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- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 11:16:43 -0500
- From: Jered J Floyd <jered@mit.edu>
- Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com
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- > Not to get on your case, or flame you at all but I thought I would correct
- > you on something. Baud and bps are two different things. Baud is the
- > number of times a signal changes state in one second, so 2400 baud
- > straigt up would be 2400 bps.
-
- Correct.
-
- > example, 14400 bits are being transfered within 2400 signal changes.
- > Damn good compression. 6:1.
-
- Not quite. Yes, 14400 bits are being transferred with 2400 signal changes,
- but not due to compression. If this were a compression algorithm, non-optimal
- data would reduce your super-spiffy 28.8kbps modem to a 2400 bps slug.
- What really happens is that more data is encoded in each signal change.
- This is done with more amplitude and frequency levels, and funky phase
- stuff that Nynex seems to have trouble with. (Aside: A few months ago,
- many people had problems using fast modems to connect to the MIT dialups,
- it turns out that there were nasty phase problems on several of the trunks.
- However, since the human ear cannot detect phase, people had a hard time
- convincing Nynex there was a problem.)
-
- So, at 14.4kps/2400 baud I'm encoding 6 bits of data in each state change.
- And, at 28.8kps/2400 baud I'm encoding 12 bits in each. Each of these
- standards used to have names like v.<foo> or CCITT <foo>.
-
- To confuse matters more, compression is also added. (That's why you set your
- DTE-DCE link speed to higher than your DCE-DCE speed.) That's also why
- modem manfacturers advertise '4 to 1 compression!', though through some
- miracle they don't advertise the speed with compression. So, a 28.8 link
- with v.42 compression (I think that's the right name) could give you up to
- 115200 bps throughtput. But it's not very likely.
-
- As for the names of the standards, I keep scrambling them. I'm reasonably
- certain that v.42 is the common compression standard, and v.terbo was a
- (interim ?) 28.8 kps encoding standard, but I'm shaky on v.32 vs v.32bis.
- Many modem manuals will explain these, though.
-
- --Jered
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