# Remote User Limit
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/remote-user-limit/38974
**Category:** Feature Suggestions
**Created:** [July 24, 2013, 1:59am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/remote-user-limit/38974 "2013-07-24T01:59:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@jubei](https://forums.plex.tv/u/jubei)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2013, 1:59am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/remote-user-limit/38974/1 "2013-07-24T01:59:49Z")
Kind of piggybacking off these two ideas:
[http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/51593-send-server-messages/](http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/51593-send-server-messages/)
[http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/73077-control-of-users-with-mac-address/](http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/73077-control-of-users-with-mac-address/)
I would love to be able to set a remote user limit and display a message to users trying to connect saying that the server is full. I am guessing this can be done by displaying a looping h264 video with a custom message? Would love a "whitelist" as well for users (like my parents) who are able to bypass this limit. Who knows, just an idea I had.
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### Author:  [@agregjones](https://forums.plex.tv/u/agregjones)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/remote-user-limit/38974/2 "2013-07-25T21:18:52Z")
Just how many people are sharing a server?
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### Author:  [@RockStar](https://forums.plex.tv/u/RockStar)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2013, 12:15am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/remote-user-limit/38974/3 "2013-07-26T00:15:47Z")
Love the idea!
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### Author:  [@jubei](https://forums.plex.tv/u/jubei)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2013, 12:18am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/remote-user-limit/38974/4 "2013-07-26T00:18:33Z")
> Just how many people are sharing a server?
A decent amount.
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### Author:  [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2021, 11:49pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/remote-user-limit/38974/5 "2021-09-04T23:49:39Z")
2021 clean-up: duplicate
> [@Ability to Limit the Maximum Number of Concurrent Remote Streams](https://forums.plex.tv/t/ability-to-limit-the-maximum-number-of-concurrent-remote-streams/193508):
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> This would greatly help those of us with limited upload bandwidth. I only have 5Mbps upload and I limit the remote stream bitrate to 4Mbps. Plex currently forces a second remote stream and transcodes it to a much lower quality in order to fit the remaining bandwidth. I would rather avoid this by limiting the maximum number of remote streams to 1 and have a message pop up in the second remote user’s client that says something like “The maximum number of remote streams has been reached. Please try…