what does the term Baud rate describe and what is the maximum rate?

Answer 1

Baud rate is a fancy term for the symbol rate. That is, the rate at which you transmit full WORD lengths. This is, in most all current-day popular operating systems 8 bits. While some char encoding in any system can be more than 8 bits, such as the two-byte UTF-16, the WORD length of your Windows or common flavour Linux system will still be 8 bits, and this will be what determines your Baud rate, as things like text interpretation occurs at higher levels than data transmission.

With that in mind, one Baud on a typical computer system like Windows equals eight bits per second. 56k, or 57,600 bits per second would therefore mean a Baud rate of 57,600/8 = 7,200 Baud, or 7,200 symbols a second.

Answer 2

The baud rate is the signaling rate between 2 modems. It is often incorrectly used interchangably with the term "bit rate." Most modems actually cap out at 9,600 baud but different encoding schemes give much higher bit rates.

Answer 3

Hello,

The term braud rate isnt seen very much anymore in the broadband erra, its was assocaited with the first modems (like the early hayes modems) way back in the 70/80's when the internet was still growing & developing. And when most people hadnt heard of the internet and most connections used slow dialup modems running at 28,000 or 33,000 kbps.

Baud rate is like or similar to bit rate, it has to do with the actual speed that data stream is sent/received at, using the modem.

Baud rate I think is defined in kbps. Hence 56kbps would be your baud rate.

IR

Answer 4

It's to do with data in telecommunications. Please see links below.