diff --git a/scrapy/templates/project/module/settings.py.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/project/module/settings.py.tmpl
index f4832dd27..302d96b17 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/project/module/settings.py.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/project/module/settings.py.tmpl
@@ -69,16 +69,17 @@ NEWSPIDER_MODULE = '$project_name.spiders'
 # See http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/autothrottle.html
 # NOTE: AutoThrottle will honour the standard settings for concurrency and delay
 #AUTOTHROTTLE_ENABLED=True
-# The initial download delay (default: 5)
-#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY=3
-# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies (default: 60)
-#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY=90
+# The initial download delay
+#AUTOTHROTTLE_START_DELAY=5
+# The maximum download delay to be set in case of high latencies
+#AUTOTHROTTLE_MAX_DELAY=60
 # Enable showing throttling stats for every response received:
-#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG=True
+#AUTOTHROTTLE_DEBUG=False
 
 # Enable and configure HTTP caching (disabled by default)
 # See http://scrapy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#httpcache-middleware-settings
 #HTTPCACHE_ENABLED=True
-#HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS=3600
+#HTTPCACHE_EXPIRATION_SECS=0
 #HTTPCACHE_DIR='httpcache'
-#HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES=[404]
+#HTTPCACHE_IGNORE_HTTP_CODES=[]
+#HTTPCACHE_STORAGE='scrapy.contrib.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'