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Comment by PunchyHamster

> Calculating the limit is easy with Shannon's theorem. Approaching it in practice is hard.

Many modern modulations already operate basically on Shannon's limit for a given band/SNR. Well, on raw data, the encoding almost always use some kind of error correction so the decoded bitrate is few % lower than the wire one

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