A receiving device receives, using wireless communication, (i) a connect packet for establishing a communication connection (9,600 bps) and (ii) a data packet which contains transfer data and whose communication speed (for example, 4 Mbps) is higher than that of the connect packet. The receiving device includes: an error status judging section for judging, when a reception status satisfies a predetermined first reception failure pattern, that a reception of the connect packet has failed; and a cause-of-error output section for, when the reception failure of the connect packet has occurred, outputting cause information, indicating the cause of the reception failure, to a user interface. Therefore, even if an error has occurred in the data transfer, the user can easily recognize an appropriate solution for the receiving device.