Re: K of what?

From: Ali <ali.on_usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:34:03 GMT

On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:01:58 GMT, Frederick Williams commented

In the phrase '56K modem' is that kilobytes or kilobits?

bits - AFAIK all transmission speeds are in bits per second - and includes
all the start bits, stop bits and parity bits (or whatever the flow
control and error checking is on broadband) as well as the actual data.

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