Add wget wait time for retries

[maxibor]

When downloading from EBI via ftp, I get frequent retries (both via wget, and via process retries) because of a failed: Connection refused.

Adding a waiting time seems to help a little bit

excerpt from wget manual

-w seconds
       --wait=seconds
           Wait the specified number of seconds between the retrievals.  Use of this option is recommended, as it lightens the
           server load by making the requests less frequent.  Instead of in seconds, the time can be specified in minutes using
           the "m" suffix, in hours using "h" suffix, or in days using "d" suffix.

           Specifying a large value for this option is useful if the network or the destination host is down, so that Wget can
           wait long enough to reasonably expect the network error to be fixed before the retry.  The waiting interval
           specified by this function is influenced by "--random-wait", which see.

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[github-actions]

nf-core pipelines lint overall result: Passed ✅ ⚠️

Posted for pipeline commit 6869637

+| ✅ 181 tests passed       |+
#| ❔  14 tests were ignored |#
!| ❗   1 tests had warnings |!

Details

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• pipeline_todos - TODO string in nextflow.config: Optionally, you can add a pipeline-specific nf-core config at https://github.com/nf-core/configs

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• files_unchanged - File ignored due to lint config: docs/images/nf-core-fetchngs_logo_light.png
• files_unchanged - File ignored due to lint config: docs/images/nf-core-fetchngs_logo_dark.png
• actions_awstest - 'awstest.yml' workflow not found: /home/runner/work/fetchngs/fetchngs/.github/workflows/awstest.yml
• multiqc_config - multiqc_config
• modules_config - modules_config

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• files_exist - File found: conf/test.config
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• files_exist - File found: docs/images/nf-core-fetchngs_logo_light.png
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• nfcore_yml - nf-core version in .nf-core.yml is set to the latest version: 3.3.2
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Run details

• nf-core/tools version 3.3.2
• Run at 2026-04-24 14:16:51

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[muffato]

That's useful to have. Thank you !