Data Rates

[Jonathan Hutchins]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Clinton" <clintonj at 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.