Rate limiting access denied

We use Teams for Education. My students are taking their midterm exam right now. We got the error message 1015 “You are being rate limited.” We have gotten that kind of error message before, but it was on a regular day where we could switch gears and do something else for the day. All students were able to eventually get in, but this is very disruptive on an exam day.

Google Chrome, Windows, Desktop computers.

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Hey, @JessicaNorworth welcome to the forums!

IIRC that happens automatically when a lot of requests are made from one IP like here. There is no way to fix it other than wait

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They are from separate desktop computers, though they are on the same school network. Shouldn’t they have different IP addresses if they’re separate computers?

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No IPs are per wifi network (though large networks are many smaller ones linked together I think, like per classroom) and I don’t think cloudflare looks at what divice it is.

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Hmm. Okay, thank you for the explanation.

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Hey there! Could you mark ethan’s answer as the solution? Thanks!

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