diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index c6ceae50d..f47af6c4f 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ systemProp.org.gradle.internal.publish.checksums.insecure=true
 # The setting is particularly useful for tweaking memory settings.
 
 #for whatever reason we had to add MaxMetaspace and file encoding = utf8, gradle crashed otherwise
-org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx8192m -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=768m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -XX:ErrorFile=/var/log/java/hs_err_pid%p.log
+org.gradle.jvmargs=-Dorg.gradle.jvmargs=-Dorg.gradle.internal.http.connectionTimeout=120000 -Dorg.gradle.internal.http.socketTimeout=120000 -Xmx8192m -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=768m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -XX:ErrorFile=/var/log/java/hs_err_pid%p.log
 #-DsocksProxyHost=sshtunnel -DsocksProxyPort=8888 -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
 
 # When configured, Gradle will run in incubating parallel mode.