Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxx.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxx!ignatz From: ignatz@ihuxx.UUCP (Dave Ihnat, Chicago, IL) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: re : ALLRIGHT ALREADY Message-ID: <800@ihuxx.UUCP> Date: Sat, 28-Jul-84 02:05:05 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxx.800 Posted: Sat Jul 28 02:05:05 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Jul-84 00:44:17 EDT References: <859@pucc-h> <494@ucla-cs.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 12 Uh...back to basics, huh? Then didn't you ever hear of start bits and stop bits?? It's more like 10 or 11 bits/byte, depending on if you were using one or two stop bits. That makes it more like 16 seconds. As a rule, figure 300 baud >roughly< translates to 30 characters/sec, 1200 to 120, 9600 to 960, etc. Also, usually subtract 10% from whatever figure you get by this method to account for system and/or protocol overhead. You'll be surprised at how close this simple method comes to predicting xfer times. "Now is the time for all good bytes to come to the aid of their checksum..." Dave Ihnat ihuxx!ignatz