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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
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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.)

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Samuel Lam     {alberta,watmath,uw-beaver,ubc-vision}!ubc-cs!van-bc!skl