diff --git a/akka-remote/src/main/resources/reference.conf b/akka-remote/src/main/resources/reference.conf
index 1091c2814c..7350d3d96f 100644
--- a/akka-remote/src/main/resources/reference.conf
+++ b/akka-remote/src/main/resources/reference.conf
@@ -78,12 +78,6 @@ akka {
     # Reuse inbound connections for outbound messages
     use-passive-connections = on
 
-    # Dispatcher that the actors responsible to write to a connection will use.
-    # The mailbox type must be always a DequeBasedMailbox.
-    writer-dispatcher {
-      mailbox-type = "akka.dispatch.UnboundedDequeBasedMailbox"
-    }
-
     # Controls the backoff interval after a refused write is reattempted.
     # (Transports may refuse writes if their internal buffer is full)
     backoff-interval = 0.01 s
diff --git a/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/Endpoint.scala b/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/Endpoint.scala
index 8b366352e1..f3f922cd92 100644
--- a/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/Endpoint.scala
+++ b/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/Endpoint.scala
@@ -321,9 +321,7 @@ private[remote] class ReliableDeliverySupervisor(
       settings = settings,
       AkkaPduProtobufCodec,
       receiveBuffers = receiveBuffers,
-      reliableDeliverySupervisor = Some(self))
-      .withDispatcher("akka.remote.writer-dispatcher").withDeploy(Deploy.local),
-      "endpointWriter"))
+      reliableDeliverySupervisor = Some(self)).withDeploy(Deploy.local), "endpointWriter"))
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/Remoting.scala b/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/Remoting.scala
index c173e309c8..aa74a186af 100644
--- a/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/Remoting.scala
+++ b/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/Remoting.scala
@@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ private[remote] class EndpointManager(conf: Config, log: LoggingAdapter) extends
       transport,
       endpointSettings,
       AkkaPduProtobufCodec,
-      receiveBuffers).withDispatcher("akka.remote.writer-dispatcher").withDeploy(Deploy.local),
+      receiveBuffers).withDeploy(Deploy.local),
       "reliableEndpointWriter-" + AddressUrlEncoder(remoteAddress) + "-" + endpointId.next()))
     else context.watch(context.actorOf(EndpointWriter.props(
       handleOption,
@@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ private[remote] class EndpointManager(conf: Config, log: LoggingAdapter) extends
       endpointSettings,
       AkkaPduProtobufCodec,
       receiveBuffers,
-      reliableDeliverySupervisor = None).withDispatcher("akka.remote.writer-dispatcher").withDeploy(Deploy.local),
+      reliableDeliverySupervisor = None).withDeploy(Deploy.local),
       "endpointWriter-" + AddressUrlEncoder(remoteAddress) + "-" + endpointId.next()))
   }
 
diff --git a/akka-remote/src/test/scala/akka/remote/RemotingSpec.scala b/akka-remote/src/test/scala/akka/remote/RemotingSpec.scala
index afc49a7904..fcaf62247e 100644
--- a/akka-remote/src/test/scala/akka/remote/RemotingSpec.scala
+++ b/akka-remote/src/test/scala/akka/remote/RemotingSpec.scala
@@ -90,14 +90,6 @@ object RemotingSpec {
           "akka.remote.netty.ssl"
         ]
 
-        writer-dispatcher {
-          executor = "fork-join-executor"
-          fork-join-executor {
-            parallelism-min = 2
-            parallelism-max = 2
-          }
-        }
-
         netty.tcp = $${common-netty-settings}
         netty.udp = $${common-netty-settings}
         netty.ssl = $${common-netty-settings}