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From: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Modem Speed
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Date: 30 Aug 90 00:54:59 GMT
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    A baud is an analog unit, representing any number of bits. 
Traditionally, for slow modems, there is a one-to-one correspondence. 
For higher speed modems (2400), this is no longer the case.

    To increase your baud rate, you need a corresponding increase in you
bandwidth - normal phone lines will not pass much over 1200 baud.  In
order to increase your data thruput, you have to encode more bits in a
given baud.  2400 bit per second modems actually run at 1200 baud, but
use 4 different baud to represent four possible states. 

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