diff --git a/daemon/remote.c b/daemon/remote.c
index 2ba29025e..64207751c 100644
--- a/daemon/remote.c
+++ b/daemon/remote.c
@@ -1871,7 +1871,7 @@ tr_curl_easy_init( struct evbuffer * writebuf )
     curl_easy_setopt( curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1 );
     curl_easy_setopt( curl, CURLOPT_NETRC, CURL_NETRC_OPTIONAL );
     curl_easy_setopt( curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY );
-    curl_easy_setopt( curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60L );
+    curl_easy_setopt( curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 300L );
     curl_easy_setopt( curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, debug );
     curl_easy_setopt( curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "" ); /* "" tells curl to fill in the blanks with what it was compiled to support */
     if( netrc )