diff --git a/src/deno_transport.ts b/src/deno_transport.ts
index 769783fb..3cb0e4f8 100644
--- a/src/deno_transport.ts
+++ b/src/deno_transport.ts
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 
-import { BufWriter } from "https://deno.land/std@0.177.0/io/mod.ts";
+import { writeAll } from "https://deno.land/std@0.177.0/streams/write_all.ts";
 import {
   Deferred,
   deferred,
@@ -39,15 +39,7 @@ import {
 const VERSION = "1.15.0";
 const LANG = "nats.deno";
 
-// if trying to simply write to the connection for some reason
-// messages are dropped - deno websocket implementation does this.
-export async function write(
-  frame: Uint8Array,
-  writer: BufWriter,
-): Promise<void> {
-  await writer.write(frame);
-  await writer.flush();
-}
+const ReadBufferSize = 1024 * 128;
 
 export class DenoTransport implements Transport {
   version: string = VERSION;
@@ -60,7 +52,6 @@ export class DenoTransport implements Transport {
   private closedNotification: Deferred<void | Error> = deferred();
   // @ts-ignore: Deno 1.9.0 broke compatibility by adding generics to this
   private conn!: Conn<NetAddr>;
-  private writer!: BufWriter;
 
   // the async writes to the socket do not guarantee
   // the order of the writes - this leads to interleaving
@@ -71,7 +62,7 @@ export class DenoTransport implements Transport {
   }> = [];
 
   constructor() {
-    this.buf = new Uint8Array(1024 * 8);
+    this.buf = new Uint8Array(ReadBufferSize);
   }
 
   async connect(
@@ -88,8 +79,6 @@ export class DenoTransport implements Transport {
       if (tlsRequired || desired) {
         const tlsn = hp.tlsName ? hp.tlsName : hp.hostname;
         await this.startTLS(tlsn);
-      } else {
-        this.writer = new BufWriter(this.conn);
       }
     } catch (err) {
       this.conn?.close();
@@ -162,7 +151,6 @@ export class DenoTransport implements Transport {
     // to identify this as the error, we force it
     await this.conn.write(Empty);
     this.encrypted = true;
-    this.writer = new BufWriter(this.conn);
   }
 
   async *[Symbol.asyncIterator](): AsyncIterableIterator<Uint8Array> {
@@ -172,7 +160,7 @@ export class DenoTransport implements Transport {
 
     while (!this.done) {
       try {
-        this.buf = new Uint8Array(64 * 1024);
+        this.buf = new Uint8Array(ReadBufferSize);
         const c = await this.conn.read(this.buf);
         if (c === null) {
           break;
@@ -209,7 +197,7 @@ export class DenoTransport implements Transport {
     if (!entry) return;
     if (this.done) return;
     const { frame, d } = entry;
-    write(frame, this.writer)
+    writeAll(this.conn, frame)
       .then(() => {
         if (this.options.debug) {
           console.info(`< ${render(frame)}`);