diff --git a/src/core/Akka.Remote/Configuration/Remote.conf b/src/core/Akka.Remote/Configuration/Remote.conf
index 364108afb2c..272381980cd 100644
--- a/src/core/Akka.Remote/Configuration/Remote.conf
+++ b/src/core/Akka.Remote/Configuration/Remote.conf
@@ -583,18 +583,21 @@ akka {
     default-remote-dispatcher {
       type = ForkJoinDispatcher
 	  executor = fork-join-executor
-      dedicated-thread-pool {
-        # Fixed number of threads to have in this threadpool
-        thread-count = 4
+      fork-join-executor {
+        parallelism-min = 2
+        parallelism-factor = 0.5
+        parallelism-max = 16
       }
+      throughput = 10
     }
     
     backoff-remote-dispatcher {
       type = ForkJoinDispatcher
 	  executor = fork-join-executor
-      dedicated-thread-pool {
-        # Fixed number of threads to have in this threadpool
-        thread-count = 4
+      fork-join-executor {
+        # Min number of threads to cap factor-based parallelism number to
+        parallelism-min = 2
+        parallelism-max = 2
       }
     }
   }
diff --git a/src/core/Akka/Dispatch/AbstractDispatcher.cs b/src/core/Akka/Dispatch/AbstractDispatcher.cs
index defa523f64a..1b3d56c913f 100644
--- a/src/core/Akka/Dispatch/AbstractDispatcher.cs
+++ b/src/core/Akka/Dispatch/AbstractDispatcher.cs
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ private static DedicatedThreadPoolSettings ConfigureSettings(Config config)
                 var settings = new DedicatedThreadPoolSettings(
                     ThreadPoolConfig.ScaledPoolSize(
                         fje.GetInt("parallelism-min"), 
-                        1.0, 
+                        fje.GetDouble("parallelism-factor", 1.0D), // the scalar-based factor to scale the threadpool size to 
                         fje.GetInt("parallelism-max")),
                         name:config.GetString("id"));
                 return settings;