Comment by vardump
8 days ago
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.
8 days ago
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