diff --git a/pages/common/wget.md b/pages/common/wget.md
index 584d6fa95..74e79dfc5 100644
--- a/pages/common/wget.md
+++ b/pages/common/wget.md
@@ -22,3 +22,7 @@
 - FTP download with username and password:
 
 `wget --ftp-user={{username}} --ftp-password={{password}} {{url}}`
+
+- Retry a given number of times if the download doesn't succeed at first:
+
+`wget -t {{number_of_retries}} {{url}}`