From: Jonathan Hutchins (hutchins@opus1.com)
Date: 10/31/02


Message-ID: <005f01c28116$f99e9b20$6d950c0a@MCI02ITZS012>
From: "Jonathan Hutchins" <hutchins@opus1.com>
Subject: Re: Data Rates
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 08:47:03 -0600


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Clinton" <clintonj@umkc.edu>

> I thought T1's were 1.5 and T3's were 45 mbits.

Ok, how about a "DS3"?

> | Anybody know the actual formula to translate Bits-per-second to
> | bytes-per-second on a cable modem?

> Multiply by 9. Otherwise it would be 8 but there's a 9th error checking
bit.

> 240 kB/s = 2.160 mb/s.

Thanks. For modems, it can be anything from 7 to 10 depending on the
protocol.