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From: root@zswamp.uucp (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: PEP "baud rate changes" (was Re: PEP turnaround time)
Message-ID: <100.28424679@zswamp.uucp>
Date: 28 May 91 06:11:47 GMT
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet), Kitchener, Ontario
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In a letter to All, Greg Andrews (gandrews@netcom.COM ) wrote:

 >What you are hearing is primarily the different packet 
 >lengths.  You are also
 >hearing a difference in the number of carriers used for 
 >transmitting.  Out of
 >the total number of carriers available to the modem, long 
 >packets will use
 >all of them, short packets use half of them, and micro 
 >packets use around
 >1/8th of them.  The characteristics of the "hash" will 
 >change between the
 >different types of packets because of the different 
 >combinations of carriers used.

   Ah, so if a carrier generates a lot of errors, it will simply be used less 
often to carry data, rather than affecting its physical characteristics?

   Makes good sense.
 

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