diff --git a/customerio/client_base.py b/customerio/client_base.py
index 388ad14..ecb2370 100644
--- a/customerio/client_base.py
+++ b/customerio/client_base.py
@@ -4,10 +4,12 @@
 from __future__ import division
 from datetime import datetime, timezone
 import math
+import socket
 
 from requests import Session
 from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter
 from requests.packages.urllib3.util.retry import Retry
+from urllib3.connection import HTTPConnection
 
 
 class CustomerIOException(Exception):
@@ -18,6 +20,14 @@ def __init__(self, retries=3, timeout=10, backoff_factor=0.02):
         self.timeout = timeout
         self.retries = retries
 
+        # Set the TCP keepalive settings to the values dicated by our server-side configuration.
+        HTTPConnection.default_socket_options = ( HTTPConnection.default_socket_options + [
+            (socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_KEEPALIVE, 1),
+            (socket.SOL_TCP, socket.TCP_KEEPIDLE, 300),
+            (socket.SOL_TCP, socket.TCP_KEEPINTVL, 60)
+            ]
+        )
+
         self.http = Session()
         # Retry request a number of times before raising an exception
         # also define backoff_factor to delay each retry