diff --git a/config/config.sample.php b/config/config.sample.php
index 94b8a5d055245..c87e1cad9fa4c 100644
--- a/config/config.sample.php
+++ b/config/config.sample.php
@@ -289,6 +289,11 @@
  */
 'session_lifetime' => 60 * 60 * 24,
 
+/**
+ * The timeout in seconds for requests to servers made by the DAV component (e.g., needed for federated shares).
+ */
+'davstorage.request_timeout' => 30,
+
 /**
  * `true` enabled a relaxed session timeout, where the session timeout would no longer be
  * handled by Nextcloud but by either the PHP garbage collection or the expiration of
diff --git a/lib/private/Files/Storage/DAV.php b/lib/private/Files/Storage/DAV.php
index 733aa10cde6d2..b5b8b548787ef 100644
--- a/lib/private/Files/Storage/DAV.php
+++ b/lib/private/Files/Storage/DAV.php
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 use OCP\Files\StorageNotAvailableException;
 use OCP\Http\Client\IClientService;
 use OCP\ICertificateManager;
+use OCP\IConfig;
 use OCP\Util;
 use Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface;
 use Sabre\DAV\Client;
@@ -93,6 +94,9 @@ class DAV extends Common {
 	protected LoggerInterface $logger;
 	protected IEventLogger $eventLogger;
 
+	/** @var int */
+	private $timeout;
+
 	/**
 	 * @param array $params
 	 * @throws \Exception
@@ -135,6 +139,8 @@ public function __construct($params) {
 		}
 		$this->logger = \OC::$server->get(LoggerInterface::class);
 		$this->eventLogger = \OC::$server->get(IEventLogger::class);
+		// This timeout value will be used for the download and upload of files
+		$this->timeout = \OC::$server->get(IConfig::class)->getSystemValueInt('davstorage.request_timeout', 30);
 	}
 
 	protected function init() {
@@ -373,7 +379,9 @@ public function fopen($path, $mode) {
 						->newClient()
 						->get($this->createBaseUri() . $this->encodePath($path), [
 							'auth' => [$this->user, $this->password],
-							'stream' => true
+							'stream' => true,
+							// set download timeout for users with slow connections or large files
+							'timeout' => $this->timeout
 						]);
 				} catch (\GuzzleHttp\Exception\ClientException $e) {
 					if ($e->getResponse() instanceof ResponseInterface
@@ -530,7 +538,9 @@ protected function uploadFile($path, $target) {
 			->newClient()
 			->put($this->createBaseUri() . $this->encodePath($target), [
 				'body' => $source,
-				'auth' => [$this->user, $this->password]
+				'auth' => [$this->user, $this->password],
+				// set upload timeout for users with slow connections or large files
+				'timeout' => $this->timeout
 			]);
 
 		$this->removeCachedFile($target);