Specifying a large value for this option is useful if the network or the
destination host is down, so that Wget can wait long enough to
-reasonably expect the network error to be fixed before the retry.
+reasonably expect the network error to be fixed before the retry. The
+waiting interval specified by this function is influenced by
+@code{--random-wait}, which see.
@cindex retries, waiting between
@cindex waiting between retries
Some web sites may perform log analysis to identify retrieval programs
such as Wget by looking for statistically significant similarities in
the time between requests. This option causes the time between requests
-to vary between 0 and 2 * @var{wait} seconds, where @var{wait} was
+to vary between 0.5 and 1.5 * @var{wait} seconds, where @var{wait} was
specified using the @samp{--wait} option, in order to mask Wget's
presence from such analysis.