IIS only 10 connections in XP?

[postapub]

I am running IIS and I found where to change the limit amount of users from 10, but no matter what I change it to , it's stays at 10.

Is it possible to change it?

 

[vi edit]

XP Pro and Windows 2000 Professional only allow 10 concurrent connections at a time. It's built into the OS, not IIS. You have to move to either an open distro product or up to a Microsoft Server (Nt Server 4.0, Win2k Server) to have more connections than 10 at a time.

 

[jonmullen]

I know and understand this rule, but I think it is really stupid that they never limited Win9x systems and decide to now. If I am correct they stared this with NT4. I was on a job at a lawfirm that had 98 setup as a simple fileshare. One of the lawyers descided to upgrade it on his own to XP thinking it would be more secure and stable. He was in total shock when when only 10 of the total 50 computer users could get files at a time. Thats where I came in, unfortunaly the higher up people would not let me go the Linux/BSD route so after spending the $130 he paid for XP pro they had to shell out another $700 for Win2k Server.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
XP Pro and Windows 2000 Professional only allow 10 concurrent connections at a time. It's built into the OS, not IIS. You have to move to either an open distro product or up to a Microsoft Server (Nt Server 4.0, Win2k Server) to have more connections than 10 at a time.

Yes ^^^^

 

[JackMDS]

Yeah, I bought a small sedan.

Now I am in the construction business, and can not use the sedan as a bulldozer.

How dare they, why did they sell me this sedan?

 

[postapub]

Does anyone know of a good 3rd party application I can install, with easy setup as IIS, to be able to run the forum on- with more connections then 10?

 

[JW]

Does anyone know of a good 3rd party application I can install, with easy setup as IIS, to be able to run the forum on- with more connections then 10?

as vi_edit pointed out, this is a limitation of your operating system. no matter what application you're running, the OS won't allow more than 10 incoming connections.

-jw

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
Yeah, I bought a small sedan.

Now I am in the construction business, and can not use the sedan as a bulldozer.

How dare they, why did they sell me this sedan?

That's not a very good analogy. The sedan PHYSICALLY can't work as bulldozer, whereas a consumer OS could TECHNICALLY operate as a server with only minor tweaking. There isn't any real major technicial limitation that could stop Windows XP from sharing with more than 10 users, it's just a "feature" that Microsoft added so they would sell more copies of Windows 2000 Server.

A more appropriate analogy would be comparing the "Linux" sedan which came with a switch that converts it to a bulldozer, and a "Microsoft" sedan which makes you pay an extra $500 for the switch.

 

[postapub]

If I use the program at www.apache.org am I going to have the same problem?

Some people are telling me I can get more then 10 conenctions in XP, and here some people are saying, 10 is the limit- tough.

What can be done in XP to change the amount of connections made?

thanks in advance

 

[JW]

ok, we'll make this easy. no matter what you're running, you're not going to get more than 10 concurrent connections on XP.

Check this out.

Pay special attention to this part:

Computers that are based on Windows NT Workstation 4.0, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Home Edition, and Windows XP Professional are licensed for a maximum of 10 concurrent client incoming sessions.

If you want more connections, get yourself a server operating system.

-jw

 

[n0cmonkey]

Try apache and find out. From what I have been told you can get more than 10 connections using it. Since I dont like Microsoft I do not own XP and refuse to pay for it, so I cannot test it for sure.

 

[bex0rs]

It would seem that from section 12.3 of this page, that apache is not limited to 10 connections:

For Windows, Windows XP Professional should be a minimum (the others do not multi-thread past 50-60 connections, and you probably anticipate more users than that).

~bex0rs