Using Wi-Fi to upload images from shoot location to a remote computer

A friend told me that it was possible on the 5D II to somehow activate wi-fi (or bluetooth) or get an accessory that allowed you to upload images directly from your camera to a remote computer anywhere in the world via bluetooth. RAW files or jpegs. I've never heard of that being possible before. I was theorizing that if it were, you could shoot endlessly on a few memory cards and not have to worry so much about corruption or losing them in the field. Does anyone know anything about this?

Are you talking about this item?
WFT-E4 II

I have the wft-e2 for my 1DIII and I'm using it in my studio all the time.

Yes that's it, thank you..perfect.
Does it have an unlimited range? As in I could be 1500 kms into the wilderness and transfer my images back to my studio's laptop without worry? Or an ftp server?

You need to be within 50 to 150ft of a Wifi access point (depending on the quality of the AP). Then after it can go a far as your network goes. If you are on the internet it could be worldwide, however the speed of your distant link will be the bottleneck of your system.

Also you can do full remote capture only on p2p (then probably not over the internet), limited remote capture via http (possible over the internet if you configured your router properly) and only file transfer via ftp.

bugger..

Karl Johnston wrote in post #10307956
A friend told me that it was possible...

clearly your friend didn't tell you the whole story.

basically imagine you have a laptop with a wireless card in it, now you know what it can do and the limitations are. w/o some sort of wifi hotspot near by, it's not much it can do.

but at least free wifi hotspots are not that hard to come by.

they are in the arctic

hahaha... just stop by Starbucks and upload Karl... duh!!

Nothing to it (that can't be managed by suitable application of large amounts of money, anyhow). Use the WFT-E4 to send the photos to your laptop which is connected by satellite phone to the Internet and handles the uploading to the remote location. Not cheap, not terribly easy, but then nothing (except dying) really is in the Arctic.