diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index cc639bbdd..490b0d6fb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ The following emojis are used to highlight certain changes:
 
 ### Changed
 
-- `DontHaveTimeoutConfig`'s default `MinTimeout` is changed from `0` to `25ms`.
+- `DontHaveTimeoutConfig`'s default `MinTimeout` is changed from `0` to `50ms` [#959](https://github.com/ipfs/boxo/pull/959) [#965](https://github.com/ipfs/boxo/pull/965).
 - upgrade to `go-libp2p` [v0.42.0](https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p/releases/tag/v0.42.0)
 
 ### Removed
diff --git a/bitswap/client/internal/messagequeue/donthavetimeoutmgr.go b/bitswap/client/internal/messagequeue/donthavetimeoutmgr.go
index 40493ae93..a91e69329 100644
--- a/bitswap/client/internal/messagequeue/donthavetimeoutmgr.go
+++ b/bitswap/client/internal/messagequeue/donthavetimeoutmgr.go
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ type DontHaveTimeoutConfig struct {
 func DefaultDontHaveTimeoutConfig() *DontHaveTimeoutConfig {
 	cfg := DontHaveTimeoutConfig{
 		DontHaveTimeout:            5 * time.Second,
-		MinTimeout:                 25 * time.Millisecond,
+		MinTimeout:                 50 * time.Millisecond,
 		MaxExpectedWantProcessTime: 2 * time.Second,
 		PingLatencyMultiplier:      3,
 		MessageLatencyAlpha:        0.5,