$url	= 'http://rusbible.ru/files/onefile/Bible.txt';	// около 4Мб
$host	= parse_url($url, PHP_URL_HOST);

if ($fp = fsockopen($host, 80, $errno, $errstr, 5))
{
	$query  = 'GET ' . $url . ' HTTP/1.1'."\r\n";
	$query .= 'Host: ' . $host . "\r\n";
	$query .= 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009033100 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.8'."\r\n";
	$query .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";

	fputs($fp, $query);

	stream_set_timeout($fp, 0, 100);

	$start = microtime(true);

	while(!feof($fp))
	{
		$html.= fgets($fp, 512);
	}

	$downTime = sprintf('%.0f', (microtime(true) - $start) * 1000);

	$info = stream_get_meta_data($fp);

	fclose($fp);

	echo "TIME - $downTime msec";
	print_r($info);

	die($html);
}

TIME - 2481 msec

Array
(
    [stream_type] => tcp_socket/ssl
    [mode] => r+
    [unread_bytes] => 0
    [seekable] => 
    [timed_out] => 
    [blocked] => 1
    [eof] => 1
)