There's a new network card on the market that claims to lower latency for online gaming: http://www.killernic.com/KillerNic/

Good idea in theory it seems. Reviewers have had mixed results. Most of the reviews center around FPS games.

I'm thinking that if the concept works, multiplayer online racing would benefit greatly from this technology. So, my question is, who has 250USD burning a hole in thier pocket and wants to get one of these to test with LFS?

It will make Ping times SLIGHTLY better. Why? Because more resources are used, and thus the latency of waiting for the network cards (seeing as more NIC's are on Mobo's these days) CPU to do the work is made smaller, but it only make a VERY small difference.

Proper solution? Get a better ISP!

It's certainly interesting, I agree with the review I read that having a Linux box on-chip inside your windows box is certainly a geeky concept. I'd get one for that. Bit pricey though.