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Received: from covina.lightside.com (covina.lightside.com [198.81.209.1]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA24512 for <executor@nacm.com>; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 10:32:41 -0800 Received: by covina.lightside.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0tF3gE-0009YwC; Mon, 13 Nov 95 10:32 PST Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 10:32:30 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: Jered J Floyd <jered@mit.edu> cc: John Edward Bauer <jbauer@plains.nodak.edu>, Fred Salerno <salernof@gate.net>, executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: baud compared to bps, ignore if you really don't care, WAS: Re:, 1.99p6 for everybody! In-Reply-To: <199511131616.LAA10542@vorlon.mit.edu> Message-ID: <Pine.AUX.3.91.951113102840.7122A-100000@covina.lightside.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk On Mon, 13 Nov 1995, Jered J Floyd wrote: > 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. You're correct about the concept, but wrong on the v.foo standards: v.32 - standard for 9600 bps transmission v.32bis - standard for 14400 bps v.FAST - interim (proprietary Rockwell) standard for 28.8 (similar to v.34) v.terbo - 19200 bps standard that didn't really catch on v.34 - the final 28800 bps standard v.42 - compression 2:1 (or is it error correction?) v.42bis - 4:1 compression + error correction And there are a few MNP standards for error correction and/or compression too, but most newer modems use v.42bis by preference. Hope this clears a few things up. ---Jake