diff --git a/.vscode/launch.json b/.vscode/launch.json
index 63a53ce..82f954e 100644
--- a/.vscode/launch.json
+++ b/.vscode/launch.json
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@
       ],
       "env": {
         "GCLOUD_PROJECT": "reader-6b7dc",
+        "PREFERRED_PROXY_COUNTRY": "us",
         "LD_PRELOAD": "/usr/local/lib/libcurl-impersonate-chrome.dylib"
       },
       "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
diff --git a/src/services/curl.ts b/src/services/curl.ts
index ae3ca73..355af17 100644
--- a/src/services/curl.ts
+++ b/src/services/curl.ts
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ export class CurlControl extends AsyncService {
             curl.setOpt(Curl.option.FOLLOWLOCATION, false);
             curl.setOpt(Curl.option.SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
             curl.setOpt(Curl.option.TIMEOUT_MS, crawlOpts?.timeoutMs || 30_000);
-            curl.setOpt(Curl.option.CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS, 1_600);
+            curl.setOpt(Curl.option.CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS, 3_000);
             curl.setOpt(Curl.option.LOW_SPEED_LIMIT, 32768);
             curl.setOpt(Curl.option.LOW_SPEED_TIME, 5_000);
             if (crawlOpts?.method) {
diff --git a/thinapps-shared b/thinapps-shared
index 02279d8..8b78eab 160000
--- a/thinapps-shared
+++ b/thinapps-shared
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 02279d88bc3940a08a92cb18cf8877d57cb49b82
+Subproject commit 8b78eab54d78868d44065bfc59c413fe6bd4929d