diff --git a/docker/nginx/conf.d/client.conf b/docker/nginx/conf.d/client.conf
index eee08c0d..d5127539 100644
--- a/docker/nginx/conf.d/client.conf
+++ b/docker/nginx/conf.d/client.conf
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ server {
 	}
 
 	location ~ "^/([a-zA-Z0-9-_]{46}(/.*)?)$" {
-		limit_conn downloads_by_ip 10; # ddos protection: max 10 downloads at a time
+		limit_conn downloads_by_ip 100; # ddos protection: max 100 downloads at a time
 
 		# we need to explicitly use set directive here because $1 will contain the skylink with
 		# decoded whitespaces and set will re-encode it for us before passing it to proxy_pass
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ server {
 	}
 
 	location ~ "^/file/([a-zA-Z0-9-_]{46}(/.*)?)$" {
-		limit_conn downloads_by_ip 10; # ddos protection: max 10 downloads at a time
+		limit_conn downloads_by_ip 100; # ddos protection: max 100 downloads at a time
 
 		# we need to explicitly use set directive here because $1 will contain the skylink with
 		# decoded whitespaces and set will re-encode it for us before passing it to proxy_pass