diff --git a/check_staged_release.sh b/check_staged_release.sh
index 573da69..ae3610b 100755
--- a/check_staged_release.sh
+++ b/check_staged_release.sh
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
  echo "################################################################################"
 
  wget \
-  -r -np "--reject=html,txt" "--follow-tags=" \
+  -e "robots=off" --wait 1 -r -np "--reject=html,txt" "--follow-tags=" \
   -P "${DOWNLOAD}/${STAGING}" -nH "--cut-dirs=3" --ignore-length --no-check-certificate \
   "http://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachefelix-${STAGING}/org/apache/felix/"