pics. Anyways, if your digital camera uses an SD card, you're in luck. With the Eye-Fi Wireless SD Card, you can wirelessly transfer your pics to your computer. Of course you will need to have an existing wireless home network. But who doesnt? :) One thing that I try to do is use my wireless network for everything. Right now, I have my Tivo, Wii, and laptop connected. And later on Ill add on more wireless enabled electronics. Centralizing all of your wireless products to your computer home network makes things much easier. Not only can you control things via your computer, but it can also enable these products to be online which is really powerful. Whoa, how I digress. Anyways, back to the Eye-Fi. So from reading the reviews, it looks like it automatically syncs when the card is in range of your home network. Cool! In otherwords, you can transfer your pictures without even thinking about it. All you have to do is turn on your digital camera and be in range of your router. GENIUS!
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That has to be one of the coolest inventions out there. Any idea how much slower it would be to download pictures using this? Also, our wireless seems spotty at times, do you think I would have problems using it?
Good questions! I just did some more research on transfer speeds and it turns out that if you are using a Wireless G router which is standard nowadays, then you will be transferring almost 5 times faster than the USB cable.
USB 2.0 - 12mbps
802.11b - 11mbps
802.11g - 54mbps
To answer your second question, it depends on what you mean by "spotty". Does it mean your laptop doesnt get wireless in certain places in your house? Or does it mean that if you had your laptop in the same room as your router that you still get inconsistent internet access? In any case, I dont think you will have a problem unless it is really "spotty". But that brings about another good point. How will the user know when the transfer of pictures is complete? Do you just leave your camera on and let the camera turn off automatically or do you just stare at the windows folder (that you set up to download the pictures to)?
Off topic question:
I have a computer running on Windows XP and a newer one running on Vista (unfortunately Vista was all that was available at the store and we needed to get a new computer for my mom). I've tried several ways to sync my computers on my network for file/printer sharing but am still having trouble. I've looked up ways online and haven't found a solution to my problem. I can see my computer and the other computer on my laptop but it's a different story on the computer with Vista. Are Vista and XP compatible on networks?
John,
You're right. That is totally off topic. Wait for my free tech support question part 2, otherwise I would have to charge you for this one. j/k. But yes you can network Vista and XP. Right now, I have both my XP and Vista talking together such that I can transfer files between them as well as sharing printers ;)
Not sure if this is considered the same topic but is there a benefit in purchasing "faster" compact flash cards when photographing? Do they mean I can take more pictures in a row?
Faster flash cards relate to faster speeds in terms of reading and writing to the card. In otherwords, you might see a performance increase when viewing pics on your camera as well as taking pictures faster. So I believe it would take pictures more faster in a row. But Im also assuming that you are using a Digital SLR and not a regular digital camera. Also, you can easily find out this information from the manufacturer's web site or by googling.
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