Silence from K.E.H

It's working ok for me, just tested it. Unfortunately, the possiblities are almost as numerous as favorite film/developer combinations. One thing that has tripped me up in the past is my ISP changing the address of their DNS server. Often, this is supplied automatically, but not always.

Hi Mike,

Same experience here...I contacted KEH some time ago (via e-mail) regarding a Fuji GA645Zi they had listed on their website. No response. Well, they lost a sale. I found a better condition camera for slightly less money on Adorama's website. Guess who got the sale?

KEH is a great store, but they do things in a very idiosyncratic manner; they do not answer emails and do not provide detailed (via web or phone)descriptions of their stock. Fortunately, KEH has proven (so far) to be a very reliable dealer. While their descriptions are terse, their ratings are very conservative and very reliable. I recently purchased a few bargan grade LF lenses from them for very reasonable prices. In each case, the BGN rating was far better than the "9" or "Excellent" lenses I have bought from others.

Their shipping to Canada has greatly improved lately. Place your order and they will contact you with a couple of quotes, depending on what shipping method you choose. You can decline to order anything at that time, or make your choice. In my experience, once you've got that far, communication via email goes much more smoothly.

MTU stands for maximum Transmission Unit. It refers to largest size in bytes of a data packet transmitted over a network. It is indeed applicable to all networked computers. To adjust your MTU on Windows you need to edit your registry. On Windows XP, you need to edit:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\<<interface_name>>

where <<interface_name>> is the GUID of your interface.
The first step is to find your interface. To do this, first, start a command prompt (choose Run on your start menu. When the dialog comes up, enter cmd.exe ). Once the command prompt comes up, type ipconfig and hit enter. In the resulting display, make note of the IP Address.

Now, at that same command prompt, enter regedit.exe. This will bring up the registry editor. Notice that navigating the registry is like navigating your file system.

Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces

You will probably see more than one folder unnder Interfaces. Start looking in those folders until you find one with an IPAddress entry that matches your IP Address.
In this folder, you should see an MTU entry. double click on that entry. That will bring up a dialog to edit the entry. Click on the "Decimal" radio button, then change the Value Data to a smaller value. Click O.K. and close the registry editor.

I'm not sure if the changes take place immediately - you may need to restart your machine.

One more thing: BE VERY CAREFUL EDITING THE REGISTRY - editing the wrong value can render your system inoperable. Before you edit, check and recheck that you're editing the right location.

Also, these instructions apply to Windows XP - Windows 2000 and earlier have these values in a different place.

I hope this is helpful.

Dan

Thanks for all the replies.
Think I shall drop them a call today.Didn't realize just how many junk emails or spam hit businesses.

Mike

gr82bart said:

I rarely communicate 'cold' through e-mail with a business.

A typical business gets 100's-1000's of spam and most e-mail goes into the spam/junk mail folder. Especially if it was created in Hotmail, Yahoo, gmail, even Comcast, Rogers, etc.... Sometimes even addys from legit companies get directed into the spam/junk folder automatically.

For example I get over 200 junk mails a day! My spam/junk folder is emptied everyday and to be honest, I don't search whether an e-mail in my spam/junk folder is legit or not. I just empty the entire folder. I leave it up to the person who wants to e-mail me to call me, and only then will I put their e-mail addy into my safe list. I suspect most people do this.

I'd suggest you give them a call.

Regards, Art.

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On the one hand I really sympathise with people when get few hundreds spam messages and need lots of time to answer or fail to answer sometimes because of spam.

On the other hand, if I send them a message, and they don't answer, is it up to me to think why that happens? I write, they didn't answer, thus they don't care for me. Simple as that. Or...?

Answer? Write good old letters