I am not sure why you were experiencing such lethargic transfer rates. This is not typical or acceptable performance. I am aware of many photographers that are using the Eye-Fi Card in the studio to review images and make adjustments.

The Eye-Fi Card is not limited to uploading to the web. For a studio it would be best to use “local” or “upload to computer only” mode. Thus avoiding any web uploading bandwidth issues. In “local” mode the Eye-Fi Card transfers the images to your computer over your WiFi through your router.

To set your Eye-Fi Card to upload to your computer only, just log into the Eye-Fi Manger, go to the settings tab and choose “Upload to Web” and choose “Do not share photos online”.

Give that a try, I am confident you will see an improvement.

Thanks for the comment and the article. I’m a believer in shooting RAW, but don’t do it on my S3 because the RAW files are huge, 25+MB, and the card writer is slow. So I shoot JPEG and don’t have the option of a smaller JPEG.

I’ll tried to figure out the local upload option. I seems I have that configured, but it still seems to upload and then download to the computer.

Ron

I more or less agree with these comments (I assume you were shooting large/fine JPEG?), but see http://www.ikontools.com/reviews/eyefi - it can be made to work reasonably well.

You could set the camera to shoot RAW and small/basic JPEG - that way, only the small JPEGs would be transmitted for viewing and you can transfer the RAWs later. Alternatively, you could use something like a D3 and write just small basic JPEGs to the second slot, which would contain the Eye-Fi.

If you’re finding range a problem, I use a pocket router (D-Link DWL-G730AP) and a battery pack, both in my pocket, to “bridge” a connection between the Eye-Fi and my main router. That way, signal strength remains high. I’ll probably write an article on that soon…

Regards,
Jon