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Is there a limit to the number of devices on a network?
How Many Devices Can Connect to my WiFi Network? Most wireless access points and wireless routers can theoretically have 255 devices connected at a time. That represents a lot of computers, smartphones, tablets, cameras, and other devices and probably far exceeds the needs of the typical home.
What is the maximum number of simultaneous client connections this Web server can handle?
65535
On the TCP level the tuple (source ip, source port, destination ip, destination port) must be unique for each simultaneous connection. That means a single client cannot open more than 65535 simultaneous connections to a single server. But a server can (theoretically) serve 65535 simultaneous connections per client.
What is limiting the # of simultaneous connections?
It’s not your backend webservice that is throttling your request rate here, it is the number of open connections your calling application is willing to establish to the same endpoint (same URL). You can remove this limitation by adding the following configuration section to your machine.config file:
What happens when you set a connection limit?
When you specify a connection rate limit, the system controls the number of allowed new connections per second, thus providing a manageable increase in connections without compromising availability.
Is there a limit to the number of concurrent connections?
In the Connection Limit field, type a number that specifies the maximum number of concurrent open connections. In the Connection Rate Limit field, type a number that specifies the number of new connections accepted per second for the virtual server.
Is there a limit to the number of socket connections?
This means that if one or more clients establish a large number of connections, or rapidly connect and disconnect from a server, all of the ephemeral ports in that range may be allocated. This creates a practical limit of 3976 client connections system-wide, either active or in the time-wait state.