diff --git a/Data/Conduit/Network.hs b/Data/Conduit/Network.hs
--- a/Data/Conduit/Network.hs
+++ b/Data/Conduit/Network.hs
@@ -167,12 +167,15 @@
 
 -- | Attempt to bind a listening @Socket@ on the given host/port. If no host is
 -- given, will use the first address available.
+-- 'maxListenQueue' is topically 128 which is too short for
+-- high performance servers. So, we specify 'max 2048 maxListenQueue' to
+-- the listen queue.
 --
 -- Since 0.3.0
 bindPort :: Int -> HostPreference -> IO Socket
 bindPort p s = do
     sock <- Utils.bindPort p s NS.Stream
-    NS.listen sock NS.maxListenQueue
+    NS.listen sock (max 2048 NS.maxListenQueue)
     return sock
 
 -- | Try to accept a connection, recovering automatically from exceptions.
diff --git a/network-conduit.cabal b/network-conduit.cabal
--- a/network-conduit.cabal
+++ b/network-conduit.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:                network-conduit
-Version:             0.6.1
+Version:             0.6.1.1
 Synopsis:            Stream socket data using conduits.
 Description:         Stream socket data using conduits.
 License:             BSD3
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
                      , transformers             >= 0.2.2        && < 0.4
                      , bytestring               >= 0.9
                      , conduit                  >= 0.5          && < 0.6
-                     , lifted-base              >= 0.1          && < 0.2
+                     , lifted-base              >= 0.1
                      , monad-control            >= 0.3          && < 0.4
   if flag(network-bytestring)
         build-depends: network               >= 2.2.1   && < 2.2.3