NO.
Baud is not BYTES.
This is a prevalent misconception.
3.6KB/S means KiloBytes per Second.
That is equivalent to 38,000 BPS (Bits-Baud per second.
A 56K connection will give you a download speed of about 5.2KB/s.
Etc.
This makes you appreciate how slow modems really are.
-JMS
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Subject: [newbie] KB/s....kb/sec can somome explain please
When connected through a V90 56k modem using kppp, when I view a website
through konqueror I see numbers in the bottom left of the konqueror window
that say such as 3.6KB/s , 7.9KB/s etc, the kppp statistics window shows a
line at the top of it's graph which says for example max.12.0 kb/sec.
Am I right in assuming that the first example shows the download speed and
the second shows the connection speed, if so does 12.0kb/sec really mean
that
I am only connecting at 12 kilobits ?
