How many active connections?

[myusername]

I'm new

I have installed bitcoin-qt client and I'm downloading all transaction.
I reach max 8 active connection... is it normal? Why only 8 active connections?

I don't have found this information in all document I'm actually reading

Thanks
MyUsername

[BRules]

maybe you're behind a firewall or a router that doen's accept UPNP port open/forward, so no one can connect to your client. if this is your case you will need to open/forward the port manually.

[netrikare]

If you look at source code of bitcoin client at https://raw.github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/master/src/net.cpp you will see that MAX_OUTBOUND_CONNECTIONS = 8
So it's perfectly normal, default number for connections initiated by your client. To allow inbound connections initiated to your client setup your router as BRules mentioned. Total maxconnections is 125.

[myusername]

But in my router has UPNP enabled on port 2800

I try to search for the UPNP port to use, but I have a lot of results that don't reply my question...

thanks for the replies
MyUsername

[The 4ner]

My client downloaded the entire blockchain using only those 8 connections. So, I think you're fine. Also, my Litecoin client uses only 8 connections so this tells me that the behavior of your client is normal.