diff --git a/src/modules/mavlink/module.yaml b/src/modules/mavlink/module.yaml
index 6a6444db25..c0eca8dd82 100644
--- a/src/modules/mavlink/module.yaml
+++ b/src/modules/mavlink/module.yaml
@@ -52,8 +52,9 @@ parameters:
                     If the configured streams exceed the maximum rate, the sending rate of
                     each stream is automatically decreased.
 
-                    If this is set to 0, a value of <baudrate>/20 is used, which corresponds to
-                    half of the theoretical maximum bandwidth.
+                    If this is set to 0 a value of half of the theoretical maximum bandwidth is used.
+                    This corresponds to baudrate/20 Bytes/s (baudrate/10 = maximum data rate on 
+                    8N1-configured links).
 
             type: int32
             min: 0