(technosticklery) I doubt that your modem is really 56 kilobaud. 56 kilobits per second is quite plausible. I don't recall, however, what the baudrate is for the 56 kbps modem.
A baud is one symbol on the communication line per second. One symbol of line code, that is, not one symbol of payload. There are coding schemes that put three, or four, or five, or even more bits of payload into one symbol of line code. The higher-speed things do odder things, but still there remains a difference between line symbol rate and delivered bit rate.
Sorry about that. The difference between bit per second and baud has been something of a pet peeve of mine for well over twenty years.
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I doubt that your modem is really 56 kilobaud. 56 kilobits per second is quite plausible. I don't recall, however, what the baudrate is for the 56 kbps modem.
A baud is one symbol on the communication line per second. One symbol of line code, that is, not one symbol of payload. There are coding schemes that put three, or four, or five, or even more bits of payload into one symbol of line code. The higher-speed things do odder things, but still there remains a difference between line symbol rate and delivered bit rate.
Sorry about that. The difference between bit per second and baud has been something of a pet peeve of mine for well over twenty years.