to be honest, i dont want anything.. you said "something" is not working, i still don't know what you mean by that.
and what i said is basic..
you connect to the ircd 1st.. as always. as in the past, as right now and probably as in the future..
services are extras.. lots of networks does not have services.
so again: either you accept the thing, that the 1st line is the ircd and then comes services, or i just wont answer..

i presume, you set a lower number as conn/ip and now you try to make that number higher, but via services.
that wont work like that.
if you want to control this through services, set a higher number on ircd, then you can configure a lower number in anope.
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after the above, if you still think that something is wrong, pastebin your relevant config lines (the ones you might think it's useful in this case.. from ircd and from services..)
although i think its futile after this.