diff --git a/lib/connection/connection_config.js b/lib/connection/connection_config.js
index ceef29f12..4b37a62b9 100644
--- a/lib/connection/connection_config.js
+++ b/lib/connection/connection_config.js
@@ -964,7 +964,7 @@ function createParameters()
     },
     {
       name: PARAM_RETRY_SF_MAX_SLEEP_TIME,
-      defaultValue: 300,
+      defaultValue: 16,
       validate: isNonNegativeNumber
     }
   ];
diff --git a/lib/services/sf.js b/lib/services/sf.js
index c106f598f..1c89a5d74 100644
--- a/lib/services/sf.js
+++ b/lib/services/sf.js
@@ -1207,8 +1207,9 @@ StateConnecting.prototype.continue = function ()
           isRetryableNetworkError(err) || isRetryableHttpError(err)))
         {
           numRetries++;
-          sleep = Util.nextSleepTime(1, cap, sleep);
-          // sleep = Util.jitteredSleepTime(numRetries, cap);
+          // sleep = Util.nextSleepTime(1, cap, sleep);
+          sleep = Util.jitteredSleepTime(numRetries, sleep, cap);
+          console.log(sleep);
           setTimeout(sendRequest, sleep * 1000);
           return;
         }
diff --git a/lib/util.js b/lib/util.js
index 5dab8aefd..52dc92cd6 100644
--- a/lib/util.js
+++ b/lib/util.js
@@ -406,6 +406,7 @@ exports.isNode = function ()
  * Returns the next sleep time calculated by exponential backoff with
  * decorrelated jitter.
  *  sleep = min(cap, random_between(base, sleep * 3))
+ * 
  * for more details, check out:
  * http://www.awsarchitectureblog.com/2015/03/backoff.html
  * @param base minimum seconds
@@ -420,9 +421,9 @@ exports.nextSleepTime = function (
     Math.min(base, previousSleep * 3));
 };
 
-exports.jitteredSleepTime = function (numofRetries,maxSleepTime) {
-  const temp = Math.min(maxSleepTime, 2** numofRetries);
-  return temp / 2 + getJitter(temp);
+exports.jitteredSleepTime = function (numofRetries, currentSleepTime, maxSleepTime) {
+  const nextSleepTime = Math.min(maxSleepTime, 2 ** numofRetries);
+  return nextSleepTime + getJitter(currentSleepTime);
 
 }
 
@@ -433,7 +434,7 @@ function getJitter (curWaitTime) {
 }
 
 function chooseRandom (firstNumber, secondNumber) {
-  const random = Math.floor(Math.random());
+  const random = Math.floor(Math.random()*1000);
   return random % 2 === 0 ? firstNumber : secondNumber;
 } 
 /**