diff --git a/RNS/Reticulum.py b/RNS/Reticulum.py
index f37d778..5364fdd 100755
--- a/RNS/Reticulum.py
+++ b/RNS/Reticulum.py
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ class Reticulum:
     # from interface speed, but a better general approach would most
     # probably be to let Reticulum somehow continously build a map of
     # per-hop latencies and use this map for the timeout calculation. 
-    DEFAULT_PER_HOP_TIMEOUT = 5
+    DEFAULT_PER_HOP_TIMEOUT = 6
 
     # Length of truncated hashes in bits.
     TRUNCATED_HASHLENGTH = 128