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From: jon@savant.uucp (Jon Gefaell)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Modem Speed
Message-ID: <1990Sep4.150259.12379@savant.uucp>
Date: 4 Sep 90 15:02:59 GMT
References: <1664@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM> <1990Aug30.023220.8554@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <659@texas.dk>
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In article <659@texas.dk> storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>hes@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Henry E. Schaffer) writes:
>
>>These days most modems are faster than
>>300 bps and handle multiple bps per baud, but still the terms are
>>often used interchangeably - so let me reword Webster's definition 
>
>>   a variable unit of data transmission speed usu. incorrectly considered
>>   equal to one bit per second
>
>Which is illustrated perfectly by the Telebit TrailBlazer running in PEP
>mode which - as far as I remember - runs at just 7 baud.
>So here, you have a 1 baud ~ 2000 bit relation.

Will misinformation never cease? I'll add to it now:

The PEP method uses up to 511 7Hz 'channels' each having one baud. Each
channel is 'tested' to determine whether that baud is stable enough to 
encode 2, 4 or 6 bits (FSK, PSK, QPSK respectively)

Have I helped muddy things up? (i.e. set me strayt on where I've goofed)
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