diff --git a/tests/functional/test_requests.py b/tests/functional/test_requests.py
index 72b876138b4..b6bece867ed 100644
--- a/tests/functional/test_requests.py
+++ b/tests/functional/test_requests.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 def test_timeout(script):
     result = script.pip(
         "--timeout",
-        "0.001",
+        "0.0001",
         "install",
         "-vvv",
         "INITools",