diff --git a/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/StatelessChronicleMap.java b/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/StatelessChronicleMap.java
index 253df7f79..1051cc25c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/StatelessChronicleMap.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/StatelessChronicleMap.java
@@ -1191,7 +1191,7 @@ class StatelessChronicleMap<K, V> implements ChronicleMap<K, V>, Closeable, Clon
         // if we have other threads waiting to send and the buffer is not full, let the other threads
         // write to the buffer
         if (outBytesLock.hasQueuedThreads() &&
-                outBytes.position() + lagestEntrySoFar <= config.packetSize()) {
+                outBytes.position() + lagestEntrySoFar <= config.tcpBufferSize()) {
             return;
         }
 
@@ -1215,7 +1215,7 @@ class StatelessChronicleMap<K, V> implements ChronicleMap<K, V>, Closeable, Clon
             // if we have queued threads then we don't have to write all the bytes as the other
             // threads will write the remains bytes.
             if (outBuffer.remaining() > 0 && outBytesLock.hasQueuedThreads() &&
-                    outBuffer.remaining() + lagestEntrySoFar <= config.packetSize()) {
+                    outBuffer.remaining() + lagestEntrySoFar <= config.tcpBufferSize()) {
 
 
                 LOG.debug("continuing -  without all the data being written to the buffer as " +
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/StatelessMapConfig.java b/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/StatelessMapConfig.java
index 538f9de30..b145f0f82 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/StatelessMapConfig.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/openhft/chronicle/map/StatelessMapConfig.java
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class StatelessMapConfig<K, V> implements StatelessClientConfig<ChronicleMap<K,
     private final long timeoutMs;
     private final String name;
 
-    private int packetSize = 1024 * 64;
+    private int tcpBufferSize = 1024 * 64;
 
     private final AtomicBoolean used;
 
@@ -84,12 +84,12 @@ class StatelessMapConfig<K, V> implements StatelessClientConfig<ChronicleMap<K,
         }
     }
 
-    public int packetSize() {
-        return packetSize;
+    public int tcpBufferSize() {
+        return tcpBufferSize;
     }
 
-    public StatelessMapConfig packetSize(int packetSize) {
-        this.packetSize = packetSize;
+    public StatelessMapConfig tcpBufferSize(int packetSize) {
+        this.tcpBufferSize = packetSize;
         return this;
     }
 }