tz1 - Thanks for your great work. I have ordered the cables and look forward to trying this. If it works, I'll have a way to FTP vacation photos from my camera SD card through a USB reader for safekeeping on my ISP.

I see in another post that the N810 has USB 2.0. The F-F adapter says it's 1.1 but if it's just wires, that wouldn;t be enough to slow down an otherwise-2.0 connection, would it?

Have you considered adding this to the wiki article on getting into USB host mode? This site would be more useful if more stuff was in the wiki.