diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst
index ea301563d..3f837760b 100644
--- a/docs/faq.rst
+++ b/docs/faq.rst
@@ -178,13 +178,14 @@ What does the response status code 999 means?
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 999 is a custom reponse status code used by Yahoo sites to throttle requests.
-Try slowing down the crawling speed by using a download delay in your spider::
+Try slowing down the crawling speed by using a download delay of ``2`` (or
+higher) in your spider::
 
     class MySpider(CrawlSpider):
 
         name = 'myspider'
 
-        download_delay = 1
+        download_delay = 2
 
         # [ ... rest of the spider code ... ]