On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Ken Caldwell wrote:

> <quote who="Wienand Ian">
>
> > Well, 56k bps = 56 * 1000 bits per second
> > 56000 bps/ 8 = 7000 bps
> > 7000 bytes / 1024 bytes (1kB)= 6.8 kB/s
> Shouldn't it be 56000 bps /10 = 5600 bytes/sec. (allowing for start and
> stop bits)?

Everybody forgets about them. :-)

DaZZa

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