diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index fb12acf..d90f52d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ implementation of new features, but has no breaking changes for the CLI.
   downloaded.
 * Improved speed estimate, displays recent speed instead of average speed since
   the start of download.
+* Decreased default concurrent downloads to 5. This seems to be enough to
+  saturate the download link in most cases. You can override this by setting the
+  `-w` option. Please test and report back if this works for you.
 
 ### [1.22.0 (2022-06-25)](https://github.com/ihabunek/twitch-dl/releases/tag/1.22.0)
 
diff --git a/changelog.yaml b/changelog.yaml
index 1ae0caf..961f8d2 100644
--- a/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelog.yaml
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@
     - "Allow passing multiple video ids to `download` to download multiple videos successively."
     - "Improved progress meter, updates on each chunk downloaded, instead of each VOD downloaded."
     - "Improved speed estimate, displays recent speed instead of average speed since the start of download."
+    - |
+      Decreased default concurrent downloads to 5. This seems to be enough to
+      saturate the download link in most cases. You can override this by setting
+      the `-w` option. Please test and report back if this works for you.
 
 1.22.0:
   date: 2022-06-25
diff --git a/docs/changelog.md b/docs/changelog.md
index fb12acf..d90f52d 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.md
+++ b/docs/changelog.md
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ implementation of new features, but has no breaking changes for the CLI.
   downloaded.
 * Improved speed estimate, displays recent speed instead of average speed since
   the start of download.
+* Decreased default concurrent downloads to 5. This seems to be enough to
+  saturate the download link in most cases. You can override this by setting the
+  `-w` option. Please test and report back if this works for you.
 
 ### [1.22.0 (2022-06-25)](https://github.com/ihabunek/twitch-dl/releases/tag/1.22.0)
 
diff --git a/docs/commands/download.md b/docs/commands/download.md
index f2f607f..5e59fd4 100644
--- a/docs/commands/download.md
+++ b/docs/commands/download.md
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ twitch-dl download <videos> [FLAGS] [OPTIONS]
 <tbody>
 <tr>
     <td class="code">-w, --max-workers</td>
-    <td>Maximal number of threads for downloading vods concurrently (default 20)</td>
+    <td>Number of workers for downloading vods concurrently (default 5)</td>
 </tr>
 
 <tr>
diff --git a/twitchdl/console.py b/twitchdl/console.py
index b568eaf..595578c 100644
--- a/twitchdl/console.py
+++ b/twitchdl/console.py
@@ -166,10 +166,9 @@ COMMANDS = [
                 "nargs": "+",
             }),
             (["-w", "--max-workers"], {
-                "help": "Maximal number of threads for downloading vods "
-                        "concurrently (default 20)",
+                "help": "Number of workers for downloading vods concurrently (default 5)",
                 "type": int,
-                "default": 20,
+                "default": 5,
             }),
             (["-s", "--start"], {
                 "help": "Download video from this time (hh:mm or hh:mm:ss)",