diff --git a/inxi b/inxi
index 1b1e1bf..15e2ce0 100755
--- a/inxi
+++ b/inxi
@@ -6658,7 +6658,7 @@ get_networking_wan_ip_data()
 	# awk has bad regex handling so checking it with grep -E instead
 	# ip=$( echo  2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 | gawk  --re-interval '
 	# ip=$( wget -q -O - $WAN_IP_URL | gawk  --re-interval '
-	ip=$( wget -t 1 -T $WGET_TIMEOUT -q -O - $WAN_IP_URL | gawk  --re-interval '
+	ip=$( wget -t 4 -T $WGET_TIMEOUT -q -O - $WAN_IP_URL | gawk  --re-interval '
 	{
 		#gsub("\n","",$2")
 		print $NF