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Optimal connection timeout for remote connections

Hi, I am developing an installer with WPF, that needs to validate an SQL connection string, that may contain either a local SQL Server instance or a remote SQL Server instance. So far we are using the default timeout of 15 seconds, but the user may not want to wait that long, so what is the least amount of time a connection to a remote server can be made? Thanks.
sql-server-2014connectionc#installer
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I wouldn't worry about it. Better to allow *up to* 15 seconds wait than use a short timeout and have lots of false positive install fails.
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