diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5fd8e05b9..109bdf9f9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 ## 1.2.1 (unreleased)
 
+IMPROVEMENTS:
+
+  - Get rid of arbitrary 4 second sleep when connecting via SSH. The
+    issue it was attempting to work around may be gone now.
+
 BUG FIXES:
 
   - Chef solo run list properly set. [GH-1608]
diff --git a/plugins/communicators/ssh/communicator.rb b/plugins/communicators/ssh/communicator.rb
index 17cd54dcf..8223d5a4b 100644
--- a/plugins/communicators/ssh/communicator.rb
+++ b/plugins/communicators/ssh/communicator.rb
@@ -238,11 +238,6 @@ module VagrantPlugins
 
         @connection = connection
 
-        # This is hacky but actually helps with some issues where
-        # Net::SSH is simply not robust enough to handle... see
-        # issue #391, #455, etc.
-        sleep 4
-
         # Yield the connection that is ready to be used and
         # return the value of the block
         return yield connection if block_given?