diff --git a/src/lib/waku.ts b/src/lib/waku.ts
index 737be510b5..45c520c2ba 100644
--- a/src/lib/waku.ts
+++ b/src/lib/waku.ts
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ export interface CreateOptions {
    * Set keep alive frequency in seconds: Waku will send a ping request to each peer
    * after the set number of seconds. Set to 0 to disable the keep alive feature
    *
-   * @default 10
+   * @default 0
    */
   keepAlive?: number;
   /**