Danny Keogh wrote in a message to Kris Roebuck:

 DK> While sitting on cloud 9, Kris Roebuck said to All something about 
 DK>     Baud and bps

 KR> Could someone explain to me the difference between baud rates and
 KR> bps.  I'm told that they have different meanings, but no-one will tell
 KR> me why. 

 DK> There really isn't a difference.  Baud is actually the name of some
 DK> guy who was in the datacoms field a while ago.  BPS stands for bits
 DK> per second.  Baud rate is just another way of saying BPS rate.

Parapharased from my recent data communications lecture at university...

Baud Rate is the rate at which the signal changes from 1 to 0 etc....

Bits per Sec (bps) is the rate at which bits are transferred..

It is possible to encode in such a way that you can send more bits, to the baud..

ie: your 14.400 kbps connection is riding on a 2400 baud carrier... I
believe 28.8 is the same...


Cheers,
           Rob 
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