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>Baud rate and Bits per second are essentially the same thing.

No, they are not.  A "BAUD" is a signal change per second and a "bit"
is a piece of information whose transfer is measured in BPS (bits per
second).  A 2400 BPS modem (what many people think of as baud) IS
actually running at 2400 BAUD (signal changes per second).  This means
that at each "signal change" (from + to -, or vice versa), one bit is
transferred.  A 9600 BPS modem (such as v.32 modems) are still actually
running at 2400 BAUD, but are using the "signal changes" more
"effectively" by transferring 4 bits on each signal change.  My
understanding is that varying steps are used to denote the individual
bits between each signal change from low to high (or high to low).
This difference is what yields the speed increase from 2400 BPS to 9600
BPS (and above).  My understanding also is that at 1200 BPS (and
lower?), BAUD and BPS are actually the same thing (1 bit per signal
change).  Inproving technology allowed one to increase the number of
signal changes per second, and then the number of bits per signal
change.  Until 9600 were around, the two terms were interchangeable,
and this is what originally caused the confusion.

I'm sorry if this is very confusing -- at the time that I was taught
about this, I had to think long and hard about it too.  Please correct
any discrepancies..
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