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    Sleep-deprived sibling repeatedly sabotage's the family WiFi to curb his younger brother's late-night gaming rampages: 'If he got too loud then I could just boot him off the game and it would look like an outage'

    A sleep-deprived sibling secretly manipulated the household WiFi in order to stop his brother from having late-night Call of Duty rampages. 

    I love gaming. Have my entire life. But, after suffering this from many roommates over the years, I think it's time we address an important subject: Yelling at games, especially in the middle of the night when others are trying to sleep, and there is nothing but the quiet of the peaceful resting world for your frustrated, exasperated cries to echo out into like a great void.

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    • A gamer reacts with a loud shout as his connection drops, unaware his sibling has manipulated the home WiFi to end his session.
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      This visual captures the peak of a gaming rampage, showing the loud behavior that led a sibling to secretly disable the household WiFi.

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    • And those noise-cancelling headphones you're wearing don't make your voice any quieter, even though it might seem that way to you. There are few forces more unstoppable than a roommate with a noise-cancelling headset who happens to be losing a game of a MOBA or who has experienced a close loss in a battle-royale style looter-shooter. It's always the same, too, earnest promises not to do it again and to keep it down in the future, which are then conveniently forgotten the following night. 

      And what is there really to be yelling at anyway? While it's fun to get immersed in and emotionally invested in what you're doing, at the end of the day, when all of that adrenaline-pumping energy is spilling over into shared living spaces with full volume, it starts being a personal and public disturbance. 

      Plus, as your neighbors and roommates grow more agitated, their patience dulled by sleep deprivation and their resentment equally sharpened, they might just consider meeting your deranged behavior with some of their own. 

      That's how it was between these two siblings when a fed-up older brother decided to take matters into his own hands, utilizing a high-tech method to get even with his younger brother. After other requests to “keep it down” failed and the behavior continued, he decided to take a more clandestine approach, disconnecting his brother's PlayStation temporarily from the WiFi before reconnecting it, making it appear as if it were a severe issue. Repeating this enough times, he was able to make his brother give up and go to bed in frustration, which meant that he slept soundly for the rest of the night.

    • Many moons ago, when I lived at my family home, my younger brother was addicted to playing Call of Duty and was one of those teenagers that would take it way too seriously.
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    • My bedroom was downstairs and his above mine and when he'd lose or get k led in a way he decided was unfair, he'd shout. down his headset and slam his feet onto the ground, which shook my whole bedroom.
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    • This would go on until the early hours of the morning, despite me asking him time and time again to please keep it down.
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    • It got to the point where I was exhausted all the time after being constantly woken up; I even recall this happening until 3am the morning of a job interview, which I subsequently failed as I couldn't even think straight.
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    • He was a bit of a psycho in those days and so he wouldn't care he was keeping me up.
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    • If I did anything by force like switch his Playstation off or whatever then he'd likely retaliate far more severely, so I needed to find a way to make it seem like it wasn't me.
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    • It would be too obvious if I'd turned the entire router off and on as it takes time to re-establish itself.
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    • I opted to log into our router's settings via my phone and would change the password to something else, then change it back again.
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    • This would automatically boot off everything on the network for just a moment and then reconnect.
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    • It was perfect, if he got too loud then I could just boot him off the game and it would look like an outage or a server issue in-game.
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    • Then I'd let him start another game and would repeat the process until he eventually got fed up of it and turned it off.
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    • I think it also created a 'Pavlov's dog' response in him not to get so angry at it or it would mysteriously disconnect.
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    • He never caught on to it being me, though he did comment on how much better the WiFi had been after I moved out.
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    • "Guess it must be because it's using less bandwidth," I lied. TLDR: I'd change the WiFi password to boot his Playstation off the network before putting it back because he's shouting as his game until early hours of the morning.
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    • A young man gaming late at night with a headset and controller in a purple-lit room.
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      A young man sits in a dimly lit room, glowing with purple and pink neon lights. He wears a professional gaming headset and grips a controller, his eyes fixed on the screen during a late-night gaming marathon.

      The image is representative only and does not depict the actual subjects of the story.

    • Maiden_Far I'd still do it occasionally after you moved, just to keep him humble
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    • Premium Oxygen Original Poster's Reply Unfortunately, that'd involve going to his place to connect and I CBA.
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    • Brilliant-Orange9117 Setup a VPN on the router for remote access?
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    • PremiumOxygen Original Poster's Reply I don't live anywhere near him anymore, plus I don't really have any reason to; it'd just waste my time aha.
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    • MrDrProfesorPatrick So your parents were completely fine with someone in the house screaming and stomping all night?
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    • Premium Oxygen Original Poster's Reply My dad worked nights and my mum couldn't hear him from her room. Though tbf, he wouldn't have listened to her either way, he was a bit of a psycho.
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    • agmccall Did you ever tell him
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    • PremiumOxygen Original Poster's Reply Nah and I never will. He mellowed out a bit since then, but I still don't need the agro.
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    • Havin-A-Roni Dude, you didn't fail that interview for any reason other than your own fault. And trying to use it to get sympathy points from internet strangers is pathetic. Your story would have been absolutely fine without that banal bulls.
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    • Premium Oxygen Original Poster's Reply I mean, it was clearly to make a point that he didn't care even knowing I had to be up for something important, but ok. Funnily enough, getting about three hours total sleep didn't help my cognitive ability.
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    • FlirtyBisc u were the final boss and he didnt even know it
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    • DarthJarJar242 In college I lived in student housing that had internet supplied as part of our rent. Basically they had a bunch of routers installed in a closet next to the water and electric meters. One for each apartment. We had a roommate that was terrible about torrenting and eating up all the bandwidth. He had a media server he ran and wanted to have basically every movie/TV show/etc available. I didn't care if he was doing it during the day when we all had work or class but at night when w
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    • sysadminbj I set QoS rules to throttle the sh.. out of online gaming from like 12:00 to 5:00. My kids were always super annoyed that lag got so bad during those times. I told them that it must be a ton of people using the same services during those times and to just get some sleep. I'll tell them what I did someday. Maybe.
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    • Will2LiveFading I do the same thing when the kids won't do what they're supposed to. I just add their devices mac address to the blacklist and when they aren't doing what they're supposed to I activate the blacklist. Usually they will get their sh done after that. They can use mobile data still but where I live the signal is weak so they won't be doing anything besides checking email. It's the most effective form of motivation I've found in my household.
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    • Azure_Wolf Used to do something similar to my brother, but he was aware I was doing it. I would only block his device and when he tried to tell my parents, they didn't understand and just kept saying must be your device, wifi is working for me. They didn't seem to understand I was only blocking him, and thought he was making it up I was blocking only his device as they didn't think that was possible. They weren't the best with technology.
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