diff --git a/functions.php b/functions.php
index e218a6c28..ea991269d 100644
--- a/functions.php
+++ b/functions.php
@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@
 
 			$rss = new SimplePie();
 			$rss->set_useragent(SIMPLEPIE_USERAGENT . MAGPIE_USER_AGENT_EXT);
-			$rss->set_timeout(MAGPIE_FETCH_TIME_OUT);
+//			$rss->set_timeout(MAGPIE_FETCH_TIME_OUT);
 			$rss->set_feed_url($fetch_url);
 			$rss->set_output_encoding('UTF-8');
 
@@ -3338,7 +3338,7 @@
 		if (ENABLE_SIMPLEPIE) {
 			$rss = new SimplePie();
 			$rss->set_useragent(SIMPLEPIE_USERAGENT . MAGPIE_USER_AGENT_EXT);
-			$rss->set_timeout(MAGPIE_FETCH_TIME_OUT);
+//			$rss->set_timeout(MAGPIE_FETCH_TIME_OUT);
 			$rss->set_feed_url($fetch_url);
 			$rss->set_output_encoding('UTF-8');
 			$rss->init();