diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/DefaultReceiveBufferSizePredictor.java b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/DefaultReceiveBufferSizePredictor.java
index 51e65cf282..58ca258bb8 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/DefaultReceiveBufferSizePredictor.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/socket/nio/DefaultReceiveBufferSizePredictor.java
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ public class DefaultReceiveBufferSizePredictor implements
         ReceiveBufferSizePredictor {
     private static final int DEFAULT_MINIMUM = 256;
     private static final int DEFAULT_INITIAL = 1024;
-    private static final int DEFAULT_MAXIMUM = 1048576;
+    private static final int DEFAULT_MAXIMUM = 65536;
 
     private final int minimum;
     private final int maximum;