diff --git a/mirrormanager2/crawler/connector.py b/mirrormanager2/crawler/connector.py
index fee09b00..53104851 100755
--- a/mirrormanager2/crawler/connector.py
+++ b/mirrormanager2/crawler/connector.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 from mirrormanager2 import lib as mmlib
 
-from .constants import RETRIES
+from .constants import RETRIES, RETRIES_MAX_INTERVAL
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ def _get_file(self, url):
         backoff.expo,
         TryLater,
         max_tries=RETRIES,
+        max_value=RETRIES_MAX_INTERVAL,
         on_backoff=_on_backoff,
         on_giveup=_on_giveup,
         logger=None,  # custom logging
diff --git a/mirrormanager2/crawler/constants.py b/mirrormanager2/crawler/constants.py
index afdc4c61..02463ac2 100755
--- a/mirrormanager2/crawler/constants.py
+++ b/mirrormanager2/crawler/constants.py
@@ -14,3 +14,4 @@
 
 # Number of times to retry a connection
 RETRIES = 10
+RETRIES_MAX_INTERVAL = 10  # in seconds