diff --git a/projects/tentacles/src/python/tentacles/workers.py b/projects/tentacles/src/python/tentacles/workers.py
index 259c89b..dd16ff5 100644
--- a/projects/tentacles/src/python/tentacles/workers.py
+++ b/projects/tentacles/src/python/tentacles/workers.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ from tentacles.store import Store
 class OctoRest(_OR):
     def _get(self, path, params=None):
         url = urlparse.urljoin(self.url, path)
-        response = self.session.get(url, params=params, timeout=(0.1, 1.0))
+        response = self.session.get(url, params=params, timeout=(1.0, 1.0))
         self._check_response(response)
 
         return response.json()