When working with network programming using TCP, ... Note that you should incorporate the System.Net and System.Net.Sockets namespaces in your program to work with sockets. using System.Net; ...

As ubiquitous as TCP/IP is, network programming interfaces have hardly advanced since the invention of the “Berkeley sockets” low-level networking API.

Socket programming boils down to two systems communicating with one another. Generally, network communication comes in two flavors: Transport Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP).

In .NET 2.0, the System.Net.Sockets.Socket class now includes a SendTimeout parameter, so you could easily handle it if you upgraded. If you want to do it in 1.1, then you will probably have to ...