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- From: forest@soda.berkeley.edu (Forest Edward Wilkinson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Q: Are the Baud Rate and BPS same?
- Keywords: modem
- Message-ID: <17lv51INN90g@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 19:34:57 GMT
- References: <1992Aug28.155701.218@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug28.155701.218@news2.cis.umn.edu> smahn@vx.cis.umn.edu (Seokmin Ahn) writes:
- >The advertisement about modems confused me about Baud rate and BPS.
-
- A baud is a change in the state of either carrier tone on a modem
- connection. It is often mistaken for "Bits Per Second" (bps), which
- is the actual rate at which data is transfered on a modem connection.
- Many people use the two terms interchangably.
-
- If someone says they have a 9600 baud modem, they probably mean 9600
- bits per second, as true 9600 baud is not feasible on the telephone
- lines of today. Come to think of it, unless you are engaged in a very
- technically accurate conversation, it's pretty safe to assume that
- when people say "baud" they mean "bits per second".
-
- For more information, check out comp.dcom.modems.
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- Forest Edward Wilkinson
- forest@soda.berkeley.edu
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