# Node-red-contrib-msg-queue - Only storing not forwarding w/ active connection

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**Created:** [16 April 2021 11:46 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-msg-queue-only-storing-not-forwarding-w-active-connection/44274 "2021-04-16T11:46:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![jakonnode](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@jakonnode](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jakonnode)\
**Post date:** [22 April 2021 11:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-msg-queue-only-storing-not-forwarding-w-active-connection/44274/20 "2021-04-22T11:19:39Z")

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Colin - You are (embarrassingly) fast in responding and I'm quite obliged. \_/\_

On limits, it is quite unambiguous on your documentation. I missed. My bad.

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For our IoT applications, the edge devices is in remote location and in an industrial environment where network connectivity and handling is a challenge. There are times where we have two-three days of no connectivity in which case it could be of order of few GBs(extreme case and support estimation).

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