diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e87435d..db34db4 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 requests~=2.20
 ifaddr~=0.1
-neon-utils~=1.7
+# TODO: network patching dependency resolution
+neon-utils[network]~=1.8,>=1.11.1a3
 ovos-utils~=0.0,>=0.0.28
 ovos-bus-client~=0.0,>=0.0.5
 ovos-workshop~=0.0,>=0.0.12
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