diff --git a/dotfiles/.config/wgetrc b/dotfiles/.config/wgetrc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..eb531a17
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dotfiles/.config/wgetrc
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+# Use the server-provided last modification date, if available
+timestamping = on
+
+# Do not go up in the directory structure when downloading recursively
+no_parent = on
+
+# Wait 60 seconds before timing out. This applies to all timeouts: DNS, connect and read. (The default read timeout is 15 minutes!)
+timeout = 60
+
+# Retry a few times when a download fails, but don’t overdo it. (The default is 20!)
+tries = 3
+
+# Retry even when the connection was refused
+retry_connrefused = on
+
+# Use the last component of a redirection URL for the local file name
+trust_server_names = on
+
+# Follow FTP links from HTML documents by default
+follow_ftp = on
+
+# Add a `.html` extension to `text/html` or `application/xhtml+xml` files that lack one, or a `.css` extension to `text/css` files that lack one
+adjust_extension = on
+
+# Use UTF-8 as the default system encoding
+# Disabled as it makes `wget` builds that don’t support this feature unusable.
+# Does anyone know how to conditionally configure a wget setting?
+# http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/34730/6040
+#local_encoding = UTF-8
+
+# Ignore `robots.txt` and `<meta name=robots content=nofollow>`
+robots = off
+
+# Print the HTTP and FTP server responses
+server_response = on
+
+# Disguise as IE 9 on Windows 7
+user_agent = Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0)
diff --git a/dotfiles/.profile b/dotfiles/.profile
index 2052ed89..8c497b52 100644
--- a/dotfiles/.profile
+++ b/dotfiles/.profile
@@ -302,3 +302,6 @@ alias yubikey-gpg-stub='gpg-connect-agent "scd serialno" "learn --force" /bye'
 ### Vagrant
 export VAGRANT_DEFAULT_PROVIDER=virtualbox
 export VAGRANT_HOME="$HOME/.local/vagrant.d"
+
+### wget
+export WGETRC="$HOME/.config/wgetrc"