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From: magik@chinet.chi.il.us (Ben Liberman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 2400 baud modems
Message-ID: <1990Feb17.130612.1828@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 17 Feb 90 13:06:12 GMT
References: <5282@ur-cc.UUCP> <3967@hub.UUCP>
Reply-To: magik@chinet.chi.il.us (Ben Liberman)
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In article <3967@hub.UUCP> 6600bike@hub.UUCP (Puneet Pasrich) writes:
>Could someone fill me in on how to convert baud to data transfer?
>Something like, how long will it take to receive a 1meg file, assuming
>no data loss, no packet problems, etc. at 2400?  What's the "formula"?

Baud = bits/second.  Usually (8 bits/char., no parity bit, 1 stop bit, 1 start
bit) there are 10 bits in every character sent, so

    2400 baud = 240 characters per second

    1 megabyte = 1,048,576 bytes = 4,369 seconds at 2400 baud = 72 min. 50 sec.


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