# Multiple Tag Providers to the Same Tag Gateway

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multiple-tag-providers-to-the-same-tag-gateway/90380>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [May 14, 2024, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multiple-tag-providers-to-the-same-tag-gateway/90380 "2024-05-14T18:10:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![cvanremoortel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ba8739/32.png) [@cvanremoortel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cvanremoortel)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2024, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multiple-tag-providers-to-the-same-tag-gateway/90380/1 "2024-05-14T18:10:48Z")

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We are setting up a customer's new site with a tag gateway and a front end Perspective gateway. This question came up: Are we going to get better performance with one remote tag provider connection or multiple connections. I posed this to support and got a non-answer answer. There was a link to setting up remote tag providers (I know how, thanks) and an "I think..." statement. Not useful.

If you consider each remote tag provider a pipe will multiple pipes provider better throughput or will the gateways' performance take a hit because they have to manage multiple pipes? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multiple-tag-providers-to-the-same-tag-gateway/90380/2 "2024-05-14T18:21:18Z")

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**I think** you won't get a better answer, as there are many factors that can affect the result. Gateway hardware, network infrastructure (especially any intervening **routers** ), and other workloads on each gateway can all distort the situation.

**Test**.

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**Author:** ![cvanremoortel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ba8739/32.png) [@cvanremoortel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cvanremoortel)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multiple-tag-providers-to-the-same-tag-gateway/90380/3 "2024-05-14T18:22:59Z")

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I think you are probably correct about not getting a better answer. And, honestly, my guess is the overhead in "pipe management" is probably pretty low.