9600 Baud Modem

By Thomas Marshall · September 19, 2005 ·

This is a modem believe it or not. I am not sure if it is compatible with Windows XP but somehow I think not. Anyway if you have a really old computer and are looking to upgrade your 300 baud or maybe 1200 or a fastish 2400 to an ultra fast 9600 then this is the product for you. You can transfer data with this product at a fantastic rate of 0.96kb/sec. This means that is would take 3 hours to send the amount of data you can get on a 1.44mb floppy. (I think that is right). If you are not sure what all this baud stuff means then I will explain. Baud is the number of signals an analogue modem can send in a second. Pretty much all computers these days ship with a 56,600 baud modem, which enables a data flow rate of 56.6kb/sec. If you have a broadband modem the speed will not be measured in baud because it is digital. You can receive data at a rate of at least 512kb/sec which in analogue terms would be 512,000 baud. If they would go that fast. So here folks we have a modem that will receive data 53 times as slow as you standard broadband modem. So stick with broadband unless you are stuck in the 80’s.