How to determine the number of outgoing connection streams?

Question

Computer networks

Some strange question was raised by the system administrator. A couple of days ago, they said they set a limit for the user in 300 simultaneous threads. That is, he says, if sites suddenly do not open - close all windows, open again - and it will work.
The other day, he completely cut off the Internet for me, because, he says, "a hundred streams come down from me at the same time."
At the same time, nothing is open for me, only in the background it tries to synchronize the drive (8.1 is installed), and there is some hundred megabytes, a little less.
The management complains that before this accountant in other cities complained about disconnections, but as soon as they banned me, everything is wonderful.
I don't see any such "hundreds of threads" in my Komodo firewall. Of all the outgoing traffic in the Komodo window, there are about a dozen points,
So, the questions are:
1 what kind of systematization by "simultaneous streams" is this, and is it generally relevant for administration? Not by traffic, not by speed, but by the number of simultaneous streams.
In general, according to this indicator, are records and restrictions kept?
2 What exactly could he watch if I don’t see anything terrible in the Komodo firewall on the localhost - everything is quite normal in terms of outgoing traffic, and there are no wild hundreds of entries in the list of outgoing connections for any of the programs (updates, or radio or sites or chromium background pings, etc.)?

Answer 1

Yes, the same windows can download its updates. You need to analyze traffic with special tools, such as Wireshark.

Answer 2

1) the usual limit on the number of connections. some providers practice a limit on the number of packets per second (pps). in comparison with pps, the limit on the number of connections does not make much sense, because. one connection can have arbitrarily many pps.
2) logs, so I suppose. ask him to provide them to you, study the IP in them and their ownership, and understand what software is generating the load