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A fair few of the new posters must have all gone to the same school as they suffer from the same mistakes in both areas.
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That's been true on the net since about 1994 - the common spelling of 'weird' as 'wierd' dates from then and is entirely a net phenomenon - chat/MSN etc. is the place people learn spelling and grammar these days, as it's the only text-based medium people are exposed to.
In the words of a German friend of a my grandfather, to his primary school class - 'Don't you know the difference between a genitive and a plural?'.
Anyway, back on topic. Kits' modem has rather good statistics, online more than 99.5% of the time, SNR fine both directions, power levels spot on upstream, slightly high downstream. Need to look at it again, I need a few sample modems for some work I'm doing, so that'll be a useful one.
Harlow - yes, heard a lot about that area. Not the best.