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- From: bubba@insync.net (Bill Garfield)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: I think Ma Bell is about to screw us all....
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 13:05:02 GMT
- Organization: Associated Technical Consultants
- Message-ID: <31529eee.1344870@news.insync.net>
- References: <4idb3d$osq@gryphon.phoenix.net> <leonard.827493769@qiclab>
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- On 22 Mar 1996 03:26:26 -0800, leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard
- Erickson) wrote:
-
- >jwray@phoenix,net writes:
-
- >>More than once I was told that the phone co. only guaranteed 2400 baud
-
- >Get this in writing, and be sure it says *baud*.
- >Remember, your 28,800 bps modem is only running at 2400 baud. Baud and
- >bps are *not* the same thing, and you can use the difference to hang them.
- >Baud is the number of *symbols* per second. Each symbol can carry multiple
- >bits if the modulation is sufficiently complex.
-
- Well, partially correct. In "2400 baud" through various combinations
- of phase and amplitude you can achieve up to 21,600 bps, not 28.8.
- That's what all the hullabaloo was about with AT&T's "V32-terbo"
- (19.2) proposal. V32-terbo took an existing standard (V32bis) and
- merely expanded on it with a different constellation & symbol size,
- but still holding it within the "2400 BAUD" limits. By contrast,
- 28,800 bps requires a minimum of 3200 "baud" and works even better if
- the phone line can support 3429 "baud". 33,600 bps also requires a
- line capable of supporting 3429 "baud" along with a *very* good
- signal-to-noise ratio.
-
- The "line probe" or frequency sweeps some of you have seen that are
- generated by the USR and Multi-Tech modems' line diagnostic commands
- are actually displaying what your phone line characteristics are along
- with showing you the actual "BAUD" rate and several other interesting
- parameters. It's almost worth having one of these modems just for its
- diagnostics capabilities alone. Bulletin 23 on USR's support bbs
- explains how to interpret this information.
-
- Many years ago the terms "baud" and "bits-per-second" were synonomous
- with each other, but with modern modulation techniques, a single
- "BAUD" can today contain several "BITS". For this reason, describing
- your modem speed as being a certain "baud" is incorrect.
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