[nzlug] Broadband bandwidth drop: WTF?

[Robin Sheat]

On Tuesday 22 January 2008 16:17:39 Cameron Bradley wrote:
> The reason connections are specified in bits comes from back in the days
> where they were literally measured in bits per second
Also, in those times, a transmitted unit wasn't necessarily a byte. For 
example, baudot code (used in teletypes, and I've heard it on shortwave as 
RTTY) is 5 bits IIRC.

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