diff --git a/app/modules/ws2p/lib/WS2PServer.ts b/app/modules/ws2p/lib/WS2PServer.ts
index bf5903076386d78e1198b651a605a0e92bb9cbf7..010a435eb675b8f5262382e3ca0c3acc68fda6e1 100644
--- a/app/modules/ws2p/lib/WS2PServer.ts
+++ b/app/modules/ws2p/lib/WS2PServer.ts
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ export class WS2PServer extends events.EventEmitter {
 
   async removeExcessIncomingConnections() {
     await this.removeDuplicateConnections()
-    const ws2pPublicMax = (this.server.conf.ws2p && this.server.conf.ws2p.maxPublic) ? this.server.conf.ws2p.maxPublic:10
+    const ws2pPublicMax = (this.server.conf.ws2p && this.server.conf.ws2p.maxPublic) ? this.server.conf.ws2p.maxPublic:WS2PConstants.MAX_LEVEL_2_PEERS
     let privilegedKeys = (this.server.conf.ws2p && this.server.conf.ws2p.privilegedNodes) ? this.server.conf.ws2p.privilegedNodes:[]
     while (this.countConnexions() > ws2pPublicMax) {
       await this.removeLowPriorityConnection(privilegedKeys)