I'm having this problem as well. The Net7 patcher times out. This leaves me at version 1.8.1.0 and it says I need Version 1.92 to be able to play. I am running in Administrator mode. I have tried running it with the firewall turned off and have added the Net7 program to the exceptions list for my firewall when it is on. What happens when I start the 'LaunchNet7.exe' program is that it starts checking for updates to Net7, the loading bar at the bottom goes across and then I get the timeout message. I've tried running this several times in the past two days and still get the same results.