diff --git a/p2p/host/resource-manager/limit_defaults.go b/p2p/host/resource-manager/limit_defaults.go
index 27e2b8c93b..a9c73a4d9e 100644
--- a/p2p/host/resource-manager/limit_defaults.go
+++ b/p2p/host/resource-manager/limit_defaults.go
@@ -492,7 +492,10 @@ var DefaultLimits = ScalingLimitConfig{
 	},
 
 	PeerBaseLimit: BaseLimit{
-		ConnsInbound:    4,
+		// 8 for now so that it matches the number of concurrent dials we may do
+		// in swarm_dial.go. With future smart dialing work we should bring this
+		// down
+		ConnsInbound:    8,
 		ConnsOutbound:   8,
 		Conns:           8,
 		StreamsInbound:  256,