diff --git a/basice2e/clients.goldoutput/client20.txt b/basice2e/clients.goldoutput/client20.txt
index 2b10e4046835de371f6c155d4167bd3efefa75c4..b94f68a304f0511b96072b27b5654e364ac912ac 100644
--- a/basice2e/clients.goldoutput/client20.txt
+++ b/basice2e/clients.goldoutput/client20.txt
@@ -16,10 +16,7 @@ Message received: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
 Message received: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
 Message received: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
 Message received: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
-Message received: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
-Message received: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
-Received 10
-Sent: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
+Received 8
 Sent: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
 Sent: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
 Sent: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
@@ -28,9 +25,6 @@ Sent: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
 Sent: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
 Sent: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
 Sent: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
-Sent: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
-Message received: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
-Message received: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
 Message received: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
 Message received: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
 Message received: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
@@ -39,4 +33,4 @@ Message received: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
 Message received: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
 Message received: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
 Message received: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
-Received 10
+Received 8
diff --git a/basice2e/clients.goldoutput/client21.txt b/basice2e/clients.goldoutput/client21.txt
index 12b9325a98938a9ca969f1321a8fb084bb3283ea..8212b357c6af218d48931446deff9e3772c66954 100644
--- a/basice2e/clients.goldoutput/client21.txt
+++ b/basice2e/clients.goldoutput/client21.txt
@@ -6,10 +6,6 @@ Sent: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
 Sent: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
 Sent: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
 Sent: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
-Sent: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
-Sent: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
-Message received: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
-Message received: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
 Message received: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
 Message received: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
 Message received: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
@@ -18,7 +14,7 @@ Message received: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
 Message received: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
 Message received: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
 Message received: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
-Received 10
+Received 8
 Sent: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
 Sent: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
 Sent: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
@@ -27,10 +23,6 @@ Sent: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
 Sent: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
 Sent: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
 Sent: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
-Sent: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
-Sent: Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption
-Message received: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
-Message received: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
 Message received: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
 Message received: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
 Message received: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
@@ -39,4 +31,4 @@ Message received: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
 Message received: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
 Message received: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
 Message received: Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption
-Received 10
+Received 8
diff --git a/basice2e/run.sh b/basice2e/run.sh
index 4221c474dcf61fa99a8e2020b247e72797d2819b..71db02613bf086a2fcf13eb7c089d0fd9a517f42 100755
--- a/basice2e/run.sh
+++ b/basice2e/run.sh
@@ -272,11 +272,11 @@ then
 
     echo "FORCING MESSAGE PICKUP RETRY... (NON-E2E, PRECAN)"
     # Higher timeouts for this test to allow message pickup retry to function
-    CLIENTCMD="timeout 300s ../bin/client $CLIENTOPTS --forceMessagePickupRetry --unsafe -l $CLIENTOUT/client20.log -s blob20 --sendid 20 --destid 21 --sendCount 10 --receiveCount 10 -m \"Hello from 20, without E2E Encryption\""
+    CLIENTCMD="timeout 300s ../bin/client $CLIENTOPTS --forceMessagePickupRetry --unsafe -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 300s ../bin/client $CLIENTOPTS --forceMessagePickupRetry --unsafe -l $CLIENTOUT/client21.log -s blob21 --sendid 21 --destid 20 --sendCount 10 --receiveCount 10 -m \"Hello from 21, without E2E Encryption\""
+    CLIENTCMD="timeout 300s ../bin/client $CLIENTOPTS --forceMessagePickupRetry --unsafe -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"
@@ -404,11 +404,11 @@ wait $PIDVAL2
 
 echo "FORCING MESSAGE PICKUP RETRY... "
 # Higher timeouts for this test to allow message pickup retry to function
-CLIENTCMD="timeout 300s ../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 300s ../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 300s ../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 300s ../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"