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Comment by raverbashing

10 days ago

Yeah slow?

Try using a 2400baud modem, that was slow

I started on 300baud - but never accessed the internet from that so I won't count it in this discussion.

Those things always confuse me. I think 2400 baud modems were like 9600 bps? At least 56k modems were 8000 baud.

  • no, the other way

    2400 were 300 bytes per second

    (though it might be that 9600bps worked at the 'official definition' of 2400 baud but nobody advertised it like that)

    • You seem to be confusing baud and bits per second. Baud is symbols per second. Usually one symbol represents multiple bits. AFAIK in 56k modems one symbol corresponds up to 7 bits.

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