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Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

So if you leave the page and inspector open, dont refresh, reply to this post you'll see the number go up.

Not sure what command you used to get the report but it's likely a running total and not necessarily a real time snapshot

Right, I'm fairly certain those are cumulative numbers except for the "current connections = 23"

These days, pretty much all PCs (Win, Mac, *nix) are going to have lots and lots of connections. THere are usually a slew background processes on and listening or probing your local network for things that they can talk to. I used to find the list of services that I could shutdown as it 1 makes your machine safer and 2 makes your machine cleaner/faster.