diff --git a/images/router/haproxy/conf/haproxy-config.template b/images/router/haproxy/conf/haproxy-config.template
index 797db3226..0cf5f1308 100644
--- a/images/router/haproxy/conf/haproxy-config.template
+++ b/images/router/haproxy/conf/haproxy-config.template
@@ -163,9 +163,6 @@ defaults
   timeout http-request {{ firstMatch $timeSpecPattern (env "ROUTER_SLOWLORIS_TIMEOUT") "10s" }}
   timeout http-keep-alive {{ firstMatch $timeSpecPattern (env "ROUTER_SLOWLORIS_HTTP_KEEPALIVE") "300s" }}
 
-  # Long timeout for WebSocket connections.
-  timeout tunnel {{ firstMatch $timeSpecPattern (env "ROUTER_DEFAULT_TUNNEL_TIMEOUT") "1h" }}
-
   {{- if isTrue (env "ROUTER_ENABLE_COMPRESSION") }}
   compression algo gzip
   compression type {{ env "ROUTER_COMPRESSION_MIME" "text/html text/plain text/css" }}
@@ -586,6 +583,8 @@ backend {{ genBackendNamePrefix $cfg.TLSTermination }}:{{ $cfgIdx }}
         {{- end }}
         {{- with $value := clipHAProxyTimeoutValue (firstMatch $timeSpecPattern (index $cfg.Annotations "haproxy.router.openshift.io/timeout-tunnel")) }}
   timeout tunnel  {{ $value }}
+        {{- else }}
+  timeout tunnel {{ firstMatch $timeSpecPattern (env "ROUTER_DEFAULT_TUNNEL_TIMEOUT") "1h" }}
         {{- end }}
 
         {{- if isTrue (index $cfg.Annotations "haproxy.router.openshift.io/rate-limit-connections") }}