diff --git a/changelog.d/18855.misc b/changelog.d/18855.misc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6f87c4ef2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/18855.misc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Link [upstream Twisted bug](https://github.com/twisted/twisted/issues/12498) tracking the problem that explains why we have to use a `Producer` to write bytes to the request.
diff --git a/synapse/http/server.py b/synapse/http/server.py
index f8f58ec6d..45c74d68f 100644
--- a/synapse/http/server.py
+++ b/synapse/http/server.py
@@ -913,8 +913,9 @@ def _write_bytes_to_request(request: Request, bytes_to_write: bytes) -> None:
     # once (via `Request.write`) is that doing so starts the timeout for the
     # next request to be received: so if it takes longer than 60s to stream back
     # the response to the client, the client never gets it.
+    # c.f https://github.com/twisted/twisted/issues/12498
     #
-    # The correct solution is to use a Producer; then the timeout is only
+    # One workaround is to use a `Producer`; then the timeout is only
     # started once all of the content is sent over the TCP connection.
 
     # To make sure we don't write all of the bytes at once we split it up into