56 kbps modems

Adamsc Adamsc at io-online.com
Wed Sep 18 16:55:00 PDT 1996


On Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:16:08 +0200, Gary Howland wrote:

>craigw at dg.ce.com.au wrote:
>> well here in Australia Telstra our national carrier only "garantees"
>> 2400 baud to work.
>As I am sure has been discussed at length before, baud does not equal
>bps.  AFAIK, V32bis is only 2400baud.
This is correct.  The difference is in the number of values for each of the
2400 signals sent per second.

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