diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6a7d9f9..3ade99b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ instead carried by the app description, the git tag, the release, and this file.
   read from one open stream, in the order they were written. Restoring 86 MB in 202 files from a
   Hetzner Storage Box over SMB went from 0.78 MB/s to 4.2 MB/s, the speed of reading the packs
   as plain files over that connection.
+- README: a WebDAV location on a slow upload needs a higher `davstorage.request_timeout`.
 
 ## [0.9.3-beta.4] - 2026-10-08
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7aa4343..3bbcfe9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -136,9 +136,10 @@ Contributions welcome via PR — add what you ran into with your own provider.
   Conflict`. SMB: share = the sub-account name, port 445 must be reachable from your server (it was
   from a home connection here, but some providers block it), and the `smbclient` PECL extension is
   required (see the SMB entry below). Both have a noticeable fixed cost per run: an incremental run
-  that uploads nothing took about 20 s over WebDAV and 50 s over SMB. A deep verify is slow over
-  remote storage, since each blob is fetched with its own request (19 minutes for 66 MiB over
-  WebDAV); run it occasionally, not after every backup.
+  that uploads nothing took about 20 s over WebDAV and 50 s over SMB. Over WebDAV, Nextcloud gives
+  every request at most 30 s by default, also an upload of a whole 32 MiB pack: on an upload
+  slower than about 9 Mbit/s a backup fails with `cURL error 28: Operation timed out`. Raise the
+  limit with `occ config:system:set davstorage.request_timeout --value=600 --type=integer`.
 
 - **FTP, server-dependent absolute-path handling:** files_external's FTP backend always builds
   absolute paths (e.g. `MKD /repo`) for the configured root, never relative ones. `atmoz/sftp`-style