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# Network Capacity

This section explains how to monitor and adjust a number of property values related to your network connection. Once you have made adjustments to your system, you should continue to use activity logs and monitoring tools to provide feedback on performance.

This section includes:

- About Network Capacity Planning: The topic describes performance issues related to networking and network capacity. This topic includes a general discussion of bandwidth, connection capacity, connection types, and HTTP compression.
- Choosing the Right Connection: This topic includes procedural information to help you determine the optimum Internet connection type for your site.
- Calculating Connection Performance: This topic includes an application to help you determine the connection size required to maintain optimum performance for your site.
- Limiting Connections: This topic includes procedural information to help you set limits on the number of connections allowed to a Web server.
- Setting Connection Timeout: This topic includes procedural information to help you set connection timeout values on a Web server.
- Throttling Bandwidth: This topic includes procedural information to help you change the bandwidth used by a Web server and by individual Web sites.
- Utilizing Bandwidth: This topic includes conceptual information to help you understand the process of HTTP compression and how HTTP compression can improve bandwidth usage.
- Enabling HTTP Keep-Alives: This topic includes procedural information to help you use HTTP Keep-Alives to maintain an open connection.

This section does not include information on:

- Performance aspects of creating transactions and isolating applications; see Configuring Applications.
- Tracking Web site traffic; see Logging Site Activity.

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