diff --git a/src/AcaciaZPushPlugin/AcaciaZPushPlugin/GlobalOptions.cs b/src/AcaciaZPushPlugin/AcaciaZPushPlugin/GlobalOptions.cs
index 563b56b..7ac2a02 100644
--- a/src/AcaciaZPushPlugin/AcaciaZPushPlugin/GlobalOptions.cs
+++ b/src/AcaciaZPushPlugin/AcaciaZPushPlugin/GlobalOptions.cs
@@ -53,8 +53,16 @@ namespace Acacia
         }
         private static readonly EnumOption<Threading> THREADING = new EnumOption<Threading>("Threading", Threading.BackgroundRespawn);
 
-        [AcaciaOption("Enables or disables ZPush account checking. To enable advanced features, it must be known " + 
-                      "which accounts use ZPush servers. This option checks responses from ActiveSync servers to " + 
+        [AcaciaOption("Sets respawn timeout for BackgroundRespawn threading model.")]
+        public int ThreadingRespawnTimeout
+        {
+            get { return GetOption(null, THREADING_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT); }
+            set { SetOption(null, THREADING_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT, value); }
+        }
+        private static readonly IntOption THREADING_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT = new IntOption("ThreadingRespawnTimeout", 15000);
+
+        [AcaciaOption("Enables or disables ZPush account checking. To enable advanced features, it must be known " +
+                      "which accounts use ZPush servers. This option checks responses from ActiveSync servers to " +
                       "identify the ZPush ones.")]
         public bool ZPushCheck
         {
diff --git a/src/AcaciaZPushPlugin/AcaciaZPushPlugin/Utils/Tasks.cs b/src/AcaciaZPushPlugin/AcaciaZPushPlugin/Utils/Tasks.cs
index cc09b5c..0a9289e 100644
--- a/src/AcaciaZPushPlugin/AcaciaZPushPlugin/Utils/Tasks.cs
+++ b/src/AcaciaZPushPlugin/AcaciaZPushPlugin/Utils/Tasks.cs
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ namespace Acacia.Utils
                             _executor = new TasksBackground();
                             break;
                         case DebugOptions.Threading.BackgroundRespawn:
-                            _executor = new TasksBackgroundRespawn();
+                            _executor = new TasksBackgroundRespawn(GlobalOptions.INSTANCE.ThreadingRespawnTimeout);
                             break;
                     }
 
diff --git a/src/AcaciaZPushPlugin/AcaciaZPushPlugin/Utils/TasksBackgroundRespawn.cs b/src/AcaciaZPushPlugin/AcaciaZPushPlugin/Utils/TasksBackgroundRespawn.cs
index f9addd6..8c018d6 100644
--- a/src/AcaciaZPushPlugin/AcaciaZPushPlugin/Utils/TasksBackgroundRespawn.cs
+++ b/src/AcaciaZPushPlugin/AcaciaZPushPlugin/Utils/TasksBackgroundRespawn.cs
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ namespace Acacia.Utils
     public class TasksBackgroundRespawn : TaskExecutor
     {
         private readonly BlockingCollection<AcaciaTask> _tasks = new BlockingCollection<AcaciaTask>();
-        public static int TIMEOUT_MS = 5000;
-
-        public TasksBackgroundRespawn()
+        public static int TIMEOUT_MS;
+        public TasksBackgroundRespawn(int timeout_ms)
         {
+            TIMEOUT_MS = timeout_ms;
             Thread t = new Thread(Watcher);
             t.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);
             t.Start();