Xref: utzoo comp.dcom.modems:2510 comp.mail.uucp:1942 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!gatech!rutgers!ucsd!ucsdhub!esosun!seismo!uunet!van-bc!skl From: skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: UUCP g stats Summary: Each byte has 2 to 3 bits of overhead on top of the regular 8 bits Keywords: Baud Bit Byte Asynchronous Serial Line Speed Message-ID: <1892@van-bc.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 88 23:27:27 GMT References: <184@arnold.UUCP> Organization: Balliffe Consulting, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 15 In article <184@arnold.UUCP>, dave@arnold.UUCP (Dave Arnold) wrote: >How are you computing bandwidth utilization? > >(c * 8) / b ^ >where b = baud and c = chars. per second? >c taken from xferstats in /usr/spool/uucp/.Log You probably want to multiply by (at least) 10 instead of just 8 since the 1 start bit and 1 to 2 stop bits count here as well. (This is true when the link between the two computers is an asynchronous serial line.) -- Samuel Lam {alberta,watmath,uw-beaver,ubc-vision}!ubc-cs!van-bc!skl