Socket timeout interval

[J. Landman Gay]

Sarah Reichelt wrote:
> On 12/18/06, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
>> runrev260805 at m-r-d.de wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > i had a similar problem a few days ago. Changed it to 40 sec, as the
>> > ftp server to which was connected was terribly slow at the login
>> > process.
>>
>> That seems a little high for what I'm doing, since the user may want to
>> download many files in sequence. But I'll experiment.
>> >
>> >> I'd like an interval that doesn't hang up the process too terribly
>> >> long, but still waits long enough. Is there such a thing?
>> >
>> > why not including a preference settings for that in menu, so the
>> > customer itself can change the default interval.
>>
>> That's a very good idea. Thanks for the suggestion.
>>
> 
> What sort of connection does this person have? Rather than asking them
> to enter a number which may mean nothing to them, if you ask them to
> select their approximate connection speed from a popup menu, you can
> adjust the timeout accordingly. You can also tell them to try altering
> this, if they have problems at any time.

It's a DSL connection. He's not a novice so entering a number wouldn't 
be too much problem for him (thouugh it might be for some other users.) 
Apparently his line was flakey for a while and he had the DSL provider 
out to repair it recently. I thought that would solve the problem (which 
has been very long-standing,) but it still times out on him even so. Of 
course, anything I do for this person probably won't generalize to 
anyone else, but I was sort of hoping I could come close.

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