diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 70a39f3..27e2a1c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ Installation is done via composer by adding the a dependency on jmathai/s3-bucke
 ## Usage
 ```php
 // taken from examples/simple.php
+// since large buckets may take lots of time we remove any time limits
+set_time_limit(0);
 require sprintf('%s/../vendor/autoload.php', __DIR__);
 
 use S3BucketStreamZip\S3BucketStreamZip;
diff --git a/examples/simple.php b/examples/simple.php
index b78d533..754e5e6 100644
--- a/examples/simple.php
+++ b/examples/simple.php
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 <?php
+// since large buckets may take lots of time we remove any time limits
+set_time_limit(0);
+
 require sprintf('%s/../vendor/autoload.php', __DIR__);
 
 use S3BucketStreamZip\S3BucketStreamZip;