diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 32c3c7c82ed..889e5667910 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 ### 🛠 Improvements
 
 - [11209](https://github.com/vegaprotocol/vega/issues/11209) - Publish ongoing games data.
+- [11242](https://github.com/vegaprotocol/vega/issues/11242) - Add configuration to visor to help control binary retries a bit better.
 - [11196](https://github.com/vegaprotocol/vega/issues/11196) - Add an active field in the price monitoring bounds payload.
 - [11211](https://github.com/vegaprotocol/vega/issues/11211) - Liquidation engine includes `vAMM` shapes as available volume.
 - [11217](https://github.com/vegaprotocol/vega/issues/11217) - Allow market proposals to override risk factors.
diff --git a/visor/config/visor_config.go b/visor/config/visor_config.go
index 9fa176cb6ef..ed25c404f81 100644
--- a/visor/config/visor_config.go
+++ b/visor/config/visor_config.go
@@ -128,9 +128,20 @@ type VisorConfigFile struct {
 			The `maxNumberOfFirstConnectionRetries` is only taken into account during the first start up of the Core node process - not restarts.
 		note: |
 			There is a 2 second delay between each attempt. Setting the max retry number to 5 means Visor will try to establish a connection 5 times in 10 seconds.
-		default: 10
+		default: 175000
 	*/
 	MaxNumberOfFirstConnectionRetries int `toml:"maxNumberOfFirstConnectionRetries,optional"`
+	/*
+		description: |
+			Visor communicates with the core node via RPC API.
+			This variable allows a validator to specify how many times Visor should try to establish a connection to the core node before the Visor process fails.
+			The `MaxNumberOfRestartConnectionRetries` is only taken into account after the first start up of the Core node process where it is expected that the
+			time to restart will be much shorter than when originally started.
+		note: |
+			There is a 2 second delay between each attempt. Setting the max retry number to 5 means Visor will try to establish a connection 5 times in 10 seconds.
+		default: 10
+	*/
+	MaxNumberOfRestartConnectionRetries int `toml:"maxNumberOfRestartConnectionRetries,optional"`
 	/*
 		description: |
 			Defines the maximum number of restarts in case any of
@@ -220,12 +231,13 @@ func DefaultVisorConfig(log *logging.Logger, homePath string) *VisorConfig {
 		homePath:   homePath,
 		configPath: path.Join(homePath, configFileName),
 		data: &VisorConfigFile{
-			UpgradeFolders:                    map[string]string{"vX.X.X": "vX.X.X"},
-			MaxNumberOfRestarts:               3,
-			MaxNumberOfFirstConnectionRetries: 175000,
-			RestartsDelaySeconds:              5,
-			StopDelaySeconds:                  0,
-			StopSignalTimeoutSeconds:          15,
+			UpgradeFolders:                      map[string]string{"vX.X.X": "vX.X.X"},
+			MaxNumberOfRestarts:                 3,
+			MaxNumberOfFirstConnectionRetries:   175000,
+			MaxNumberOfRestartConnectionRetries: 10,
+			RestartsDelaySeconds:                5,
+			StopDelaySeconds:                    0,
+			StopSignalTimeoutSeconds:            15,
 			AutoInstall: AutoInstallConfig{
 				Enabled:               true,
 				GithubRepositoryOwner: "vegaprotocol",
@@ -367,6 +379,13 @@ func (pc *VisorConfig) MaxNumberOfFirstConnectionRetries() int {
 	return pc.data.MaxNumberOfFirstConnectionRetries
 }
 
+func (pc *VisorConfig) MaxNumberOfRestartConnectionRetries() int {
+	pc.mut.RLock()
+	defer pc.mut.RUnlock()
+
+	return pc.data.MaxNumberOfRestartConnectionRetries
+}
+
 func (pc *VisorConfig) RestartsDelaySeconds() int {
 	pc.mut.RLock()
 	defer pc.mut.RUnlock()
diff --git a/visor/visor.go b/visor/visor.go
index eb0cfb89187..7a5f845e7bb 100644
--- a/visor/visor.go
+++ b/visor/visor.go
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ import (
 
 const (
 	upgradeAPICallTickerDuration = time.Second * 2
-	maxUpgradeStatusErrs         = 10
 	namedLogger                  = "visor"
 )
 
@@ -114,8 +113,11 @@ func (v *Visor) Run(ctx context.Context) error {
 			runConf.Vega.RCP.HTTPPath,
 		)
 
+		// how many times to try and connect on the first start up of the binaries
 		maxNumberOfFirstConnectionRetries := v.conf.MaxNumberOfFirstConnectionRetries()
 
+		// how many times to try and connect in subsequent restarts of the binaries where it is expected to be much quicker
+		maxUpgradeStatusErrs := v.conf.MaxNumberOfRestartConnectionRetries()
 		numOfUpgradeStatusErrs := 0
 		maxNumRestarts := v.conf.MaxNumberOfRestarts()
 		restartsDelay := time.Second * time.Duration(v.conf.RestartsDelaySeconds())
@@ -162,12 +164,13 @@ func (v *Visor) Run(ctx context.Context) error {
 				upStatus, err := c.UpgradeStatus(ctx)
 				if err != nil {
 					// Binary has not started yet - waiting for first startup
-					if numOfRestarts == 0 {
-						if numOfUpgradeStatusErrs > maxNumberOfFirstConnectionRetries {
+					isFirstStartup := numOfRestarts == 0
+					if isFirstStartup {
+						if numOfUpgradeStatusErrs >= maxNumberOfFirstConnectionRetries {
 							return failedToGetStatusErr(maxNumberOfFirstConnectionRetries, err)
 						}
 					} else { // Binary has been started already. Something has failed after the startup
-						if numOfUpgradeStatusErrs > maxUpgradeStatusErrs {
+						if numOfUpgradeStatusErrs >= maxUpgradeStatusErrs {
 							return failedToGetStatusErr(maxUpgradeStatusErrs, err)
 						}
 					}
@@ -176,12 +179,17 @@ func (v *Visor) Run(ctx context.Context) error {
 
 					numOfUpgradeStatusErrs++
 
-					v.log.Info("Still waiting for vega to start...", logging.Int("attemptLeft", maxUpgradeStatusErrs-numOfUpgradeStatusErrs))
+					attemptsLeft := maxUpgradeStatusErrs - numOfUpgradeStatusErrs
+					if isFirstStartup {
+						attemptsLeft = maxNumberOfFirstConnectionRetries - numOfUpgradeStatusErrs
+					}
+					v.log.Info("Still waiting for vega to start...", logging.Int("attemptLeft", attemptsLeft))
 
 					break
 				}
 
 				if !upStatus.ReadyToUpgrade {
+					numOfUpgradeStatusErrs = 0
 					break
 				}