Baud Rate inconsistency working with ATTiny 84

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Hi Arduino Forum,

I'm currently working with SoftwareSerial with ATTiny using Arduino's interface. Everything is communicating and I'm at a stable ground, but I'm having a slight issue with baud rates being inconsistent. In the Arduino Console I have to set the baud rate to 1200 in order to communicate with the ATTiny84 set at 9600. Is this normal, because it's a smaller processor? Or am I doing something wrong.

A few things I've checked off the list:
Fuses are set for 8Mhz using bootloader in Arduino and I also set fuses using avrdude directly.
I've tried voltages of 3.3v - 5v.

I've communicated using UART through USB and Arduino.

Does anyone have any idea as to something I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,
Frank N.

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You left CKDIV8 on, so it's running at 1mhz not 8mhz, hence the serial is running at 1/8th the speed it's supposed to.

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Thanks for the reply,

Beautiful, that was the exact issue.

Thanks for your help.
Frank N.