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Also known as: max connections, simultaneous connections
The number of simultaneous NNTP sessions a client keeps open to one server. Providers sell accounts with a fixed ceiling, commonly between 8 and 60. More connections raise throughput on high-latency links up to a point, after which the bottleneck moves to bandwidth or disk; exceeding the ceiling produces a 502 refusal on the extra sessions rather than slower transfers.
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