Talk:Data signaling rate
Merging
According to this and a few other sources: "The bit rate is not to be confused with the data signaling rate which measures the rate of signal elements being transmitted." —TeknicT-M-C 13:04, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- So they are referring to the difference between the actual content being sent and the wrappers and filler required to send it? Both are referred to by the term "bit rate", so this should at least be clarified, and probably merged into bit rate, since they are such similar ideas. Likewise for data transfer rate. - Omegatron 13:40, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
- I'm no expert, but I think this article is just wrong. The signaling rate references a lower level than bits and has nothing to do with wrappers or headers. With a modem, for example, each "signal" can be one of a number of possible "conditions". If there are four possible conditions, then each signal can transmit two bits of information (00, 01, 10, or 11), so in this example the bit rate would be twice the signaling rate. Check out baud for more info. The article could use a rewrite, but I'm not familiar enough with these waters to just dive in. Regarding data transfer rate, I mentioned this on the talk page, but "transfer rate" can refer to the rate of anything, like packets/sec or characters/sec, not just bits, so it should not be merged with bit rate either. I agree that these three terms may be similar, but I can't imagine any possible benefit in merging them, or any other "similar" topics for that matter. —TeknicT-M-C 17:32, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)