[Merge] Slow socket

[Aaron Bentley]

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Robert Collins wrote:
> I'm against using simulated time at the moment, because nothing else is
> geared to it - and because doing it requires poking at private
> variables. (naughty!) If we introduce the concept, we should do it
> methodically across the timing apparatus.

On that note,

One nifty thing about simulated time is that you can simulate multiple
network connections at the same time-- that is, a single run can tell
you how it would perform on a network with low latency and high
throughput, vs a network with high latency and low throughput.

Aaron
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