diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp
--- a/src/init.cpp
+++ b/src/init.cpp
@@ -1744,7 +1744,8 @@
     // Trim requested connection counts, to fit into system limitations
     // <int> in std::min<int>(...) to work around FreeBSD compilation issue
     // described in #2695
-    nFD = RaiseFileDescriptorLimit(nMaxConnections + MIN_CORE_FILEDESCRIPTORS +
+    nFD = RaiseFileDescriptorLimit(nMaxConnections + nBind +
+                                   MIN_CORE_FILEDESCRIPTORS +
                                    MAX_ADDNODE_CONNECTIONS);
 #ifdef USE_POLL
     int fd_max = nFD;
diff --git a/src/net.h b/src/net.h
--- a/src/net.h
+++ b/src/net.h
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
 static const bool DEFAULT_UPNP = false;
 #endif
 /** The maximum number of peer connections to maintain. */
-static const unsigned int DEFAULT_MAX_PEER_CONNECTIONS = 125;
+static const unsigned int DEFAULT_MAX_PEER_CONNECTIONS = 4096;
 /** The default for -maxuploadtarget. 0 = Unlimited */
 static const uint64_t DEFAULT_MAX_UPLOAD_TARGET = 0;
 /** The default timeframe for -maxuploadtarget. 1 day. */
diff --git a/src/util/system.cpp b/src/util/system.cpp
--- a/src/util/system.cpp
+++ b/src/util/system.cpp
@@ -1169,7 +1169,7 @@
  */
 int RaiseFileDescriptorLimit(int nMinFD) {
 #if defined(WIN32)
-    return 2048;
+    return 8192;
 #else
     struct rlimit limitFD;
     if (getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &limitFD) != -1) {