diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index 83ecfd5c39..6318b95a40 100755
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -13478,3 +13478,24 @@ David  31 Oct 2005
     sched/
         handle_request.C
         sched_config.C,h
+
+David  1 Nov 2005
+    - Addendum to yesterday's checkin.
+        It turns out that, on average, the int benchmark
+        is twice the FP benchmark.
+        So if a project were to set its fp_benchmark_weight to 1,
+        the average credit per CPU second would decrease by 1/3.
+        Similarly it would increase if fp_benchmark_weight were 0.
+
+        To fix this, I added a scaling factor that maintains a
+        constant average credit per CPU second
+        (the same average as the current 50/50 weighting)
+        regardless of fp_benchmark_weight.
+
+    - relax Curl timeout parameters; apparently some users going through
+        proxies were geting consistent timeout.
+
+    client/
+        http_curl.C
+    sched/
+        handle_request.C
diff --git a/client/http_curl.C b/client/http_curl.C
index 28cd45a319..8941a8a76e 100644
--- a/client/http_curl.C
+++ b/client/http_curl.C
@@ -321,9 +321,9 @@ The checking this option controls is of the identity that the server claims. The
 
     // setup timeouts
     curlErr = curl_easy_setopt(curlEasy, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 0L);
-    curlErr = curl_easy_setopt(curlEasy, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT, 50L);
-    curlErr = curl_easy_setopt(curlEasy, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME, 30L);
-    curlErr = curl_easy_setopt(curlEasy, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 60L);
+    curlErr = curl_easy_setopt(curlEasy, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT, 10L);
+    curlErr = curl_easy_setopt(curlEasy, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME, 300L);
+    curlErr = curl_easy_setopt(curlEasy, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 120L);
     
     // force curl to use HTTP/1.0 (which the old BOINC http libraries did)
     //curlErr = curl_easy_setopt(curlEasy, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_0);
diff --git a/sched/handle_request.C b/sched/handle_request.C
index 511d0a23e5..9c30bec390 100644
--- a/sched/handle_request.C
+++ b/sched/handle_request.C
@@ -301,18 +301,28 @@ make_new_host:
 // Could also include terms for RAM size, network speed etc.
 //
 static void compute_credit_rating(HOST& host) {
-    double fpw, intw;
+    double fpw, intw, scale, x;
     if (config.use_benchmark_weights) {
+
         fpw = config.fp_benchmark_weight;
-        intw = 1. - config.fp_benchmark_weight;
+        intw = 1. - fpw;
+
+        // FP benchmark is 2x int benchmark, on average.
+        // Compute a scaling factor the gives the same credit per day
+        // no matter how benchmarks are weighted
+        //
+        scale = 1.5 / (2*intw + fpw);
     } else {
         fpw = .5;
         intw = .5;
-
+        scale = 1;
     }
-    host.credit_per_cpu_sec =
-        fpw*(fabs(host.p_fpops)/1e9 + intw*fabs(host.p_iops)/1e9)
-        * COBBLESTONE_FACTOR / (SECONDS_PER_DAY);
+    x = fpw*fabs(host.p_fpops) + intw*fabs(host.p_iops);
+    x /= 1e9;
+    x *= COBBLESTONE_FACTOR;
+    x /= SECONDS_PER_DAY;
+    x *= scale;
+    host.credit_per_cpu_sec  = x;
 }
 
 static double fpops_to_credit(double fpops) {