Timeout for broken Internet is 540 seconds and cannot be adjusted on Windows

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--prefer-ffmpeg', '--ffmpeg-location', 'D:\\MEDIA\\Videos\\YouTube\\Download\\ffmpeg\\bin', '--restrict-filenames', '--embed-thumbnail', '--add-metadata', '--xattrs', '-f', '137+140', '-v', '-i', 'Lf42yiZP3og']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.08.13
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-10-10.0.10586
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-81831-g97e7f03, ffprobe N-81831-g97e7f03, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Lf42yiZP3og: Downloading webpage
[youtube] Lf42yiZP3og: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] Lf42yiZP3og: Extracting video information
[youtube] Lf42yiZP3og: Downloading MPD manifest
[youtube] Lf42yiZP3og: Downloading thumbnail ...
[youtube] Lf42yiZP3og: Writing thumbnail to: Chinese_Spouting_Bowl_in_Slow_Motion_-_The_Slow_Mo_Guys-Lf42yiZP3og.jpg
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://r5---sn-q4fl6nlz.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id=2dfe36ca264fde88&itag=137&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&ms=au&mv=m&mn=sn-q4fl6nlz&pl=19&mm=31&ei=IcmPWeHtC8S0Dcy8qJAI&initcwndbps=5591250&ratebypass=yes&mime=video/mp4&gir=yes&clen=123940748&lmt=1502444727096763&dur=310.680&mt=1502595279&signature=5B993CACE4C8FAF823EDF579E628D9A5B71CF643.86D430A0FC677BD19847C73927D96ADBCA52F33F&key=dg_yt0&ip=75.245.60.104&ipbits=0&expire=1502616961&sparams=ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,source,requiressl,ms,mv,mn,pl,mm,ei,initcwndbps,ratebypass,mime,gir,clen,lmt,dur'
[download] Destination: Chinese_Spouting_Bowl_in_Slow_Motion_-_The_Slow_Mo_Guys-Lf42yiZP3og.f137.mp4
[download]  15.6% of 118.20MiB at 54.15KiB/s ETA 31:25   ERROR: unable to download video data: The read operation timed out
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpc3a66tbr\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1857, in process_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpc3a66tbr\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 1805, in dl
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpc3a66tbr\build\youtube_dl\downloader\common.py", line 361, in download
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpc3a66tbr\build\youtube_dl\downloader\http.py", line 165, in real_download
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\http\client.py", line 537, in read
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\http\client.py", line 576, in readinto
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\socket.py", line 378, in readinto
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\ssl.py", line 748, in recv_into
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\ssl.py", line 620, in read
socket.timeout: The read operation timed out

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

There are numerous times in which my Internet connection drops and youtube-dl is left with a long timeout. There does seem to be a setting for --socket-timeout SECONDS which defaults to 20 seconds. However, there seems to be a (much longer) 540 second timeout that usually occurs in my case. Windows 10. I believe the issue may have to do with Python detecting the socket error and timing out ... at ... long ... length, rather than in a more timely fashion (say, 30 to 60 seconds.)

The symptoms are a locked % complete, a stuck KiB/s and ETA time for what seems to be roughly 9 minutes. I have been known to kill the task in Task Manager, but this should be done on the "Details" tab of Windows 10. Restarting the same commandline will usually pick up where the last instance of youtube-dl left off.

To reiterate... there is a long delay between the "15.6% of 118.20MiB at 54.15KiB/s ETA 31:25" and the "ERROR" appearing, with nothing to indicate activity during this time. In the interim, my Internet connection has normally been re-established and so the old (SSL?) socket will never be restored.