diff --git a/docs/examples/externalsocket.c b/docs/examples/externalsocket.c
index bb29b0e449..292a596215 100644
--- a/docs/examples/externalsocket.c
+++ b/docs/examples/externalsocket.c
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ int main(void)
 
 #ifdef WIN32
   WSADATA wsaData;
-  int initwsa = WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2, 0), &wsaData);
+  int initwsa = WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2, 2), &wsaData);
   if(initwsa) {
     printf("WSAStartup failed: %d\n", initwsa);
     return 1;