ULPT Request: How can I cap the internet speed on my sisters PC so she stops neglecting her kid to play COD
Posted by Alternative_War1064@reddit | UnethicalLifeProTips | View on Reddit | 80 comments
Idk if this is appropriate for this sub but I couldn’t think where else to get advice. If there is a more appropriate sub for this please lmk.
TL;DR
Advise needed on how to ‘configure’ my adult sister’s PC who has tossed responsibility of her severely autistic intellectual disabled kid to my family while she sits on her ass playing COD
Iv been researching this for the last few months & tried going through the ISP admin page to cap her internet speed however my ISP is trash & doesnt seem to have this option.
Last night I reached breaking point when her kid started smashing up the house after he smashed his iPad.
my dad & I are on the floor getting bitten & our asses kicked while my sister stood there in a shirt with no pants, gaming headset still on.
Aside from jamming in a screw driver or cutting a wire (I built her PC so I wanna keep it in tact if possible) is there a way I can sort this? She has technically allowed access as I have my own admin account set up a while back.
Please don’t suggest CPS bc they’re absolutely useless in my country (have called them multiple times on her over the years)we just need a way to put a pin in this COD addiction until a longer term solution can be figured out. Thank you in advance
No-Corner9361@reddit
Not really a ULPT from me, but some general advice which may be applicable. The problem isn’t COD, or even the internet. If somebody is behaving in this way, there is always a deeper root issue. Without knowing your sister or being a doctor myself, I cannot say what the issue might be, but yeah I’m 100% confident that it’s not COD.
Think of it like drug addiction; ain’t nobody waking up one morning and deciding “instead of going to my nice, well-paid, job, I’m going to stay home and shoot fentanyl”. People only get to the point of ruining their lives via addiction because they had an underlying (internal or external, material or psychological) issue that drove them there.
The only reason I mention this is because I think your plan is fundamentally flawed. Take away her COD without solving the real problem, and she’ll become addicted to TikTok on her phone, or going out partying, or who the heck knows what might replace it. But if she doesn’t have her problem truly resolved, she WILL find something else to distract her from whatever responsibility she is trying to avoid.
Not that that is your responsibility, though it certainly is your problem. I strongly recommend trying to get her to see a therapist. Approach gently and with compassion. Depending how long it’s been since the birth, she could be dealing with postpartum stuff, which makes people do some really weird and bad things sometimes.
shaftofbread@reddit
This is absolutely good advice. It is a mistake to try apply technical solutions to social problems. Also, piss disks.
trevorosgood@reddit
Came here to say piss disk made in a CD case and left in the CD tray on the computer.
AndreasVesalius@reddit
I mean, do that too, for good measure
OneEnvironmental9222@reddit
This. I have deep mental issues and traumas I never worked out because of how awful the therapists in my area are and essentially I ended up doing what OPs sister is doing and escape reality by gaming all day every day. I finally started snappin out of it when my situation started to get too bad.
areyouthrough@reddit
And this is just a hunch, sister might not feel equipped to raise a disabled kid.
az226@reddit
Or want to do it.
ShakeAgile@reddit
This is the way. Mother and autistic child need professional help. The mother is very possibly on some spectrum as well. COD removal will not fix the issue.
YandyTheGnome@reddit
I agree with this completely, the only thing I have to add is piss disc in the disc drive of her laptop/desktop/console.
Broadpup@reddit
This definitely seems plausible as for a second, I thought you were talking about me. I suffered from a level of depression which I cannot even hardly describe. For years video games were my temporary escape from that hell.
Quirky-Reputation-89@reddit
Yeah this is the most unethical thing I have seen posted here. His sister is dealing with some issues for sure, and instead of getting her help, he is trying to punish her and take away something that makes her happy. While the addiction is serious, it's also not the most immediately harmful compared to hard drugs or something, so there is some time to help her find help and resources before just cutting her internet like she's your child. In fact, the more I think about this, OP should not be caring for any children, particularly the sister's. What an asshole.
L8_4Work@reddit
pics of sis?
terpsarelife@reddit
you can block the ports responsible for outbound traffic on those cod servers. or you can create a guest partition network and limit its bandwidth within your router settings. try logging in and checking
192.168.1.1 usually loging is "admin / password"
Skeggy-@reddit
If it’s not 192.168.1.1 then it’s likely 192.168.0.1
Default login info is printed in the bottom of the router.
Il-2M230@reddit
Ipconfig and jump into the gateway, usually that will do if youre directly conected.
Alternative_War1064@reddit (OP)
Thank you so much
wa019@reddit
Just wanted to add that you can search your router model online for instructions on how to do this.
Greektlake@reddit
In Windows and your router you can set internet access to a metered connection which will slow or stop internet access after a certain amount data has been used.
Alternative_War1064@reddit (OP)
TY I will try this now
Evening-Cat-7546@reddit
Log on to her account when she isn’t around and start up a match. Start swearing like a sailor in live chat. AI monitors chats nowadays and will ban you just for saying fuck. You might need to say something that really pisses off another player into reporting her account. Then log out and wait until you hear your sister scream. Sleep well knowing she won’t be able to play for st least 3 days.
AbrasiveDad@reddit
F@ggot works well. Twice I've heard a buddy say it and he got a warning once and a chat ban the next time.
AssDimple@reddit
How does that work well, if all they got was a chat ban?
homelesshyundai@reddit
To speed run getting banned just yell and type racial epitaphs, dropping some hard Rs is a sure fire way to get suspended in no time.
SkinnyAssHacker@reddit
Get a mini or a raspberry pi and install pi-hole https://pi-hole.net/ on it. Block every COD domain and nothing else (though you can also block ads with it ahem...ya know...tell her that's what you're up to. When COD goes down, tell her you're working on it but can't figure it out. You can block it network wide OR add her to a group and block it only for that group. But also, enjoy living ad-free!
ckn@reddit
This is the way.
35+ years of working security and it Always is a DNS issue. Now while you're at it with the pi-hole, you could use wireguard to throttle sessions to CoD Server IP Addresses, giving her more and more lag over time.
FWIW, filtering DNS at the edge and not allowing the house out to the internet is a mini version of what the Egyptian govt did to the population during the Egyptian spring, if you remember it took a plucky group of hackers, telecomix, to 'fix' it by telling everyone to use 8.8.8.8 to circumvent that "control".
the wireguard method would require her to remove an inline pi-hole, not just point their dns config elsewhere....
SkinnyAssHacker@reddit
These are great additions, thank you!
DanCoco@reddit
When cod goes down, tell her "it can't possibly be the network. Server is probably down." (Don't let her think you're responsible for fixing it.)
SkinnyAssHacker@reddit
That's a very good point and one I hadn't thought of. I've been this person (thanks hyperfocus/hyperfixation issues from neurodivergence) though not to the point of neglecting a child. I've had to get pretty creative to find ways to pull myself out of my "addiction" before. I've luckily never been addicted to substances, but activities? Absolutely. What can help too OP is if a replacement can be found that includes the child somehow. I don't know what that is and I have no idea if your sister has similar issues to me. But there is hope. I'm always seeking dopamine and will keep doing the thing that gives it to me to the exclusion of food/sleep/bathroom at times. So I do get it. I hope you find something that works.
Cuneus-Maximus@reddit
Suggest she was shadow banned.
redthump@reddit
I love my pi-hole! bast use for a zero 2 w I've ever found.
mattvait@reddit
Qos in the router settings set hers as lowest priority
LazyAF786@reddit
Post her Gamertag here and ULPT will report the heck outta it.
UnethicalLifeProTips-ModTeam@reddit
Your comment was removed for violating rule 14: No reason to be a dick. Seriously, get therapy or fuck off.
Witty_Candle_3448@reddit
Regardless of the child's age, if you are being bitten and beaten you can call 911. You don't know what to do and don't want to hurt the child so it is appropriate to call 911 for physical protection. A police report is the first step in getting the child a medical evaluation and perhaps parenting classes for your sister. Sure your sister will be mad, who cares. Be brave and call and keep calling.
Plantarchist@reddit
Real talk, there are so many autistic kids shot and killed, or drugged and killed, or restrained and killed by police in this exact scenario every year. Please don't call the cops for small stuff with a severely autistic kid. Its going to wind up in worse tragedy. The autistic community mourns our fallen kids, and while I understand it is difficult, until cops stop murdering autistic children, its a roll of the dice on that kids life.
And I fully understand how difficult it is to handle an untreated, neglected, severely autistic child with high needs. Cops still need to be the ultimate last resort.
scissorsgrinder@reddit
They're not American. Shocking!
Jumper2002@reddit
Kick her and the kid out, she cant play cod if she's homeless, and she'll have no excuse not to take care of the kid since she has nothing else going on
trevorosgood@reddit
If you built the PC you can unbulid it. Remove the ram so it can't even boot up. Steal an essential cable. Unplug the USB ports so get devices don't work. There's all sorts of low key mischief you can do to a desktop computer.
Godlyeyes@reddit
Download cheating software for a ban
jussstin714@reddit
Does COD band software or hardware now too?
RefrigeratedTP@reddit
CARLA
Godlyeyes@reddit
Klar is the only one I’ve ever used
Good_Amphibian_1318@reddit
There we go. Some truly unethical shit. Too many light weights in here.
Sanders0492@reddit
Even better - find a way to introduce massive network latency for her computer’s connection. What’s worse than not being able to play a game? Playing it with a 300 ms ping lol
holedingaline@reddit
300ms unplayable?
Son, I grew up with dial-up. TF @300ms was a good day.
You're not sniping, but you can adjust. Now, if you can get it to vary randomly from 150ms to 500ms with plenty of dropped packets? That's unplayable.
Sanders0492@reddit
lol fair enough. Modern FPS games are so sweaty that I don’t like playing at 300ms but I suppose you’re right that it’s still playable. That variation and packet loss would be the icing on the cake though!
Traditional_Card_976@reddit
This man games
miraculum_one@reddit
best if it's intermittent
Evening-Cat-7546@reddit
Not sure if lag switching is still a thing, but might giver her an advantage.
OmegaNine@reddit
What kind of router are you using? If you have control over it, you can probably rate limit her in the web UI.
dankp3ngu1n69@reddit
172.168.1.1
Identify her laptops Mac address
See if there are ways to throttle the network and you can likely reduce her bandwidth to a point where she won't be able to game at all. But still connect.
Should be enough.
eigs2@reddit
https://jagt.github.io/clumsy/
SeanFrank@reddit
I cannot fathom what inspired someone to make this, but it looks like exactly what OP is looking for.
SlytherinSister@reddit
Alternative solution: wait until she goes in the loo and either say some horrible stuff into the headset or fill the chat with racial slurs. That should get her banned from the server/game.
GrumpyBert@reddit
I am the father and caregiver of a (very) disabled child, so I have some insight to give you here: your sister is most likely depressed, and if you take away her current outlet, she'll get another, maybe a worse one. Your sister needs help, a lot of it, not a brother scheming against her.
Nexdeus@reddit
Leave the child at a foster home, that way your sister can game, uninterrupted by some cum goblin she's decided not to raise.
Since this is ULPT, leave them with no information so they can't hold you responsible, and do it without your family knowing or his mom. She'll thank you later once she's realized what you've done for her, and she'll be able to rank up and do whatever people do on COD Battle Royale 69.
baskura@reddit
Install hacks for COD and wait for her to get banned. Sorted.
SolutionOriented33@reddit
Won’t help. Sorry.
OkSubstance8759@reddit
Does it have a CD drive?
math_rand_dude@reddit
Connect a wireless mouse or keyboard to the pc. Give a few well timed tiny wiggles from time to time while she's playing, making her mess up games.
T4Abyss@reddit
Setting the MTU on the PC to a high number will cause connection issues such as poor ping in a game - this way it will not affect other devices on the network and just this PC, done easily via PowerShell. Though this would probably just create a more hostile environment overall for everyone wouldn't you agree?
Altruistic-Key-8843@reddit
Mate you have enabled your sisters situation by making her a computer so perhaps best to yank out the motherboard and have a family intervention
yehiko@reddit
As someone with OCD, this has nothing to do with OCD. Can just be addiction. Also you don't need your ISP page, your router page is where you limit speeds per client.
douganater@reddit
Download Wall hacks & get her HWID banned.
Or just start being extremely Racist in chats to get her put into bad sport lobbies.
As an Australian I've seen cases where people were only able to play on American servers because of this.
So if you are not in America this should massively increase the Lag she gets playing with no impact to non COD related activities.
g00nster@reddit
You could slow the whole PC down..
Msconfig, boot, advanced options. Set max processor and ram to something low like 2 proc and 4gb ram
DufflesBNA@reddit
Ram timings/clock cycles
Working-on-it12@reddit
If you built the computer, is there some way you can get into the hardware and disconnect something? Replace something with something that works much slower? Remove half the RAM? Put a limiter on the wifi connection?
With admin access - parental controls.
Niniva73@reddit
Removing RAM is diabolical. I love it!
redditSucksNow2020@reddit
Taking away her video game is not going to make her pay more attention to her kids. She will just find a different distraction. likely something worse
onmy40@reddit
She's just going to start playing on her phone
godon2020@reddit
Simplest solution which somehow hasn't been mentioned, use a custom DNS.
Next DNS is free and can be very easily configured to block/blacklist COD servers.
Finally, change the DNS address either directly on the router (all routers have this), or on the target PC.
Good_Amphibian_1318@reddit
Y'all. This is UnethicalProTips.... 1. Put your computer on the same network segment as hers. 2. Target her IP with a DOS attack. 3. Fire away.
Electronic-Ad3531@reddit
Turn off UPnP
Just_Here_So_Briefly@reddit
CPS
Moistcowparts69@reddit
Did you read the last paragraph? 🙄
Skeggy-@reddit
It has taken you a few months of research and you still haven’t found out you can do this from the router?
The real solution is having your father pressure her with eviction. Him doing nothing about it is allowing it to continue.
Alternative_War1064@reddit (OP)
As I mentioned in the post I have attempted to do this through the router however there is no option to do this.
unfortunately this situation is v complicated by the fact this kid so damaged already & just trying my best not to further add anymore trauma - however in saying that, if smaller interventions like this are futile then she will be evicted. If there wasn‘t a kid in the picture she would‘ve been cut off years ago.
Skeggy-@reddit
Fair enough. Replace your isp router with your own or limit her using windows.
Threaten to evict her and not the kid or toss the pc imo.
Here is your answer though. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/essential-network-settings-and-tasks-in-windows-f21a9bbc-c582-55cd-35e0-73431160a1b9#bkmk_set_data_limit
wa019@reddit
You can look up VPNs online that allow you to monitor and cap internet speed. Or, you can use those VPNs (I recommend NextDNS which isn’t a VPN but still works) to just outright block all COD servers.
Also: Superglue the ports of all accessories, whether keyboard or headset or what. Take a screenshot of her desktop and set it as the wallpaper, then remove the icons. Set her keyboard language to something else.
CaptainLucid420@reddit
If you have a wireless router just reset or unplug it.