diff --git a/gluon/gluon-alfred/files/lib/gluon/alfred/announce.sh b/gluon/gluon-alfred/files/lib/gluon/alfred/announce.sh
index d4533d3..ba17f32 100755
--- a/gluon/gluon-alfred/files/lib/gluon/alfred/announce.sh
+++ b/gluon/gluon-alfred/files/lib/gluon/alfred/announce.sh
@@ -15,19 +15,9 @@ fi
 # set defaults
 [ -z "$ALFRED_DATA_TYPE" ] && ALFRED_DATA_TYPE=158
 [ -z "$NET_IF" ] && NET_IF=br-client
-[ -z "$MAX_WAIT" ] && MAX_WAIT=299
 
 set -e
 
-# To avoid mass flooding the network every five minutes with all clients
-# simultaneously, wait for a random time between 0 and 300 seconds, but fixed
-# for each device to maintain 5 minutes between updates.
-# Calculated using first 3 hex digits of the primary MAC address' MD5 hash
-if [ "$1" != "--no-sleep" ]; then
-	DELAY=$((0x$(sysconfig primary_mac | md5sum | head -c3) * $MAX_WAIT / (16**3)))
-	sleep $DELAY
-fi
-
 json_init
 json_add_string "hostname" "$(uci get 'system.@system[0].hostname')"
 
diff --git a/gluon/gluon-alfred/files/lib/gluon/cron/alfred b/gluon/gluon-alfred/files/lib/gluon/cron/alfred
index 98cc382..f9bde2f 100644
--- a/gluon/gluon-alfred/files/lib/gluon/cron/alfred
+++ b/gluon/gluon-alfred/files/lib/gluon/cron/alfred
@@ -1 +1 @@
-*/5 * * * * /lib/gluon/alfred/announce.sh
+* * * * * /lib/gluon/alfred/announce.sh