diff --git a/.aegir.js b/.aegir.js
index 9a75337d13..847d73a9b0 100644
--- a/.aegir.js
+++ b/.aegir.js
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ const echoServer = EchoServer.createServer()
 const echoServerStart = promisify(echoServer.start)
 const echoServerStop = promisify(echoServer.stop)
 module.exports = {
-  bundlesize: { maxSize: '245kB' },
+  bundlesize: { maxSize: '246kB' },
   webpack: {
     resolve: {
       mainFields: ['browser', 'main']
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 1c446e65f3..4c608ba114 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
     "ky": "^0.15.0",
     "ky-universal": "^0.3.0",
     "lru-cache": "^5.1.1",
-    "merge-options": "^1.0.1",
+    "merge-options": "^2.0.0",
     "multiaddr": "^6.0.6",
     "multibase": "~0.6.0",
     "multicodec": "~0.5.1",
diff --git a/src/lib/configure.js b/src/lib/configure.js
index a9036d1cde..8401683f9f 100644
--- a/src/lib/configure.js
+++ b/src/lib/configure.js
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ const ky = require('ky-universal').default
 const { isBrowser, isWebWorker } = require('ipfs-utils/src/env')
 const { toUri } = require('./multiaddr')
 const errorHandler = require('./error-handler')
+const mergeOptions = require('merge-options').bind({ ignoreUndefined: true })
 
 // Set default configuration and call create function with them
 module.exports = create => config => {
@@ -22,17 +23,26 @@ module.exports = create => config => {
   config.apiAddr = config.apiAddr.startsWith('/') ? toUri(config.apiAddr) : config.apiAddr
   config.apiPath = config.apiPath || config['api-path'] || '/api/v0'
 
+  // TODO configure ky to use config.fetch when this is released:
+  // https://github.com/sindresorhus/ky/pull/153
+  const defaults = {
+    prefixUrl: config.apiAddr + config.apiPath,
+    timeout: config.timeout || 60000 * 20,
+    headers: config.headers,
+    hooks: {
+      afterResponse: [errorHandler]
+    }
+  }
+  const k = ky.extend(defaults)
+  const client = ['get', 'post', 'put', 'delete', 'patch', 'head']
+    .reduce((client, key) => {
+      client[key] = wrap(k[key], defaults)
+
+      return client
+    }, wrap(k, defaults))
+
   return create({
-    // TODO configure ky to use config.fetch when this is released:
-    // https://github.com/sindresorhus/ky/pull/153
-    ky: ky.extend({
-      prefixUrl: config.apiAddr + config.apiPath,
-      timeout: config.timeout || 60 * 1000,
-      headers: config.headers,
-      hooks: {
-        afterResponse: [errorHandler]
-      }
-    }),
+    ky: client,
     ...config
   })
 }
@@ -57,3 +67,11 @@ function getDefaultApiAddr ({ protocol, host, port }) {
 
   return `${protocol || 'http'}://${host || 'localhost'}:${port || 5001}`
 }
+
+// returns the passed function wrapped in a function that ignores
+// undefined values in the passed `options` object
+function wrap (fn, defaults) {
+  return (input, options) => {
+    return fn(input, mergeOptions(defaults, options))
+  }
+}