Cingular Go Phone: Eye-Fi Connect X2 4 GB Class 6 SDHC Wireless Flash Memory Card EYE-FI-4CN Review

Product works exactly as advertised, and is very convenient to have and I'm glad I bought it.It's easy to configure and exceptionally easy to use.

But I have two gripes about issues that I didn't discover until after I got it (but which are well-documented on Eye-Fi's website):

1) With my camera (a Nikon D40), the camera won't leave the power on to the card long enough after a picture is taken, so the pictures don't get uploaded.The workaround is easy - turn the camera off and back on.But it's annoying to have to remember to do that, because that's the point of the card - to not have to think about it.(Of course, this is really Nikon's fault, not Eye-Fi's, but it affects me nonetheless.)

2) The Eye-Fi has a feature that lets it upload both to a home computer and to a website (like Flickr or SmugMug).I knew that the Eye-Fi supported doing the uploads also to an FTP site, and I planned on using that feature to let it upload pictures to my home web server from anywhere I could get a wi-fi connection.It turned out that there were a number of problems with that plan:

a) It only uses "FTPS" while "SFTP" would have been much easier for me to set up, and much more secure

b) The pictures all go through Eye-Fi's servers before going to the FTP site, which I didn't realize (and this part isn't especially well documented), and I'm not OK with that

c) It takes a long time for the pictures to actually make it from the card to Eye-Fi to the FTP server, so it was very hard to trust that the system was working reliably

d) There's no way to tell the Eye-Fi to then NOT upload the pictures via my home wifi, if they were uploaded via FTP.

So I just don't use the "upload via FTP" feature, and that's fine.

So like I said, it's a good product that does what it says, so if you just want it to do the base things, go for it!On the other hand, if you have a D40, or you want to use it to upload to a home FTP site, consider this review before doing so.

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Product Description:
Eye-Fi Connect X2 Automatically transfer photos & videos from your camera to your computer or favorite website. The Eye-Fi Connect X2 offers Class 6 speed enhanced by 802.11n wireless capabilities. Effortlessly free up space after media is safely delivered when using Endless Memory Mode. Get the 4GB Eye-Fi Connect X2 SDHC memory card.

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