diff --git a/fail2ban/tests/utils.py b/fail2ban/tests/utils.py
index 47e5b909..b54581f5 100644
--- a/fail2ban/tests/utils.py
+++ b/fail2ban/tests/utils.py
@@ -292,15 +292,15 @@ def initTests(opts):
 		unittest.F2B.SkipIfFast = F2B_SkipIfFast
 	else:
 		# smaller inertance inside test-cases (litle speedup):
-		Utils.DEFAULT_SLEEP_TIME = 0.25
-		Utils.DEFAULT_SLEEP_INTERVAL = 0.025
+		Utils.DEFAULT_SLEEP_TIME = 0.025
+		Utils.DEFAULT_SLEEP_INTERVAL = 0.005
 		Utils.DEFAULT_SHORT_INTERVAL = 0.0005
 		# sleep intervals are large - use replacement for sleep to check time to sleep:
 		_org_sleep = time.sleep
 		def _new_sleep(v):
-			if v > max(1, Utils.DEFAULT_SLEEP_TIME): # pragma: no cover
+			if v > 0.25: # pragma: no cover
 				raise ValueError('[BAD-CODE] To long sleep interval: %s, try to use conditional Utils.wait_for instead' % v)
-			_org_sleep(min(v, Utils.DEFAULT_SLEEP_TIME))
+			_org_sleep(v)
 		time.sleep = _new_sleep
 	# --no-network :
 	if unittest.F2B.no_network: # pragma: no cover