diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cpp
index a7251057e..dea9ee85f 100644
--- a/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/main.cpp
@@ -1872,7 +1872,7 @@ bool AcceptToMemoryPool(CTxMemPool& pool, CValidationState &state, const CTransa
             nLastTime = nNow;
             // -limitfreerelay unit is thousand-bytes-per-minute
             // At default rate it would take over a month to fill 1GB
-            if (dFreeCount >= GetArg("-limitfreerelay", 15)*10*1000)
+            if (dFreeCount >= GetArg("-limitfreerelay", 15)*10*50000)
             {
                 fprintf(stderr,"accept failure.7\n");
                 return state.DoS(0, error("AcceptToMemoryPool: free transaction rejected by rate limiter"), REJECT_INSUFFICIENTFEE, "rate limited free transaction");