the situation is that there is an installation which calls a web service to get some information which is useful but not necessary for the applicaiton.

Now during the installation, it is possible that the network may be down (lags, slow service etc.) or the service is not present due to some reasons.

what i want to do here is that the installation should wait for about 5 secs after the call to the web service and then proceed regardless of the results of the function call (i.e not to wait if the service cannot be contacted for some reason )

how can i achive that.

THnkx