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How would you answer this question
By Nick Hodge | September 15, 2008
How would you answer this question?
Which of these terms is not used to describe the speed of data transmission between computers?
- Baud rate
- Cycles per second
- Bits per second
- Bytes per second
Topics: technology | 9 Comments »
September 15th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
B. And some of the others are arguable.
So do tell … where did this question come from?
Andrew
September 15th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Are you bored Nick ?
September 15th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
I guess you *could* argue that because “cycles per second” was a once-common unit of frequency, measuring transfer rates over wireless connections *could* be a valid mesaurement.
September 15th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Why, it’d be cycles per second. It’s impossible to throw bits and bytes off a building, but not so much for bicycles.
September 15th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
while b is the obvious answer, thecnically it could be correct, as the cpu cycles that are needed to push data into the pipe could theoretically be measured and though in most cases the pipe is slower than the cpu so it doesnt matter with a real old pc on a fast connection it could be a measurement — or i dont know what im talking about
– probably the last answer
September 16th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
OK, this question was on a sample exam Liam completed last week
Suffice to say I answered “B”, as did Liam — and evidently we are all wrong.
Baud is not a measure of speed??
I am gobsmacked, too!
September 17th, 2008 at 9:43 am
In retrospect I guess that makes sense… from the perspective that it’s about the size of the pipe.
(But I initially chose B also
September 18th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Looking up Baud in Wikipedia explains the answer succintly, though you need to be student of Physics to understand it.
October 13th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Baud? wtf.. BBS’s use to use this measurement all the time..
It’s a bloody outrage!…
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