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Comment by raverbashing

8 days ago

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.

  • I am not confusing anything, it was the marketing that was confusing

    Of course you're correct and a 56k modem is something like 8k Baud, but in marketing the bigger number usually wins

    And up until the 2400bps modems IIRC bauds and bps were interchangeable