diff --git a/porting/targets/riot/syscfg.yml b/porting/targets/riot/syscfg.yml
index 7bbb57fe9..d6ee102bf 100644
--- a/porting/targets/riot/syscfg.yml
+++ b/porting/targets/riot/syscfg.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 #
 
 syscfg.vals:
-    BLE_ACL_BUF_COUNT: 4
+    BLE_ACL_BUF_COUNT: 24
     BLE_HCI_EVT_HI_BUF_COUNT: 2
     BLE_HW_WHITELIST_ENABLE: 0
     BLE_LL_CFG_FEAT_DATA_LEN_EXT: 0