diff --git a/basice2e/run.sh b/basice2e/run.sh
index 2e6976298d69ea2b126f34ffd482ac4c6ff88be4..602fe7dcc88289d72a30799f6eab357319ef8980 100755
--- a/basice2e/run.sh
+++ b/basice2e/run.sh
@@ -402,11 +402,11 @@ wait $PIDVAL
 wait $PIDVAL2
 
 echo "FORCING MESSAGE PICKUP RETRY... "
-CLIENTCMD="timeout 240s ../bin/client $CLIENTOPTS --forceMessagePickupRetry -l $CLIENTOUT/client20.log -s blob20 --sendid 20 --destid 21 --sendCount 10 --receiveCount 10 -m \"Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption\""
+CLIENTCMD="timeout 240s ../bin/client $CLIENTOPTS --forceMessagePickupRetry -l $CLIENTOUT/client20.log -s blob20 --sendid 20 --destid 21 --sendCount 8 --receiveCount 8 -m \"Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption\""
 eval $CLIENTCMD >> $CLIENTOUT/client20.txt || true &
 PIDVAL=$!
 echo "$CLIENTCMD -- $PIDVAL"
-CLIENTCMD="timeout 240s ../bin/client $CLIENTOPTS --forceMessagePickupRetry -l $CLIENTOUT/client21.log -s blob21 --sendid 21 --destid 20 --sendCount 10 --receiveCount 10 -m \"Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption\""
+CLIENTCMD="timeout 240s ../bin/client $CLIENTOPTS --forceMessagePickupRetry -l $CLIENTOUT/client21.log -s blob21 --sendid 21 --destid 20 --sendCount 8 --receiveCount 8 -m \"Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption\""
 eval $CLIENTCMD >> $CLIENTOUT/client21.txt || true &
 PIDVAL2=$!
 echo "$CLIENTCMD -- $PIDVAL"