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114 Wi-Fi and NFC

It’s saying “This new camera can do Wi-Fi. Do you want to configure
automatic Wi-Fi importing?” Go ahead and hit “Custom” and then “Next”.
Then you’ll see Figure 4-4b, asking that you Set the current computer to be
the defacto Wi-Fi recipient. (You can’t have more than one machine
configured to receive Wi-Fi downloads. So if you have a desktop and a
laptop that could work, you have to choose only one.) Choose the “Set”
button then hit “Next”.

TIP 1: Your Wi-Fi access point must support WEP, WPA or WPA2 encryption
standards (most do) in order for the WPS Push function to work.

TIP 2: The access point also has to have its “Beacon” set to ON in order for your
camera to find it.

TIP 3: You can’t use the home router connection to send pictures to Facebook or
Twitter. For that you’ll have to use a competing Wi-Fi solution called Eye-Fi
(which the camera supports – see Section 9.6).

TIP 4: MENU  1  Airplane Mode must be OFF in order for any Wi-Fi
feature to work.

Next you get an unintuitive Windows Firewall setting screen, which is
essentially telling you that it’s unwise to do this Wi-Fi upload thing at
Starbuck’s (or other public hot spots) because it opens your computer up to
potential security threats. So make sure you’re doing this just on your
home network (check the “Private or domain networks” box and leave the
“Public Networks” box unchecked) and hit “Next”. Then there should be a
Windows “Are you sure you want to do this?” confirmation screen (say
Yes) and then finally you hit “Finish”. Should you ever need to bring up
that “Configure Wi-Fi screen” again, hook up the camera via USB, select
the camera supporting the Wi-Fi function from [Cameras and media], and
then click on [Wi-Fi Import Settings] on the right-hand side.

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