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Article #67Re: Plug and Pray problems in Warp 4
From: donm
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 00:00
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In <345082C9.7A5B@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>, on 10/24/97
at 11:13 AM, David Moorhouse
<davidm{spamfence}@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> said:
>>Stan Koper wrote:
>>>
>>> Right now I'm getting downloads of about 3250 cps (is it
>>> cps or bps?), not 56k for sure, but 25% faster than my
>>> old 28.8 card.
>>>
>>It's cps - Characters Per Second. A 56K modem running at
>>its theoretical maximum of 56x1024 bps - Bits Per Second -
>>should be able to deliver 56x1024/10 = 5734 cps, assuming
>>1 start bit, 8 bit data, 1 stop bit, and no compression.
>>Bps is not the same as 'baud', which strictly is transitions per second.
>>In the old days, a 300baud modem was 300bps,
>>since each transition was 1 bit. Nowadays, the modems
>>encode 4 bits or more for each transition.
>>DM
PS....
My 28.8 running with SIO and a DTE rate of 115K got download speeds of
3100-3300cps.....
Most internet providers think the 56K modem is one of the bigger jokes of
the computer history...
don.m
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