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Baud rate and bps?
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| jack green 2003-02-15, 2:24 pm |
| I have a question about examdrill.
"In modems that support more than 300 baud, baud and bps do not mean the
same thing."
According to examdrill this statement is true.
As I understood it 2,400 baud is the fastest rate that a phone line can
handle so that modems reach a bps higher than 2400 by sending multiple
signals on each cycle. Maybe this question refers to really old modems that
were only capable of 300 baud? Is 300 the standard for modems that can
support multiple signals per cycle?
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| johnboy 2003-02-16, 1:24 pm |
| When different compression techniques were introduced, baud and bps came to
mean different things. Prior to these compression techniques baud was the
same as bps. So the answer to the question is, in fact, true.
JohnK, Net+
"jack green" <nowhere@righthere.com> wrote in message
news:nww3a.114898$iG3.14400@sccrnsc02...
> I have a question about examdrill.
>
> "In modems that support more than 300 baud, baud and bps do not mean the
> same thing."
>
> According to examdrill this statement is true.
>
> As I understood it 2,400 baud is the fastest rate that a phone line can
> handle so that modems reach a bps higher than 2400 by sending multiple
> signals on each cycle. Maybe this question refers to really old modems
that
> were only capable of 300 baud? Is 300 the standard for modems that can
> support multiple signals per cycle?
>
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| Chris O 2003-02-17, 3:24 am |
| Baud is the number of modulations per second. see the following link:-
http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/fs-1037/dir-004/_0559.htm
Various encoding techniques allow different bit rates for a given baud
value. This is not conventionally described as compression in relation to
modems.
Bps and baud have never meant the same thing though early modems only
managed "1 bit per baud"
C.
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"johnboy" <johnk320@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:ZOQ3a.8896$jR3.4880157@news1.news.adelphia.net...
> When different compression techniques were introduced, baud and bps came
to
> mean different things. Prior to these compression techniques baud was the
> same as bps. So the answer to the question is, in fact, true.
>
> JohnK, Net+
>
> "jack green" <nowhere@righthere.com> wrote in message
> news:nww3a.114898$iG3.14400@sccrnsc02...
> > I have a question about examdrill.
> >
> > "In modems that support more than 300 baud, baud and bps do not mean the
> > same thing."
> >
> > According to examdrill this statement is true.
> >
> > As I understood it 2,400 baud is the fastest rate that a phone line can
> > handle so that modems reach a bps higher than 2400 by sending multiple
> > signals on each cycle. Maybe this question refers to really old modems
> that
> > were only capable of 300 baud? Is 300 the standard for modems that can
> > support multiple signals per cycle?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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