In defense of WiFi...

[TheLost]

My son enjoys the free WiFi at my local McDonalds! He uses it to download larger game and software applications for his Android phone.

WiFi is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, the short attention-span generation needs to have its stuff NOW. No deferred gratification!!!

An hour or two or three is a looooooong time to go without Facebook status updates!

Derrel... Derrel... I almost want to call you old but i think we are the same age

WiFi isn't about social media! Its a tool... posting your DSLR selfy is just something you can do with the tool!

Fun fact... USB 2.0 speed is ~280Mbit/s (35 MB/s)... 802.11ac (latest WiFi) speed is ~860Mbit/s (107MB/s). At that's the spec speed for 801.11ac enabled TABLETS!! With the right hardware it can reach up to 1-7 Gbit/s!!

Why do you need USB when WiFi is faster!!

Everything is going WiFi... and its cooooooool!
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[cgipson1]

Derrel ... good question...

DPReview shows two DSLR's with Built-In Wifi Camera feature search: Digital Photography Review

and shows 18 mirrorless Camera feature search: Digital Photography Review

Guess there isn't much demand among DSLR owners... or the manufacturers would do it. Apparently more of the mirrorless types want it, or they add it to the mirrorless to help the sales....

 

[TheLost]

Well, HOW MANY d-slr cameras actually SHIP with built-in WiFi? I know about the Canon 6D, which is a full-frame camera that is, frankly, out of the price range of the vast majority of buyers--I KNOW it has built-in WIFi capability as a "stock" feature.

I'm not fully up on the specifications of every single d-slr on the market, but I know Nikon has like 13 models in current sales channels...and Canon has probably about the same number of models, and Pentax has a handful of d-slr models, and Olympus has a few cameras.

So..how MANY d-slr MODELS currently SHIP with WiFi built in?

TheLose, do you know???

Darrel,

I have used the WiFi on...
Canon 6D
Canon 70D
Sony NEX-6
Nikon D7100
Nikon D5200
Nikon D600
Nikon D800

Have you even tried it on anything?

 

[cgipson1]

My son enjoys the free WiFi at my local McDonalds! He uses it to download larger game and software applications for his Android phone.

WiFi is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, the short attention-span generation needs to have its stuff NOW. No deferred gratification!!!

An hour or two or three is a looooooong time to go without Facebook status updates!

Derrel... Derrel... I almost want to call you old but i think we are the same age

WiFi isn't about social media! Its a tool... posting your DSLR selfy is just something you can do with the tool!

Fun fact... USB 2.0 speed is ~280Mbit/s (35 MB/s)... 802.11ac (latest WiFi) speed is ~860Mbit/s (107MB/s). At that's the spec speed for 801.11ac enabled TABLETS!! With the right hardware it can reach up to 1-7 Gbit/s!!

Why do you need USB when WiFi is faster!!

Everything is going WiFi... and its cooooooool!
Meet Nest's Protect, a Smart Smoke Detector That's Actually Exciting

Don't believe everything you read... most tech today uses a single stream, not the two or three needed for faster speeds that 802.11ac is capable of.
Single link (one device) = 500 Mbit/s (current tech speeds.. )

IEEE 802.11ac is a wireless computer networking standard in the 802.11 family (which is marketed under the brand name Wi-Fi), developed in the IEEE Standards Association process,[SUP][1][/SUP] providing high-throughput wireless local area networks (WLANs) on the 5 GHz band.[SUP][1][/SUP] The standard was developed from 2011 through 2013, with final 802.11 Working Group approval and publication scheduled for early 2014.[SUP][1][/SUP] According to a study, devices with the 802.11ac specification are expected to be common by 2015 with an estimated one billion spread around the world.[SUP][2][/SUP] This specification has expected multi-station WLAN throughput of at least 1 gigabit per second and a single link throughput of at least 500 megabits per second (500 Mbit/s). This is accomplished by extending the air interface concepts embraced by 802.11n: wider RF bandwidth (up to 160 MHz), more MIMO spatial streams (up to 8), multi-user MIMO, and high-density modulation (up to 256-QAM).[SUP][3][/SUP]

IEEE 802.11ac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




From CISCO... 802.11ac: The Fifth Generation of Wi-Fi Technical White Paper* [Cisco Aironet 3600 Series] - Cisco Systems

The design constraints and economics that kept 802.11n products at one, two, or three spatial streams haven't changed much for 802.11ac, so we can expect the same kind of product availability, with first-wave 802.11ac products built around 80 MHz and delivering up to 433 Mbps (low end), 867 Mbps (midtier), or 1300 Mbps (high end) at the physical layer. Second-generation products promise still more channel bonding and spatial streams, with plausible product configurations operating at up to 3.47 Gbps.



ZDNet article on why it isn't as fast as it could be (except in a laboratory) Gigabit Wi-Fi: 802.11ac is here: Five things you need to know | ZDNet

 

[Derrel]

Okay, so according to dPreview, there are TWO digital SLR cameras that ship with WiFi installed as a standard option....

I have not tried heroin, nor MDMA, but I have read that millions of people almost can't live without them...

So, doggone it, out of all the d-slr models, only two come with WiFi....

Damn....you mean I could be updating my Facebook status wirelessly using my camera, you know, without any editing or cropping or selectivity, ....Gawd, I feel so hopelessly lost....I mean sonofabeech...I've been using Photoshop and Lightroom, and cropping and editing and selecting only the better pics...but instead I should just spew 'em directly to Facebook while on-location!!!

"Do'ah!!! I'm doing it all wrong!!!!!!!! I'm talking too much time to make my pictures look 'better'. I need to just stream them, right off the card!!!"

 

[cgipson1]

And I run Asus RT-AC66U's both at home and at work.. (one of the best 802.11ac wifi routers on the market right now) and they are not hitting much more than 400mbs (less with multiple device access) according to my Fluke!! Wired gigabit lan is still significantly faster....

 

[cgipson1]

And the projected speeds are all on the Physical layer of the OSI model (assuming you are familiar with that?)... and much slower by the time it gets to the Application layer... (which is where the advantage would be)

 

[Devinhullphoto]

Okay, so according to dPreview, there are TWO digital SLR cameras that ship with WiFi installed as a standard option.... I have not tried heroin, nor MDMA, but I have read that millions of people almost can't live without them... So, doggone it, out of all the d-slr models, only two come with WiFi.... Damn....you mean I could be updating my Facebook status wirelessly using my camera, you know, without any editing or cropping or selectivity, ....Gawd, I feel so hopelessly lost....I mean sonofabeech...I've been using Photoshop and Lightroom, and cropping and editing and selecting only the better pics...but instead I should just spew 'em directly to Facebook while on-location!!! "Do'ah!!! I'm doing it all wrong!!!!!!!! I'm talking too much time to make my pictures look 'better'. I need to just stream them, right off the card!!!"

Solve that problem by having all perfect photos.

 

[table1349]

My son enjoys the free WiFi at my local McDonalds! He uses it to download larger game and software applications for his Android phone.

WiFi is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, the short attention-span generation needs to have its stuff NOW. No deferred gratification!!!

An hour or two or three is a looooooong time to go without Facebook status updates!

Rock on dude, I like totally get what you are saying man. It's like you were reading my mind or something. It's like.....like...........

Uh....wait.....like what were we talking about? :mrgreen:

 

[Derrel]

Rock on dude, I like totally get what you are saying man. It's like you were reading my mind or something. It's like.....like...........

Uh....wait.....like what were we talking about? :mrgreen:

 

[runnah]

I looked at a new dryer that had wifi. It's a gimmick designed to sell out dated models to tech geeks who want to bore people.

 

[Derrel]

I looked at a new dryer that had wifi. It's a gimmick designed to sell out dated models to tech geeks who want to bore people.

I'm convinced I need a new blender with WiFi...I can send it my preferred ice grind settings from the living room, using my Android phone OR my iOS devices, and it can grind my ice EXACTLY the way I want it, in increments as discrete as .08 seconds per setting change!

Suuuuu-WEEEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do people realize what this new WiFi tech can DO for the advancement of the cocktail world???

 

[runnah]

I'm convinced I need a new blender with WiFi...I can send it my preferred ice grind settings from the living room, using my Android phone OR my iOS devices, and it can grind my ice EXACTLY the way I want it, in increments as discrete as .08 seconds per setting change! Suuuuu-WEEEET!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do people realize what this new WiFi tech can DO for the advancement of the cocktail world???

I asked what it was for and the sales guy said for remote access and firmware updates.

I think I will keep my old one that just dries my clothes.

 

[table1349]

This is a far better use for wifi. ReaDIYmate: Papercraft Plus WiFi Makes For Interesting New Things

 

[Bulb]

I recently bought the Canon 6D.

It's a really great camera and I'm far from pushing it to its limits, but I can't think of many practical situations where I would want to use the WiFi.

I always turn the GPS on when I'm shooting outside though. It's fun to go back and look at all of the places I've taken photos.