diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index 1c022ca..d0fc9d7 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 * opening new connections in current form causes macOS issues, why?
 * try creating sockets with different ports (and also local ips if setting
   enabled), then converting them to mio tcp streams
+* really break and remove connection when reading 0 bytes?
 * find out how to fully load opentracker
 * only half the number of requests are sent back as responses in opentracker
   and in aquatic when keep_alive is set to false, why?
diff --git a/aquatic_http_load_test/src/network.rs b/aquatic_http_load_test/src/network.rs
index 0e6b2a9..65e5335 100644
--- a/aquatic_http_load_test/src/network.rs
+++ b/aquatic_http_load_test/src/network.rs
@@ -53,6 +53,13 @@ impl Connection {
     ) -> bool { // bool = remove connection
         loop {
             match self.stream.read(&mut self.read_buffer[self.bytes_read..]){
+                Ok(0) => {
+                    if self.bytes_read == self.read_buffer.len(){
+                        eprintln!("read buffer is full");
+                    }
+
+                    break true;
+                }
                 Ok(bytes_read) => {
                     self.bytes_read += bytes_read;