how to wait for a return message with time out

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C#

TCP/IP

server-control

Hello everyone
I want to write a simple server-client application , the main pursue is for it is to run a script of some type via GUI after connection established , so basically
I want to make connection conformation

what I have now is

internal bool connect(remoteIP)
{
 if ( network.startping(RemoteIP))
 {
  peer1.write("Hello!") ---> waits for "connected" until time out 
  if (Isconnected) return true
 }
 else 
  {
   try again after few sec with finite number of repeats
  }
 return false
}

1) what can I do to wait I saw a way with

Task wait = new task.factory(()=> doDwaiting())

with I think can work , but I I'm missing some logic here 2) how can I make the return i think I can Do it with int Counter and goto but it doesn't look like the "good" way to go

what can I do ?