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>I added it but not sure if it changes anything. The timeout usually takes about 7 seconds. To simulate it, I entered a bad server value such as:
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>lnHandle=SQLStringConnect('Driver=SQL server;Server=BadPC; Database=Universal Thread; '+;
> 'Network=DBMSSOCN;')
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>So, this server doesn't exist. Maybe when the server doesn't exist, it checks for additional things before the timeout get effective. That would mean, it takes about 5 additional seconds at first to check for something else and then the 2 seconds will apply.

It takes 2.3 sec to timeout on my PC with ConnectTimeOut set to 1 sec and none-existing server in the connection string. Mabe it's your's DNS lookup gives such delay?