diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f49199f..e2bc2aa 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
   route to it is lost as a result of the next-hop dying, or and update coming in
   which causes no routes to be feasible anymore.
 - Switched from the log to the tracing ecosystem.
+- Only do the periodic route announcement every 5 minutes instead of every minute.
 
 ### Fixed
 
diff --git a/mycelium/src/router.rs b/mycelium/src/router.rs
index 7ea4c87..49b8b5e 100644
--- a/mycelium/src/router.rs
+++ b/mycelium/src/router.rs
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ const HELLO_INTERVAL: u64 = 20;
 const IHU_INTERVAL: Duration = Duration::from_secs(HELLO_INTERVAL * 3);
 /// Max time used in UPDATE packets. For local (static) routes this is the timeout they are
 /// advertised with.
-const UPDATE_INTERVAL: Duration = Duration::from_secs(HELLO_INTERVAL * 3);
+const UPDATE_INTERVAL: Duration = Duration::from_secs(HELLO_INTERVAL * 3 * 5);
 /// Time between route table dumps to peers.
 const ROUTE_PROPAGATION_INTERVAL: Duration = UPDATE_INTERVAL;
 /// Amount of seconds that can elapse before we consider a [`Peer`] as dead from the routers POV.