How is the speed of a modem measured?

Question

How is the speed of a modem measured?

Answer 1

By download and upload speed. How quickly and how much bandwidth is available to your modem.

Answer 2

Bits per second: How communication devices are rated. Kilo means 1,000 and mega means 1,000,000. Examples include 56k modem and 10Mbit Ethernet.

Bytes per second: The way data is measured on your hard drive and how file sharing and FTP programs measure transfer speeds. Kilo is 1,024 and mega is 1,048,576.

Bits(b), Bytes(B), and Baud

Bits and bytes are a measurement of electronic information. A byte is always 8 bits. Communications speeds are usually measured in bits per second while many computer operations are measured in bytes per second. A "56k" modem is 56 kilobits and a "2m" DSL connection is 2 megabits per second. "128MB" of RAM is 128 megabytes. Ideally when abbreviations are used, b means bits and B means bytes. Baud rate is another measure of transmission speed and is the number of actual signals sent per second. At one time it was equal to the bits per second, but modern technology allows us to send more than one bit per electric signal.

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Dial up modem speed is measured in Kilo and Mega bits.  Dial up modem speeds are pretty much tapped out at their high end of 56Kb due to the noise that exists on standard POTS copper telephone lines.  A few companies have toyed with filtering systems to help quiet the lines but with the newer packet lines taking over the market place we may someday see these POTS lines disappear altogether.

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Answer 3

its meansured in Mbps or Mega bits per second or Kbps if you are on a slow connection by norm but there are differeances in download speed which is KBps which is simple as Kbps/8 and still any appareant speed is mostly quite less than that cse the connection's bandwith is used for other systems beyond user commands in direct and others as well. learn boolean algebra if you want to get tecnicle on this doing a degree in computin and IT from a  reputed college as MIT.