# what will the viewer see that comes when number of connection is reached

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/what-will-the-viewer-see-that-comes-when-number-of-connection-is-reached/45506>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [July 4, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/what-will-the-viewer-see-that-comes-when-number-of-connection-is-reached/45506 "2015-07-04T19:44:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anton\_Puharic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@Anton\_Puharic](https://community.wowza.com/u/Anton_Puharic)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/what-will-the-viewer-see-that-comes-when-number-of-connection-is-reached/45506/1 "2015-07-04T19:44:58Z")

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i have a question about concurent viewers…

this is the scenario: i limited the number of concurent viewers to 500. now lets asume that there are 500 viewers…what msg will see or get number 501,502…is there a way to customize that msg?

thanks a lot in advance

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**Author:** ![Michelle\_B](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/michelle_b/32/394_2.png) [@Michelle\_B](https://community.wowza.com/u/Michelle_B)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/what-will-the-viewer-see-that-comes-when-number-of-connection-is-reached/45506/2 "2015-07-04T15:24:32Z")

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Hi,

In the default implementation, a viewer that tries to connect to an overloaded server will simply not be able to play the video. You can create a custom module to handle these playback requests and generate a message instead. [Here](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-control-access-to-http-streams-cupertinostreaming-sanjosestreaming-smoothstreaming-mpegdashstreaming%28cupertinostreaming-sanjosestreaming-smoothstreaming-mpegdashstreaming%29) is a sample code that can get you started.

Michelle