# Variable: MAX\_HOPS

```ts
const MAX_HOPS: 3 = 3;
```

Defined in: [packages/core/src/network/introductions.ts:65](https://github.com/leifriksheim/minca/blob/main/core/src/network/introductions.ts#L65)

How far a relayed signal travels: everyone in a room tends to be within a hop or two, and it bounds what a peer can inject