diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/templates/settings.tmpl b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/templates/settings.tmpl
index c84edc9c9..35e3a0e64 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/templates/settings.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/templates/settings.tmpl
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ ENABLED_SPIDERS_FILE = '%s/conf/enabled_spiders.list' % __project_name__.__path_
 DEFAULT_ITEM_CLASS = 'scrapy.item.ScrapedItem'
 USER_AGENT = '%s/%s' % (BOT_NAME, BOT_VERSION)
 DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT = 600
+
+#Global timeout between sucessive downloads (can be overrided by spider
+#attribute download_timeout
+#DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT = 0
+
 MYSQL_CONNECTION_SETTINGS = {"charset": "utf8" }
 MYSQL_CONNECTION_PING_PERIOD = 600