Path: utzoo!lsuc!ncrcan!brambo!morgan
From: morgan@brambo.UUCP (Morgan W. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Quote from Feb 88 Computer Shopper
Message-ID: <249@brambo.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 88 15:43:00 GMT
References: <2009@swlabs.UUCP>
Reply-To: morgan@brambo.UUCP (Morgan W. Jones)
Organization: Bramalea Software Inc., Bramalea, Ont.
Lines: 43

In article <2009@swlabs.UUCP> jack@swlabs.UUCP (Jack Bonn) writes:
>Having just finished the installation of my Trailblazer, I was 
>surprised to see the following in an article by Ted Drude in the 
>latest Computer Shopper:
>
>      "And remember, the telecommunication "experts" are sure that 9600
>      baud is the fastest speed which will ever be possible over
>      dial-up phone lines."
>
>      Computer Shopper, February 1988, p76.
>
>The author must not read this newsgroup.  He must be spending all his 
>time in rec.humor.  Is that where he did his research?

Actually, the expert is probably just misquoted, not wrong.  The
highest possible baud rate (so far) is actually 1200 baud (or
something like that - might be 2400).  The highest possible
bits-per-second rate IS 9600, and that's only one way.  But in
addition to baud rate, and bps rate, there is also comething called
an effective throughput rate, which can be as high as 19200 (at the
moment).  What happens is that the information is encoded to get
higher bps rate, and the information can also be compressed to get a
very high throughput rate.  Thus, if you want to send 100 bytes of
information, the modems may be able to represent the information in
(for example) 100 bits and so the information could be sent in the
"space" of 100/8 bytes.

Neat, Huh?

>By the way, I am happy that no "experts" work at Telebit.

I'm happy that "experts" DO work at Telebit, otherwise we couldn't
benefit from their great modems.

>-- 
>Jack Bonn, <> Software Labs, Ltd, Box 451, Easton CT  06612
>uunet!swlabs!jack

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