diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5afef537..ecb4533a 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1705,9 +1705,9 @@ checksum = "791930b43c0d5973160d90a8f3894509f2b273430f5c5c73b668636d0287c5c0"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "iroh"
-version = "1.2.0"
+version = "1.3.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "b2f8d1cfffc83efe39a1031aab423ce09cb8048071baba550508931e9a81ce46"
+checksum = "885787b892b5e2507c701f132ecbd45d2bad4bbb75157a19427087c16dadb833"
 dependencies = [
  "backon",
  "blake3",
@@ -1755,9 +1755,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "iroh-base"
-version = "1.2.0"
+version = "1.3.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ffd1efd1aaecd68d4d1b0727a30c5811f43fb822843e48f65f6e5db3b7256cc9"
+checksum = "6ae9092be76c9f5429776ab3394f5a5a78dc19dc2524267e884a5b9781546c3f"
 dependencies = [
  "curve25519-dalek",
  "data-encoding",
@@ -1824,9 +1824,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "iroh-relay"
-version = "1.2.0"
+version = "1.3.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "beb2294a9749d6a25fd7cd8bcf0fccd932f20716d4f967d85d3f23c7135ae6a2"
+checksum = "ee116a8233f84980574bb8d11e4517503080cd2c3605bafca04ee9c35d708bd9"
 dependencies = [
  "blake3",
  "bytes",
diff --git a/apps/neshub/Cargo.toml b/apps/neshub/Cargo.toml
index e15082f8..3b8e66c9 100644
--- a/apps/neshub/Cargo.toml
+++ b/apps/neshub/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ name = "neshub"
 path = "src/main.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-iroh = "1.2"
+iroh = "1.3"
 
 anyhow.workspace = true
 clap.workspace = true
diff --git a/apps/neshub/examples/pyro_bench.rs b/apps/neshub/examples/pyro_bench.rs
index 0907e60f..cd5a5f9f 100644
--- a/apps/neshub/examples/pyro_bench.rs
+++ b/apps/neshub/examples/pyro_bench.rs
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ use nesprotocol::pyrowave::{
     should_skip,
 };
 
+/// Datagrams taken per receive, as the client takes them.
+const RECV_BATCH: usize = 64;
+
 struct Opts {
     mbps: u64,
     fps: u64,
@@ -110,10 +113,16 @@ async fn send(conn: Connection, o: &Opts) -> Result<()> {
         } else {
             let buf = Bytes::from(d.buf);
             let mut at = 0;
-            for len in d.lens {
-                conn.send_datagram(buf.slice(at..at + len))?;
-                at += len;
-            }
+            let batch: Vec<Bytes> = d
+                .lens
+                .iter()
+                .map(|&len| {
+                    let datagram = buf.slice(at..at + len);
+                    at += len;
+                    datagram
+                })
+                .collect();
+            conn.send_many_datagrams(&batch)?;
             seq = seq.wrapping_add(1);
             sent += 1;
         }
@@ -147,17 +156,21 @@ async fn receive(conn: Connection) -> Result<()> {
     let (mut all_bytes, mut whole, mut partial, mut lost) = (0u64, 0u64, 0u64, 0u64);
     let mut second = Instant::now();
     let mut busy = Duration::ZERO;
+    let mut batch = vec![Bytes::new(); RECV_BATCH];
     loop {
-        let d = match conn.read_datagram().await {
-            Ok(d) => d,
+        let n = match conn.read_many_datagrams(&mut batch).await {
+            Ok(n) => n,
             Err(_) => break,
         };
         let t0 = Instant::now();
-        datagrams += 1;
-        bytes += d.len() as u64;
-        if let Some((h, p)) = decode_pyro_datagram(&d) {
-            let at = d.len() - p.len();
-            c.push(h, d.slice(at..), start.elapsed().as_micros() as u64);
+        for d in &mut batch[..n] {
+            let d = std::mem::take(d);
+            datagrams += 1;
+            bytes += d.len() as u64;
+            if let Some((h, p)) = decode_pyro_datagram(&d) {
+                let at = d.len() - p.len();
+                c.push(h, d.slice(at..), start.elapsed().as_micros() as u64);
+            }
         }
         busy += t0.elapsed();
         if second.elapsed() >= Duration::from_secs(1) {
diff --git a/apps/neshub/src/dgram.rs b/apps/neshub/src/dgram.rs
index bd8964fb..3743210f 100644
--- a/apps/neshub/src/dgram.rs
+++ b/apps/neshub/src/dgram.rs
@@ -102,9 +102,11 @@ impl DatagramSender {
     /// used, minus the length prefix a datagram does not need.
     ///
     /// A failure is reported but never retried. Retrying a real-time frame means
-    /// delivering it late, which is the behaviour this whole change removes. A
-    /// half-sent frame is abandoned where it stands; the receiver times its
-    /// fragments out and asks for a keyframe.
+    /// delivering it late, which is the behaviour this whole change removes. The
+    /// frame goes out whole or not at all: every fragment is queued under one
+    /// hold of the connection lock, so a path that shrinks mid-frame rejects the
+    /// frame rather than leaving half of it on the wire for the receiver to time
+    /// out.
     pub fn send_frame(&self, seq: u16, body: &[u8]) -> Result<(), SendFrameError> {
         // Ask QUIC what fits right now rather than assuming. The estimate moves
         // over a connection's life as path MTU discovery runs, and it can shrink
@@ -142,18 +144,24 @@ impl DatagramSender {
             buf.extend_from_slice(&body[start..end]);
         }
 
-        for index in 0..total {
-            let start = index * payload_size;
-            let end = (start + payload_size).min(body.len());
-            let datagram = buf.split_to(DGRAM_HDR_LEN + (end - start)).freeze();
-            // Deliberately not `send_datagram_wait`: that waits for buffer space
-            // under congestion, which prioritises old datagrams over new ones.
-            // For live media the opposite is right — drop the backlog, send the
-            // frame that is actually current.
-            self.conn
-                .send_datagram(datagram)
-                .map_err(SendFrameError::Quic)?;
-        }
+        let datagrams: Vec<Bytes> = (0..total)
+            .map(|index| {
+                let start = index * payload_size;
+                let end = (start + payload_size).min(body.len());
+                buf.split_to(DGRAM_HDR_LEN + (end - start)).freeze()
+            })
+            .collect();
+
+        // One call for the whole frame: one lock hold and one driver wake rather
+        // than one per fragment, and a `TooLarge` rejects every fragment instead
+        // of the ones after the path shrank. Like `send_datagram`, it evicts the
+        // oldest queued datagrams to make room -- deliberately not the waiting
+        // kind, which prioritises old datagrams over new ones. For live media
+        // the opposite is right: drop the backlog, send the frame that is
+        // actually current.
+        self.conn
+            .send_many_datagrams(&datagrams)
+            .map_err(SendFrameError::Quic)?;
 
         Ok(())
     }
diff --git a/apps/neshub/src/pyro.rs b/apps/neshub/src/pyro.rs
index 5763e289..524c3fc7 100644
--- a/apps/neshub/src/pyro.rs
+++ b/apps/neshub/src/pyro.rs
@@ -71,16 +71,23 @@ impl PyroSender {
         // Taking the `Vec` is free, and each datagram is a slice of it.
         let buf = Bytes::from(datagrams.buf);
         let mut at = 0;
-        for len in datagrams.lens {
-            debug_assert!(len >= PYRO_DGRAM_HDR_LEN);
-            let datagram = buf.slice(at..at + len);
-            at += len;
-            // Not `send_datagram_wait`, for the reason `dgram::send_frame`
-            // gives; the guard above is what keeps this from evicting.
-            if let Err(e) = self.conn.send_datagram(datagram) {
-                debug!("{label}: PyroWave frame {} cut short: {e}", frame.frame);
-                break;
-            }
+        let batch: Vec<Bytes> = datagrams
+            .lens
+            .iter()
+            .map(|&len| {
+                debug_assert!(len >= PYRO_DGRAM_HDR_LEN);
+                let datagram = buf.slice(at..at + len);
+                at += len;
+                datagram
+            })
+            .collect();
+        // Evicting, for the reason `dgram::send_frame` gives; the guard above is
+        // what keeps it from evicting anything. The batch is queued whole or
+        // not at all, so a refused frame put nothing on the wire and its
+        // sequence number goes to the next frame.
+        if let Err(e) = self.conn.send_many_datagrams(&batch) {
+            debug!("{label}: PyroWave frame {} not sent: {e}", frame.frame);
+            return;
         }
         self.seq = self.seq.wrapping_add(1);
     }
diff --git a/docs/media-transport.md b/docs/media-transport.md
index 2dcbfe7c..058caab8 100644
--- a/docs/media-transport.md
+++ b/docs/media-transport.md
@@ -90,6 +90,14 @@ or a connection that is already gone, never for one the path could not carry.
 prioritising old frames over current ones, which for live media is the wrong
 trade.)
 
+The hub sends each frame with `send_many_datagrams` (iroh 1.3), which is the
+same call over a batch: `send_many(datagrams, true)`, evicting exactly as
+above and returning the full count. What it adds is that the batch is queued
+under one lock hold, and a `TooLarge` on any fragment rejects the whole batch,
+so a frame goes out whole or not at all. noq-proto's `send_many` with
+`drop: false` would queue until full and return a partial count — a real
+backpressure signal — but iroh does not expose that mode.
+
 A sender overrunning the path is therefore told nothing at all. Any counter
 fed by that return value cannot be non-zero however badly things are going,
 which is exactly how a field report came to contain "encoder perfectly healthy,