Chris, Try setting "tcpNoDelay" option to true when creating the client bootstrap and "child.tcpNoDelay" when creating the server bootstrap. Cheers, Bruno -- View this message in context: http://netty-forums-and-mailing-lists.685743.n2.nabble.com/Latency-tp5382779p5383758.html Sent from the Netty User Group mailing list archive at Nabble.com.