[65814] in Cypherpunks
Re: 56 kbps modems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adamsc)
Wed Sep 18 17:03:24 1996
From: Adamsc@io-online.com (Adamsc)
To: "craigw@dg.ce.com.au" <craigw@dg.ce.com.au>,
"Gary Howland" <gary@systemics.com>
Cc: "cypherpunks@toad.com" <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 96 22:04:08 -0800
Reply-To: "Chris Adams" <adamsc@io-online.com>
On Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:16:08 +0200, Gary Howland wrote:
>craigw@dg.ce.com.au wrote:
>> well here in Australia Telstra our national carrier only "garantees"
>> 2400 baud to work.
>As I am sure has been discussed at length before, baud does not equal
>bps. AFAIK, V32bis is only 2400baud.
This is correct. The difference is in the number of values for each of the
2400 signals sent per second.
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