Can I shorten the time before Safari times out when it can't find a page?

My problem is due to dismal service from Comcast. In spite of numerous help calls and replacements of wires, modems, router, etc, I continue to have a problem where requests for web pages come to a dead end. It happens because a URL I request isn't resolved into an IP, so I get "web page not found". I eventually do get the page, but only after the browser completely times-out and I try again. This happens on all the digital devices in my house. If I try the page again before the browser kicks out an error message, the second try doesn't work. This is a Comcast problem, not a Mac problem, however, I do notice than on the several PCs in the house, the browser times-out much more quickly than Safari on my Mac. Is there a setting on the Mac or on Safari that will tell it to "give up" more quickly? All the browsers on my PC quit after about 30 seconds but on the Mac it takes a couple minutes. Is this something I can set?

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