Eye Fi Pro wireless card

Does anyone sucessfully use the Eye Fi Pro wireless card in an SD-to-CF adapter, and have the wireless connection properly work while inside their Canon dSLR? I can't seem to establish a wireless connection until I remove the Eye Fi from the camera and insert it into a USB power source (the SD card reader provided with the Eye Fi Pro), so I think the culprit is the brand/model of SD-to-CF adapter. I'm looking to find a known-good SD-to-CF adapter because I think the shielding of the one I have now is the problem.

I'm also interested in trying this out. So far I can only get my Eye-Fi Pro to work in SD mode via ad-hoc config.

I remember reading somewhere about a higher than usual power requirement for the card to work properly. My guess is that most card adapters only provide just enough power to read/write. The additional power requirement for the wireless module maybe too much for most adapters.

The power for the card is provided by the device the card is in and not the adapter so if it is a power issue, it would be with the device, or, in this case, the camera.

simply.blue wrote in post #9143549
I'm also interested in trying this out. So far I can only get my Eye-Fi Pro to work in SD mode via ad-hoc config.

I remember reading somewhere about a higher than usual power requirement for the card to work properly. My guess is that most card adapters only provide just enough power to read/write. The additional power requirement for the wireless module maybe too much for most adapters.

I got my Eye Fi Pro to connect to the wireless network (thru router) within my home, but only which if I removed the Eye Fi from the camera and inserted it into an SD reader provided by Eye Fi with the Eye Fi Pro (wireless transfer, not thru the USB port). I had not yet tried the ad hoc connection, although I did set it up.

Does your ad hoc connection function with the Eye Fi still in your camera? what model camera do you have? and what SD-to-CF adapter do you use?

OK, I now have the wireless link while still in my camera, connected to my wireless router at home. Now to try the wireless ad hoc connection to a laptop, to verify its operation in the Eye Fi Pro.

Yes my ad-hoc connection works without a router. I have no problem using a Eye-Fi pro card inside my Panny LX3. I've even tried it across different rooms (thru drywall). Although it was at a somewhat snail-crossing-Sahara-desert like speed

I only mentioned the power issue because the Eye-Fi card won't work with my always reliable Sandisk reader. It only works via the Eye-Fi reader. I searched around the Eye-fi forum and found out the eye-fi reader provide more "juice" than conventional reader.

I haven't tried any SD-CF adapter yet. Actually my friend (who work at Sandisk) advised me against using such adapter (something about incompatible system/file structure?!? However the "doc Brown" inside me still wants to try it out

simply.blue wrote in post #9155269
However the "doc Brown" inside me still wants to try it out

Nothing a magazine and 10 minutes in a bathroom can't fix...

Wilt, does the eye fi pro work with your 40d?

fishyone wrote in post #9197204
Wilt, does the eye fi pro work with your 40d?

I do have network access fully functioning with my 40D connected to home wireless system, and now need to find out from Eye Fi how to get the ad hoc connection completed. I thought I had ad hoc connection to laptop with my 40D, but mistaken. I have tried Eye Fi instructions published on web, but get an error message when I try to set up the Eye Fi Pro to use ad hoc network.

I am curious as to how well this contraption works for y'all, especially a connection to your laptop when out in the field (or gym!).

Let the members of the vast and unpaid research dept step forward and publish their reports when you get time.

Mike

I still cannot succeed with an adhoc wireless connection directly between the Eye Fi Pro and my Windows XP laptop. Have tried calling Eye Fi tech support, they provided a set of instructions which are different than the standard PDF on the web site, but still no luck so far. They say that setting up ad hoc with Windows XP is problematic. Anyone in POTN using WinXP laptap and has successful ad hoc network?

The home network works well enough, but I wanted to be able to shoot examples of principles within a class setting as the instructor, and have shots materialize on my laptop directly without shooting tethered, so that then I could project them for students to see.

Have you created a new network just for the Eye-fi? I had to create a new ad-hoc for the On One DSRL remote to work with the laptop. The Eye Fi may be the same.

Mark1 wrote in post #9233898
Have you created a new network just for the Eye-fi? I had to create a new ad-hoc for the On One DSRL remote to work with the laptop. The Eye Fi may be the same.

I have my home network with one name, and separately I have an ad hoc network with a different name. While my netbook can see the notebook's ad hoc network in the list of available wireless networks, when I try to add that to the ad hoc network configuration of the Eye Fi Pro, when it tries to connect and configure, it always ends up with an error message at the end of the attempt.

So then I set up an ah hoc on the netbook, tried to configure to that instead of the notebook, but same results.

Both netbook and notebook are running WinXP. And to ensure that confusion is not created by having two running ad hoc network at once, I have turned off one of them so that the Eye Fi sees only one ad hoc network when I try to configure the Eye Fi.

Try turning off the wireless home network so your notebook is only trying to talk to the ad-hoc network. It can't talk to both - it gets confused.

Jon wrote in post #9234387
Try turning off the wireless home network so your notebook is only trying to talk to the ad-hoc network. It can't talk to both - it gets confused.

I don't understand why the infrastructure wireless needs to be turned off. When you set up an ad hoc network, it's like setting up a network on a "channel" different from the infrastructure network. They both have their own SSID to identify the network you want to connect to. If you had to turn off the other network for the ad hoc network to work, then you'd have issues in the real world on location where you might have multiple people with their own laptops and wireless devices. It would be like telling everybody using PW remotes in the vicinity to stop using their PW units so that you can use yours.

Of course, you should make sure that the channel used by the ad hoc network is not the same channel used by the infrastructure network to prevent interference. The recommendation is to use a channel that is, at least, 5 channels away. So, if the infra network is on channel 11, then the ad hoc network should be on channel 6. This is for devices on the 2.4 GHz range. Setting the channel selection to Auto will work, too, although I'm not sure how much separation between channels Auto will provide.