diff --git a/pacman.conf b/pacman.conf
index 5abd8bba5..2c5a344ae 100644
--- a/pacman.conf
+++ b/pacman.conf
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Architecture = auto
 # We cannot check disk space from within a chroot environment
 #CheckSpace
 #VerbosePkgLists
-ParallelDownloads = 5
+ParallelDownloads = 64
 DownloadUser = alpm
 #DisableSandbox