diff --git a/proxy/src/main/java/net/md_5/bungee/netty/PipelineUtils.java b/proxy/src/main/java/net/md_5/bungee/netty/PipelineUtils.java
index fd22e5c0..ef78cd00 100644
--- a/proxy/src/main/java/net/md_5/bungee/netty/PipelineUtils.java
+++ b/proxy/src/main/java/net/md_5/bungee/netty/PipelineUtils.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package net.md_5.bungee.netty;
 
+import io.netty.buffer.PooledByteBufAllocator;
 import io.netty.channel.Channel;
 import io.netty.channel.ChannelException;
 import io.netty.channel.ChannelInitializer;
@@ -74,6 +75,7 @@ public class PipelineUtils
             {
                 // IP_TOS is not supported (Windows XP / Windows Server 2003)
             }
+            ch.config().setAllocator( PooledByteBufAllocator.DEFAULT );
 
             ch.pipeline().addLast( TIMEOUT_HANDLER, new ReadTimeoutHandler( BungeeCord.getInstance().config.getTimeout(), TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS ) );
             ch.pipeline().addLast( FRAME_DECODER, new Varint21FrameDecoder() );