DHT11 displaying incorrect values

I'm having some issues with a DHT11 sensor. I used the tutorial in the playground section of this website, but when I run the sketch the serial monitor returns I2ýþY??rw¢?dB?òþd°?Tv6 ect. What am I doing wrong? Is the sensor just bad?

Thanks!

Looks like a baud rate problem. Is the baud rate at the bottom of Serial Monitor set the same as the baud rate passed to Serial.begin() in your sketch?

That was it! Thank you!