I need to retrieve my customer profile id's from my account.  I created a php script that works fine on my sandbox account which only has a couple of customers.  Although when I point the script to my production account which has several hundred customers loaded, the script times out after 30 seconds or so.

How can I avoid this problem?

After 30 seconds or so, the error message is as follows:

unable to connect to ssl://api.authorize.net:443 (Connection timed out)