Windows 7 and high ping

alrighty. time for part one of kinta's hot fix. (which means if this doesn't work, please just reply here saying it didn't. or, if it did work, awesome, say so though so I'm not constantly checking here xD). Before you may waste your time reading this, I'm making the assumption that your network driver isn't up to date. This is possible even if you just bought your computer. "How?", you may ask. Well, believe it or not, some companies that make computers actually don't include every up-to-date driver for that computer. ex: Dell does this sometimes. They basically say, "here's what i want, now, who selling it the cheapest?" This cheap version of windows that comes with your computer may be lacking some updated software and whatnot. My laptop that came w/ vista on it had a network driver for XP and 2000 versions of windows...yeah, i had some pretty bad lag issues when I got win7.

step 1: copy paste this, devmgmt.msc, into the start menu search. it should give you the option to click on the device manager which is probably named devmgmt on the seach results

step 2: branch out on the network adapters section after opening the device manager

step 3: right-click on whatever things you have in there and click update driver software. it should search for the latest updated driver. if whatever you tried to update is the latest, make sure there isn't anything else under network adapters to try and update.

Hope this helped. If not, please reply saying it didn't. I'll be keeping tabs on this one. I really hope it does help cause if not, i'm gonna have to go into a lot more personal help with who it doesn't help. xD but, to make that possible future personal help available to everyone, i'll try and keep it here on the forums.