diff --git a/network/src/participant.rs b/network/src/participant.rs
index d2035b9989..085ddfcb77 100644
--- a/network/src/participant.rs
+++ b/network/src/participant.rs
@@ -331,12 +331,19 @@ impl BParticipant {
                     prio,
                     promises,
                 } => {
+                    trace!(?sid, ?prio, ?promises, "Opened frame from remote");
                     let a2p_msg_s = a2p_msg_s.clone();
                     let stream = self
                         .create_stream(sid, prio, promises, a2p_msg_s, &a2b_close_stream_s)
                         .await;
-                    b2a_stream_opened_s.send(stream).await.unwrap();
-                    trace!("Opened frame from remote");
+                    if let Err(e) = b2a_stream_opened_s.send(stream).await {
+                        warn!(
+                            ?e,
+                            ?sid,
+                            "couldn't notify api::Participant that a stream got opened. Is the \
+                             participant already dropped?"
+                        );
+                    }
                 },
                 Frame::CloseStream { sid } => {
                     // Closing is realised by setting a AtomicBool to true, however we also have a
diff --git a/server/src/lib.rs b/server/src/lib.rs
index e958ec53a3..241c9588f8 100644
--- a/server/src/lib.rs
+++ b/server/src/lib.rs
@@ -638,6 +638,7 @@ impl Server {
     ) -> Result<(), Error> {
         //TIMEOUT 0.1 ms for msg handling
         const TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_micros(100);
+        const SLOWLORIS_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_millis(300);
         loop {
             let participant = match select!(
                 _ = Delay::new(TIMEOUT).fuse() => None,
@@ -649,7 +650,7 @@ impl Server {
             debug!("New Participant connected to the server");
 
             let singleton_stream = match select!(
-                _ = Delay::new(TIMEOUT*100).fuse() => None,
+                _ = Delay::new(SLOWLORIS_TIMEOUT).fuse() => None,
                 sr = participant.opened().fuse() => Some(sr),
             ) {
                 None => {