| comp., MS |
baud rate (The speed at which a modem can transmit data, measured by the number of events, or signal changes, that occur in one second); transfer rate (The rate at which a circuit or a communications channel transfers information from source to destination, as over a network or to and from a disk drive. Transfer rate is measured in units of information per unit of time -- for example, bits per second or characters per second -- and can be measured either as a raw rate, which is the maximum transfer speed, or as an average rate, which includes gaps between blocks of data as part of the transmission time) |
