I was wondering, if I use an old home machine as a server - how many connections will I be actually able to support. I was able to calculate the connection's capabilities myself as it is quite simple.

30 mbit/s = 3.75 MB/s, with average request size of 150 KB 3750/150 = 25. So theoretically my connection will support 25 requests per second on average.

I am not sure how to do that for the hardware, though. The result will probably be greater than 25 which makes it irrelevant to the situation but I am doing it to learn. As well as there is always the possibility to upgrade my connection.

This is the hardware:

Motherboard

```
SMBIOS 2.5 present.

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes
Base Board Information
        Manufacturer: BIOSTAR Group
        Product Name: G31D-M7
        Version:
        Serial Number: None
        Asset Tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
        Features:
                Board is a hosting board
                Board is replaceable
        Location In Chassis: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
        Chassis Handle: 0x0003
        Type: Motherboard
        Contained Object Handles: 0

```

Processor 

* Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz

Memory

```
/0/0                        memory      64KiB BIOS
/0/4/5                      memory      64KiB L1 cache
/0/4/6                      memory      3MiB L2 cache
/0/f                        memory      4GiB System Memory
/0/f/0                      memory      2GiB DIMM SDRAM Synchronous
/0/f/1                      memory      DIMM [empty]
/0/f/2                      memory      2GiB DIMM SDRAM Synchronous
/0/f/3                      memory      DIMM [empty]

```

Usage

```
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3943        966       2977         77        109        556
-/+ buffers/cache:        299       3644
Swap:            0          0          0

```

My application executes in `0.023s` and uses `225KB` of memory on average of 1000 requests.

If any more information is needed I will provide.