diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst
index 3ae3264969..fed5d9de56 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/options.rst
+++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst
@@ -4197,7 +4197,7 @@ Cache
     Currently, this is used for ``--cache-on-disk`` only.
 
 ``--stream-buffer-size=<bytesize>``
-    Size of the low level stream byte buffer (default: 4KB). This is used as
+    Size of the low level stream byte buffer (default: 128KB). This is used as
     buffer between demuxer and low level I/O (e.g. sockets). Generally, this
     can be very small, and the main purpose is similar to the internal buffer
     FILE in the C standard library will have.
diff --git a/stream/stream.c b/stream/stream.c
index 089b7c3693..136050c265 100644
--- a/stream/stream.c
+++ b/stream/stream.c
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ const struct m_sub_options stream_conf = {
     },
     .size = sizeof(struct stream_opts),
     .defaults = &(const struct stream_opts){
-        .buffer_size = STREAM_MIN_BUFFER_SIZE,
+        .buffer_size = 128 * 1024,
     },
 };