This simplifies the process of sending and receiving data,
and makes use of Python's socket.settimeout instead a hand-crafted
version with a sort-of arbitrary self.delay = 0.1 (seconds), which
should improve the speed of the method
Since they were shared between write and read, and now the read
is done constantly on a separate thread, the read lock would
cause the write method to be locked and not functional at all
