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User Submitted Eye-Fi Share Wireless 2 GB SD Flash Memory Card EYE-FI-2GB Reviews (cont...)Date: 2008-10-26 Works great! I bought this item along with a CF to SD converter so I could use it with my Canon Rebel XT. It works like a charm - my wife calls it 'magic'! We used to leave the pictures on the camera for months and now with the eye-fi, the pictures are instantly uploaded on my PC and to my Picasa web albums. It is awesome! Date: 2008-10-25 Would be great, if it were just hardware From a hardware standpoint this is absolutely awesome, and I love it, but sadly, this is highly software dependent, and EyeFi the company gets in the way. Hardware: robust enough; good enough speed for a DSLR, but not great: it's on par with any of the cheap but good sd cards; wifi speed is again good enough for what it does, but I doubt it ever reaches a full 5MB/s transfer, and it gets interrupted all the time, causing some images to take 3 or 4 attempts to be transferred, and others to not be transferred at all. If it worked without their draconian software, this would earn it an easy 2.5/5 stars, maybe 3/5 if the wifi was more stable. Software: this is where everything falls down. Their software is the only way to get _any_ of the features of this card. It's a combination of a local only web app and a small native applet that downloads the files and stores them. That sounds fine, BUT: It will only work if the machine it's on has internet access. Thanks to that, it will stop working if it detects there is a firmware OR a software update. Software updates happen fairly regularly. If their servers are down, or are unreachable, you can't even configure your eyefi card, much less use it (I'm experiencing that right now as I try to change the wireless password it has stored). The applet is poorly written, it crashes periodically. The web app is poorly written, it frequently stalls, misrenders important segments and it's never completely clear about what it's doing. For all you or I can tell, it may be opening up my machine to 101 security holes, or it may be uploading random thumbnails to their server for quality control. You don't know, I don't know, their docs never make it clear. Why the software is so restrictive becomes more clear when you start using the software. You see, many of the EyeFi's most attractive features are only available on a subscription basis. If you don't have a subscription, there's buttons next to each blocked function trying to get you to buy it. If EyeFi goes under, your $100 memory card is now just a plain, unimpressive 2Gig card that uses a little more battery than a normal card. They want you spend $100 on a 2gig memory card that requires you to buy a subscription to use it's features. That's just not right. If eyefi decides to release software that lets owners of the cards use their hardware in a reasonable, non restrictive fassion, then it would be an awesome, 5/5 star item. They don't seem like they will get there, so wait to buy one until some kind, bored soul publishes hacking instructions. Then we can use the hardware we legally purchased how we see fit. Again, don't bother buying it unless you really can't live without it. Date: 2008-10-20 Worthless Eye-Fo Service from the supplier was excellent. The item is worthless. Worked only once and then I was unable to get it to upload or even recognize the chip. It's a very expensive SD card reader and 2 Gig chip. Date: 2008-10-11 Eye-Fi more than capable When I bought the Eye-Fi, I was aware that you need to have a home wi-fi network to make it work. This was not the case when I discovered some folks have gotten it to work in a peer-to-peer mode using the D-Link DWL-G730AP Pocket Router. SInce the Eye-Fi is looking for a wireless router, the Pocket Router connects to the Eye-fi just fine after setup in client mode. I connected the D-Link to my laptop's LAN port and the power cord to the laptop's USB port and I was ready to go. With the current updates to the software and firmware, the transfers are speedy and reliable. I use ACDsee Photo Manager to view the picture transfers as they come over the link. I can view them automatically if you use the sync folder option in ACDsee. This is handy if I am doing a shoot. The pictures pop up almost immediately after I take them, allowing me to review the photos in full size as I take them. The only complaints that I have are the short range of the wi-fi connection... about 30-40 feet max., and the other is that only JPEG files can be transferred. All in all, I'm satisfied with the Eye-Fi. If you want to see info about the D-Link Pocket Router, see it here on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/D-Link-DWL-G730AP-Wireless-Pocket-802-11g/dp/B0002Z45DQ/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1223759894&sr=8-1 Date: 2008-09-30 Excellent concept, good product Eye-Fi card is a good product, a bit slow on transfer and consuming the batteries at an estimated 3x rate compared with a regular card (due to the long "awake" times the camera needs to stay up in order to transmit the pictures - if there was any "hand-shake" between card and camera, probably it would be intelligent enough to inform "hey, I'm transmitting, I'll let you know when you can go to sleep mode" and not waste battery). Relatively easy setup, very nice packaging (simple but smart and fancy). I'm glad I purchased it, the pictures are usually in my computer by the time I finished taking snapshots of my son.
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