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Old 13-10-2008, 12:12   #31
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Re: Have you been STMd incorrectly?

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Originally Posted by Gary L View Post
No, it's true read it.
If it's wrong then by your reckoning 512kbit/s is 3Mb
Yes, my multiplication above was wrong, but then you are also misreading the words you have bolded. They use a capital letter for K, which denotest that they mean bytes, not bits.

A 56 kilobit modem would be expected to achieve a speed of about 7 kilobytes per second.
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