Summary

When browsing through a WebLink Website hosted on a Windows XP computer, you may receive the following error message even though there are only a small number of users connected to WebLink:

Too many connections.

You may also receive the following error message:

A lost connection has been detected. You may need to reload the page to continue.

Cause

Due to Windows XP not being a server operating system, IIS on Windows XP contains a limit on the number of simultaneous connections. By default, the limit is set to 10 concurrent connections.

Workaround 1

Increase the IIS connection limit on Windows XP to 40. This is the hard-coded maximum for Windows XP.

To increase the IIS MaxConnections limit

1. Click Start and click Run.
2. Type the following and click OK to increase the MaxConnections limit to 40:

cscript %SYSTEMDRIVE%\inetpub\AdminScripts\adsutil.vbs SET W3SVC/MaxConnections 40

Workaround 2

Configure your Web browser to limit the maximum number of simultaneous connections to a server.

Internet Explorer 8

1. Click Start and click Run.
2. Type the following to load the Windows Registry Editor:

regedit

3. Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
4. Expand SOFTWARE.
5. Expand Microsoft.
6. Expand Internet Explorer.
7. Expand MAIN.
8. Expand FeatureControl.
9. Expand FEATURE_MAXCONNECTIONSPERSERVER.
10. From the Edit menu, point to New and click DWORD Value.
11. Name the new value:

iexplore.exe

12. Set the value to 2 in decimal.

Firefox 2, Firefox 3

1. Load Firefox.
2. In the URL bar, type the following to load Firefox's configuration page:

about:config

3. Locate the following preference:

network.http.max-connections-per-server

4. Set the value to 2.

Opera 9

1. Load Opera.
2. From the Tools menu, click Preferences.
3. Click the Advanced tab.
4. Select the Network item.
5. Set the Max connections to a server option to 2.