diff --git a/examples/services/03_bigdata-client.ts b/examples/services/03_bigdata-client.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dcba65e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/services/03_bigdata-client.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2023 The NATS Authors
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+import { parse } from "https://deno.land/std@0.190.0/flags/mod.ts";
+import { connect, ConnectionOptions, RequestStrategy } from "../../src/mod.ts";
+import { humanizeBytes } from "./03_util.ts";
+
+const argv = parse(
+  Deno.args,
+  {
+    alias: {
+      "s": ["server"],
+      "a": ["asset"],
+      "c": ["chunk"],
+    },
+    default: {
+      s: "127.0.0.1:4222",
+      c: 0,
+      a: 1024 * 1024,
+    },
+    string: ["server"],
+  },
+);
+
+const copts = { servers: argv.s } as ConnectionOptions;
+const nc = await connect(copts);
+
+const max_chunk = argv.c;
+const size = argv.a as number;
+console.log(`requesting ${humanizeBytes(size)}`);
+
+const start = performance.now();
+const iter = await nc.requestMany(
+  "data",
+  JSON.stringify({ max_chunk, size }),
+  {
+    strategy: RequestStrategy.SentinelMsg,
+    maxWait: 10000,
+  },
+);
+
+let received = 0;
+let count = 0;
+for await (const m of iter) {
+  count++;
+  received += m.data.length;
+  if (m.data.length === 0) {
+    // sentinel
+    count--;
+  }
+}
+
+console.log(performance.now() - start, "ms");
+
+console.log(`received ${count} responses: ${humanizeBytes(received)} bytes`);
+await nc.close();
diff --git a/examples/services/03_bigdata.ts b/examples/services/03_bigdata.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c06ce776
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/services/03_bigdata.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2023 The NATS Authors
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import { connect } from "../../src/mod.ts";
+import { DataRequest, humanizeBytes } from "./03_util.ts";
+
+const nc = await connect();
+const srv = await nc.services.add({
+  name: "big-data",
+  version: "0.0.1",
+});
+
+srv.addEndpoint("data", (_err, msg) => {
+  queueMicrotask(() => {
+    if (msg.data.length === 0) {
+      msg.respondError(400, "missing request options");
+      return;
+    }
+    const max = nc.info?.max_payload ?? 1024 * 1024;
+
+    const r = msg.json<DataRequest>();
+
+    const size = r.size || max;
+    let chunk = r.max_chunk || max;
+    chunk = chunk > size ? size : chunk;
+
+    const full = Math.floor(size / chunk);
+    const partial = size % chunk;
+
+    console.log(
+      "size of request",
+      humanizeBytes(size),
+      "chunk",
+      humanizeBytes(chunk),
+    );
+    console.log(
+      "full buffers:",
+      full,
+      "partial:",
+      partial,
+      "bytes",
+      "empty:",
+      1,
+    );
+
+    const payload = new Uint8Array(chunk);
+    for (let i = 0; i < full; i++) {
+      msg.respond(payload);
+    }
+    if (partial) {
+      msg.respond(payload.subarray(0, partial));
+    }
+    // sentinel
+    msg.respond();
+  });
+});
+
+console.log(srv.info());
diff --git a/examples/services/03_util.ts b/examples/services/03_util.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..95a27305
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/services/03_util.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2023 The NATS Authors
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+export function humanizeBytes(bytes: number, si = false): string {
+  const base = si ? 1000 : 1024;
+  const pre = si
+    ? ["k", "M", "G", "T", "P", "E"]
+    : ["K", "M", "G", "T", "P", "E"];
+  const post = si ? "iB" : "B";
+
+  if (bytes < base) {
+    return `${bytes.toFixed(2)} ${post}`;
+  }
+  const exp = parseInt(Math.log(bytes) / Math.log(base) + "");
+  const index = parseInt((exp - 1) + "");
+  return `${(bytes / Math.pow(base, exp)).toFixed(2)} ${pre[index]}${post}`;
+}
+
+export type DataRequest = {
+  // generate data that is this size
+  size: number;
+  // send using multiple messages - note server will reject if too big
+  max_chunk?: number;
+};
diff --git a/nats-base-client/mod.ts b/nats-base-client/mod.ts
index e51d00fe..fd6a7077 100644
--- a/nats-base-client/mod.ts
+++ b/nats-base-client/mod.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ export {
   nkeys,
   Nuid,
   nuid,
+  RequestStrategy,
   ServiceError,
   ServiceErrorCodeHeader,
   ServiceErrorHeader,