6.5$ is the average transaction fee to confirm within 1hr on Bitcoin though so goodluck on this transaction.
I do not think that waiting is really helpful, when the transaction fee is small, it may not be enough to make the transaction and the transaction will be canceled. I experienced this a few days ago, when I tried to keep my transaction fees to a minimum. And the transaction was dropped, I spent both a transaction fee and not being able to trade it, then I had to pay a bigger fee, transactions with small fees was really horrible.