# Slow Internet, backup stalls, no errors

**URL:** https://forum.duplicati.com/t/slow-internet-backup-stalls-no-errors/2490
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 14, 2018, 4:02am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/slow-internet-backup-stalls-no-errors/2490 "2018-02-14T04:02:34Z")
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### Author: ![JonMikelV](https://forum.duplicati.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@JonMikelV](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/JonMikelV)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2018, 3:44am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/slow-internet-backup-stalls-no-errors/2490/7 "2018-02-15T03:44:49Z")

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> [@ninja6o4](#):
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> Maybe a process is timing out waiting for the upload to finish, causing everything to stall?

That’s possible, but I would expect a timeout message in that case.

I’m not sure if it will help, but now that you’re on the latest canary you could try using the `--http-operation-timeout` parameter and set it to something longer than the default of `10m`…

> [@Very large backup to B2 failing with "GetResponse Timed Out"](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/very-large-backup-to-b2-failing-with-getresponse-timed-out/1223/3):
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> It sounds like you are hitting the response timeout of 10 minutes when fetching the list of remote files. In the canary builds I have added a new option that can change the timeout value: --http-operation-timeout=20m. I have also added the option --b2-page-size=100 that allows you to change the number of files returned in each request. I think this usually helps to have smaller independent backups, as there is less overhead when something needs to be fixed. But I think the problem here is …

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