timeout setting for gefmire.

Hi,

We have a central gemfire cache running on a server,   and a .NET client with no local cache who access the server .   because sometimes the client need fetch a large amount of data from server,   we configurated a big ReadTimeout value to avoid timeout execption.  but with that big value setting ,   even the remote server is reallly down,     Client side will also wait for long time until it fails,    Can you advise how to set it to return immediatly if the server is not available .

Thanks

Yao