diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index f5ab11636d8..9b6aeef6453 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4054,9 +4054,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "libc"
-version = "0.2.167"
+version = "0.2.169"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "09d6582e104315a817dff97f75133544b2e094ee22447d2acf4a74e189ba06fc"
+checksum = "b5aba8db14291edd000dfcc4d620c7ebfb122c613afb886ca8803fa4e128a20a"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "libm"
@@ -10232,9 +10232,9 @@ checksum = "1f3ccbac311fea05f86f61904b462b55fb3df8837a366dfc601a0161d0532f20"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio"
-version = "1.40.0"
+version = "1.43.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e2b070231665d27ad9ec9b8df639893f46727666c6767db40317fbe920a5d998"
+checksum = "3d61fa4ffa3de412bfea335c6ecff681de2b609ba3c77ef3e00e521813a9ed9e"
 dependencies = [
  "backtrace",
  "bytes",
@@ -10261,9 +10261,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-macros"
-version = "2.4.0"
+version = "2.5.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "693d596312e88961bc67d7f1f97af8a70227d9f90c31bba5806eec004978d752"
+checksum = "6e06d43f1345a3bcd39f6a56dbb7dcab2ba47e68e8ac134855e7e2bdbaf8cab8"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index aa462956acd..db440a3d776 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ tar = "0.4.43"
 tempfile = "3.15"
 thiserror = "2.0"
 time = "0.3.37"
-tokio = "1.39"
+tokio = "1.43"
 tokio-stream = "0.1.17"
 tokio-test = "0.4.4"
 tokio-tun = "0.11.5"
diff --git a/nym-node-status-api/nym-node-status-api/src/monitor/geodata.rs b/nym-node-status-api/nym-node-status-api/src/monitor/geodata.rs
index 9bafc2b4ad8..7801c465dce 100644
--- a/nym-node-status-api/nym-node-status-api/src/monitor/geodata.rs
+++ b/nym-node-status-api/nym-node-status-api/src/monitor/geodata.rs
@@ -151,8 +151,10 @@ pub(crate) mod ipinfo {
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod api_regression {
 
+    use tokio::time::sleep;
+
     use super::*;
-    use std::{env::var, sync::LazyLock};
+    use std::{env::var, sync::LazyLock, time::Duration};
 
     static IPINFO_TOKEN: LazyLock<Option<String>> = LazyLock::new(|| var("IPINFO_API_TOKEN").ok());
     static CI: LazyLock<Option<String>> = LazyLock::new(|| var("CI").ok());
@@ -174,6 +176,9 @@ mod api_regression {
             let location_result = client.locate_ip(my_ip).await;
             assert!(location_result.is_ok(), "Did ipinfo response change?");
 
+            // Artifical sleep to avoid rate limit
+            sleep(Duration::from_secs(2)).await;
+
             client
                 .check_remaining_bandwidth()
                 .await