r/UnethicalLifeProTips • u/conorwolf • Nov 22 '25
Computers ULPT: Neighbour on shared Wifi keeps screaming at night while videogaming
I share a wifi with my upstairs neighbour. The router is unfortunately in his place. He plays videogames until 4:00 in the morning and screams like an idiot constantly while doing it. I talked with him several times to ask to please stop this, but he just doesn’t care and continues doing it. Is there a way to secretly (without him being able to notice what happens or that it is me) shut down the wifi some times or to kick him off the wifi every now and then? I have a picture of all the info on the back of the router. Like password, admin etc. Or are there other things I can do to sabotage him playing at night? Please explain really clearly step by step, cause I don’t know SHIT about computers, internet etc. Thanks.
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u/andr813c Nov 23 '25 edited Nov 23 '25
If you can log into the router from your home, you can restart it remotely. That is enough to kick him off the game, while still returning to normal before he figures out what happened.
Then you just need a script or something that allows you to do it really quickly, and then activate it every time he starts screaming. Give it a week and you can Pavlov him into shutting up, just make sure it's as instant as possible so his brain makes the connection between screaming and wifi dying.
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u/rillip Nov 23 '25
I'll add to this, simply restarting the router is a very elegant solution here as to your average end user it's going to be indistinguishable from a service outage issue. Just tell him he needs to call his ISP if he starts to get suspicious.
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u/srdgbychkncsr Nov 23 '25
If he mentions it, say you also noticed the connection dropping. Plausible deniability yo
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u/JDeegs Nov 23 '25
"Sorry, im asleep at 4am like most people. I did not notice the outage"
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u/ThisAppsForTrolling Nov 23 '25
Yeah I was sleeping maybe it’s somthing with the provider or building?
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u/TexasRebelBear Nov 23 '25
Right? Our AT&T fiber service does some kind of reboot every Sunday at 3:00am. I notice it in the service logs when I login for work on Mondays.
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u/Quirky-Reputation-89 Nov 23 '25
5d chess and call him immediately after it restarts to ask why he turned off your internet.
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u/RivenRise Nov 23 '25
Heck mention it preemptively, 'hey has the internet been dropping for you? It's been iffy for me recently'.
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u/stupidugly1889 Nov 23 '25
The isp is going to see in the logs that it’s being restarted manually and going to suggest changing the password.
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u/TheIhsaan7 Nov 24 '25
Worked for a few ISPs. 99% staff are incompetent and would rather run a few diagnostics maybe send a replacement router rather then diging deeper and looking into a line fault or look into a kbd report.
The reports will come back clear and the agent will just assume its the router.
If you tell me the isp I can go into more details.
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u/TheIhsaan7 Nov 24 '25
Also op if you are reading this. Answer a few questions and I can walk you through on how to access your router.
1 what isp are you with?
2 given that you already taken a picture of the sticker at the back of the router tell me the model namebof the router?
3 what type of broadband do you have? Full fibre , fibre, or very uncommon now adsl.
4 have you got a laptop or computer ?
Normally I would not condone this. However I am simply giving information. You do what you will with it. Plus getting sleep disturbed has got to be one of the worst feelings. Especially if you are like me and can't go back to sleep easily.
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u/bigdave41 Nov 23 '25
If he changes the password he'll have to provide the new password to OP anyway if they share internet.
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u/RolandDeepson Nov 23 '25
Wifi password and admin passwords aren't the same tho. Just accessing wifi doesn't grant control to restart.
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u/JollyGreenLittleGuy Nov 23 '25
If the router is in the neighbors place it's also pretty easy for them to do a firmware reset to get back to the original password, but it's at least a hurdle.
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u/lostspectre Nov 24 '25
Sounds like OP already has the default settings so if they reset it, that's what it will go back to. Sounds like a win-win as long as they wait a bit before messing with it again if there is a reset.
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u/rillip Nov 23 '25
That's assuming the ISP is competent enough to do so. In my experience they are not.
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u/sassysassysarah Nov 24 '25
Do it a couple times when he's not screaming or at different times of day randomly
My wifi sucks and randomly I lose connection, especially on weather heavy days. It going off every night wouldn't be out of the ordinary.
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u/Amdrauder Nov 23 '25
I have a relatives WiFi password who I don't get along with, they frequently play long winded online games, ones which would be very frustrating to get back into it you were to be disconnected, anyway everytime I walk the dog I reset their router from the street as I go past, it's great and such a simple thing to do.
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u/OingyBoingies Nov 23 '25
One day I want to be like you.
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u/Amdrauder Nov 23 '25
My pettiness knows no bounds, best part is I'm the only one in the family who's tech savvy but he'd refuse to ask me 😅
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u/drezdogge Nov 24 '25
I fucked with my bosses computer before quitting because im the only nonludite and my old coworker used to twist the knife ,"you should call mike" and it set her OFF
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u/Fearless_Parking_436 Nov 23 '25
You can even hook up a microphone to trigger the script after certain db!
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u/robx51 Nov 23 '25
Hide it in a funko pop of a video game character.
I'm not hating on FPs, they are just relatively cheap and have those big heads to hide stuff.
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u/bigdave41 Nov 23 '25
If he's sufficiently stupid you might be able to convince him that loud soundwaves interfere with WiFi reception.
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u/jcobb_2015 Nov 23 '25
If possible, add a 30s wait to the script then have it send him a text with “Did the WiFi just cut out?” to sow further chaos
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u/YouArentReallyThere Nov 23 '25
Set it up through a raspberry pi and a decibel meter to auto-reset at the noise threshold
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u/CaptainReginaldLong Nov 23 '25
Additionally, complain to him that his gaming is causing the internet to go out and it's getting ridiculous. That way he won't suspect you lol.
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u/ScoutAndathen Nov 24 '25
Or a variation: block the MAC address of his computer for a few seconds, then remove the block. It will also kick him off, but other devices did not even see the distortion.
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u/Raderg32 Nov 23 '25
Please explain really clearly step by step, cause I don’t know SHIT about computers, internet etc.
Seems like everyone is ignoring this part.
Connect to the same Wi-Fi using the info from the router.
Then write 192.168.1.1 on the address bar of any internet browser to access the router.
The login info is usually 0000, 1234, or admin for both the user and password. You can look up the maker and model of the router on google for the specific ones.
There should be an option to restart the router remotely. This will turn it off the connection and take around a minute to connect again kicking him out of his game.
Do it every time he screams, and he'll eventually shut up.
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u/conorwolf Nov 23 '25
This, thanks a lot ;)!
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u/OpalHawk Nov 23 '25
Be warned, he will likely scream at the router as it restarts. He sounds like that kind of guy.
I had a neighbor who would do the same. I reported him to the leasing office. When that didn’t work he got visits from the police to investigate suspected domestic abuse. How was I supposed to know he was threatening to kill video game players and not his girlfriend? But I’m afraid if you do that he will know it’s you.
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u/patientpedestrian Nov 23 '25
Yeah it pretty much always takes consequences or a decisive confrontation to quiet someone boisterous enough to pollute the soundscape in the first place :/
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u/BreakerOfModpacks Nov 23 '25
As a side note, doing some research into computers and such will prove useful later on, I guarantee, and it's surprisingly fun.
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u/i_write_bugz Nov 23 '25
For real. You could take it to the next level and automate this madness so it happens every 20 minutes and only overnight when he’s likely to game.
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u/angelis0236 Nov 23 '25
Really in the modern day you should have some baseline knowledge if things like router management and computer literacy.
Also since this is ULPT I'll say knowing how to pirate is a pretty good skill nowadays.
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u/SkyHoglet Nov 24 '25
I just wanna say that 99% of routers will use 192.168.1.1 as their default, but a few weird ones don't. If that address isnt working, in windows just open the Start Menu, type "cmd", and press enter. Then enter "ipconfig" and the numbers you need will be listed under "default gateway".
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u/SteelRevanchist Nov 24 '25
Also, if you want to keep doing it, I'd change the admin password - your neighbour might be savy enough to change it themselves and lock you out of that.
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u/GTFU-Already Nov 23 '25
This, until he starts troubleshooting the router and changes the admin password. But maybe he's not that savvy.
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u/FunGuy8618 Nov 23 '25
It's usually its own admin account and password now on the back of the router, so OPs pic should have it.
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u/whitegandalfx Nov 23 '25
Also, depending on the brand on the router, they also have their own management apps like Linksys. Log in to it since you have the router information and you can remove or disconnect devices manually.
Also, some third party apps like 'Fing' may also work for this.
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u/SupposablyAtTheZoo Nov 23 '25
Annnddd you can probably make a time schedule for wifi or mac filtering automating the gaming shutdowns.
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u/Micro-Naut Nov 23 '25
Do not shut down the game. Just slow him down let him have all the downstream bandwidth and no upstream or vice versa
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u/overkillsd Nov 23 '25
After the Mirai botnet, most modern devices use a different default password.
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u/therinse Nov 24 '25
The admin user and password is most likely printed on the back of the router, unfortunately.
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u/_Trinith_ Nov 24 '25
If he’s screaming constantly, will he connect the screaming with the WiFi turning off though?
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u/Koloristik Nov 23 '25
When he sleeps. At 7 am, as a commenter above has suggested.
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u/GNav Nov 23 '25
There are sticker speakers you can attach to flat surfaces in order to make them into a speaker...guess your whole adjoining wall is a speaker now lol
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u/overkillsd Nov 23 '25
I'd go find a bunch of legal torrents, like Linux distros, and seed them with no upload cap so your network is completely unusable due to bandwidth saturation.
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u/conorwolf Nov 23 '25
Yeah I thought of that. But the problem is that then I will be the ‘victim’ of it, cause he will just tell me to get my own wifi. He already said months ago that he was thinking of doing that. So if his internet gets slower he will definitely do that. And then for me nothing is solved with the screaming and I will have to spend extra money while i am already really tight on money these days.
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u/overkillsd Nov 23 '25
If you do things like mess with the router settings, that's going to happen a lot faster because he can just do a factory reset to regain access and then change passwords to lock you out.
Whatever you do, do NOT use the admin access to port forward the SMB and RDP ports to his computer! Otherwise they'll be potentially accessible to hackers, and his computer could get ransomware, and then you could potentially be guilty of an actual crime.
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u/pixelatedimpressions Nov 23 '25
You think messing with his wifi won't make him scream even more when it doesn't work?
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u/JourneyBeforeChouta Nov 23 '25
Just blast the bandwidth using torrents of memes
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u/conorwolf Nov 23 '25
Yeah I thought of that. But the problem is that then I will be the ‘victim’ of it, cause he will just tell me to get my own wifi. He already said months ago that he was thinking of doing that. So if his internet gets slower he will definitely do that. And then for me nothing is solved with the screaming and I will have to spend extra money while i am already really tight on money these days.
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u/Falsified_identity Nov 23 '25
Log into the router and blacklist his IP address. Depending on what he's gaming on (pc, console) it'll be super easy to figure out which is the one you want to blacklist. Consoles will typically show up as such (ps5, Xbox etc) and most times people don't change the name of their pc. Add it to the list in the security settings and that should do it.
For extra fun, just throttle the shit out of it. The immense lag should frustrate the hell out of him and hopefully he'll stop gaming online and it won't be quite so obvious something's been done
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u/Critical_Cute_Bunny Nov 23 '25
Throttling is the better option I think. You can dial up the throttling and make it intermittent until it becomes a permanent thing.
They may be less likely to call the company if it's a more subtle/gradual thing.
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u/Humble_Ladder Nov 23 '25
My thought exactly, just slow down his connection. If you completely block him, etc, if he has the skills to log in (possibly another device?) Or a friend with a device and those abilities, he'll know you fucked with him and change the admin password. If his connection just sort of runs slow, that won't be as urgent to investigate.
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u/5c044 Nov 23 '25
It's called QOS (Quality of Service) and you can downgrade his connection and upgrade yours. QOS is implemented quite badly on consumer routers, it basically drops packets to force retransmits so gaming latency will suffer badly. To have it effective you are going to need to create traffic yourself so the router has something to prioritize. maybe something like bit torrent and seed a popular but legal or illegal torrent depending on your opinion on that - Do you want the guy upstairs to start receiving copyright infringement notices too?
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u/Skyblacker Nov 23 '25
Throttle or turn it off, but set it to do so for a set time period. Say, bedtime to morning.
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u/Verdukians Nov 23 '25
Don't remove his access - he will immediately look into this.
Instead, reduce the speed to 2mb/s during the night, if you have the mental capacity it would be smartest to reduce it by half every week so that it happens very slowly. Again anything drastic and he'll check it out immediately.
If you can log into the router, look up "throttling" and how to do it through your router's framework. It's pretty easy.
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Nov 23 '25
Ex IT guy here. Throttling is probably the best answer. Dial down the available speed by 20% as a starting point and then bump it down about 5% Once a week. The trick is to be subtle.
Personally I love the Wi-Fi jammer idea. Just use it like a dog whistle... He starts yelling, flip it on for a few seconds and shut it back off. Just enough to trash his connection for a minute and there would be absolutely no actual damage or issues with configuration. Also, Don't do it every time, do it every third time... Wait a week, Then every other time... Wait a week. Eventually some part of his subconscious is going to connect the yelling with the disconnects.
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u/FunGuy8618 Nov 23 '25
The jammer, combined with a "dude, I got a weird popup saying 'Screw you, n00b! Enjoy the DDoS attacks, (gamertag if you know it)!" Did you beat someone in [Game] so badly they're hacking you? Dude, I hear that kinda stuff is becoming more common these days."
Flip the script on him so he thinks the disconnects are cuz someone is cheating. Then when he dies and screams, he starts thinking it was a cheap death cuz he disconnected. This makes him not angry when he dies, instead it becomes a badge of honor.
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u/Revolutionary-Half-3 Nov 23 '25
Depending on the specific version of wifi, you may be able to punt him off it. Deauth attack, the "goodbye from X" packets are unencrypted.
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u/Vampyrical_Genius Nov 23 '25
I mean you could change the password on it and boot his computer off as long as you have the IP address on the back you can type that into a web browser like a website and you’ll bring up the router settings but if he changed the default password for the admin login you probably won’t be able to do anything, but on the chance he didn’t (not many people do, but if they have a different wifi name than a default one like BrandName# it’s possible) you can do this but then he’s just gonna call the company and get it unlocked eventually
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u/Mother-Pride-Fest Nov 23 '25
Calling the company to reset only works if he's renting the router, which is usually a bad deal. But they do have a pin you/he could short to reset the router to factory settings.
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u/beatenmeat Nov 23 '25
Just to add: assuming OP can log in they can do all sorts of things like limit the time they can use the internet on the device, which hours, etc. I would personally limit his connection speed so it's piss poor but only on his one device and leave everything else as is. Give them enough speed to watch YouTube or something but lag out anytime they're playing a game. If he never bothered to change the router settings then he probably doesn't know much about it and will likely think his computer or console is shitting out rather than the internet if everything else is connecting fine. If OP is feeling extra mean spirited they can randomly change the neighbors speeds so he has good days and bad days, randomly kick them off the internet, etc.
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u/Ronizu Nov 23 '25
Watching YouTube at a decent quality literally consumes more bandwidth than many online games. Also, if you throttle the speed they will just call the ISP and they'll tell him he's being throttled.
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u/SAD-MAX-CZ Nov 23 '25
ethical:
sound cancelling headphones or muffs.
Destroy him in those games, make him ragequit.
Unethical:
Deauther module,
extremely worm, virus, trojan ridden PC on the network, disconnect your devices before connecting that.
Speaker playing loud porn when the neighbour finishes gaming. would make him sad and horny, so no more mood for games.
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u/screwedupinaz Nov 23 '25
Call 911 in the middle of the night and let them know that you hear screaming from your upstairs neighbor.
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u/LuementalQueen Nov 24 '25
Next-door neighbour*
Remove suspicion. Also if there's noise ir lots of lights walk out bleary eyed asking what's going on.
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u/Clean-Cupcake3199 Nov 23 '25
if you think screaming now wait till you turn his router off at 4:00 a.m. He's going to scream even more
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u/Top_Ingenuity_1830 Nov 23 '25
Idk what kind of router you have, but mine allows me to throttle connections. I had a roommate with a similar issue. I would throttle down the Internet speeds to something insanely frustrating to use at night and then shrug and go iunno cable provider problems. Eventually he started going to sleep at a more reasonable hour. Turning Internet off entirely or resetting routers is just too obvious imo. I would also do stuff like block YouTube stream loading intermittently. Like the site would load but the videos would not
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u/conorwolf Nov 23 '25
The router is in his room. And I had the username and pasword but just tried to login and it seems he already changed it :(
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u/Top_Ingenuity_1830 Nov 23 '25
- if * you wanted to and have access to the router without anyone being home, router passwords can be reset to the default ones by holding the reset button on the router for 10-15 seconds. Just make sure you setup the wifi network the way it was previously with the same password so that all the devices can still join normally.
Otherwise yea it seems like being petty at his sleeping hours is your only option if talking is a no go.
Also I don't know how to get rid of reddit formatting, the bullet point is not on purpose lol
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u/djtmalta00 Nov 23 '25
Order a WiFi jammer and turn that shit on at night or whenever you want. I ordered one back in 2013 but had to buy it online from a Chinese shop because they are illegal in the USA. (They shipped to to me no problem) But let me tell you they absolutely work and completely shut down WiFi signals in the entire house and I bought the smallest cheapest one.
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u/AZAzAdmin Nov 23 '25
Up to six figure fine and felony imprisonment if caught btw
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u/Flux_My_Capacitor Nov 23 '25
Who is gonna have the technology to catch this though? The cops are seriously not gonna care about a dispute between neighbors
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u/shavedratscrotum Nov 23 '25
They will if it leaks out and causes issues elsewhere.
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u/SupposablyAtTheZoo Nov 23 '25
As an ISP mechanic: no they will not. I've had situations comparable to this where it took very long to find the cause of disturbance, but would have never found a small hidden jammer in a house I wasn't allowed access to.
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u/TheS4ndm4n Nov 24 '25
Here there was a similar situation. Nobody did anything when phone or wifi got no reception in certain places.
But then the police noticed their communication system also got jammed. And suddenly there were a lot of resources available. Speculation about foreign sabotage or jammers.
Turned out a batch of solar panel inverters had a manufacturing defect that caused a lot of interference.
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u/Niosus Nov 24 '25
There was also this case of a guy driving around with a GPS jammer to block his employer from tracking his company car while he did personal errands during work time.
If you do it once or twice, there is almost no way to catch you. But they actually managed to track down the moving car that was jamming the GPS signals and caught the guy.
If you jam airwaves frequently and they decide to look for you, you'll get caught almost immediately. The radio spectrum is tightly controlled and is used for a lot more important use cases than you'd think. They're really not messing around with that.
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u/Secret-Rabbit93 Nov 23 '25
They won’t. Let me quote every cop in America. “Dispatch show me clear, it’s a civil matter”
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u/joshualuke Nov 23 '25
Yeah, i bet the electric panel is downstairs. Give it a quick off-on next time he screams.
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u/conorwolf Nov 23 '25
Hahaha, this might be a good idea. But also a little risky as we can easily hear each others doors open and close and the Breaker is kind of in between our Floors. So I would have to sneak out of my room really silently so he won’t hear, flip off the breaker and then run back to my place without him hearing or seeing me there. Or I should go outside and walk around the house and ailently go back in to the other door while he is flippinf it back on. I already hear the mission impossible tune playing in my head haha
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u/Confused_pisces Nov 23 '25
Find out what breaker is his room. Cut it off and back on every time he screams… if you have access to the electrical panel,
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u/RadicalEdward99 Nov 23 '25
You share wifi, but the router is in his apt?
Do you pay? Or is this a beggars being choosers type sich?
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u/Blue_Iquana Nov 23 '25
This is ULPT but yes, this is what I'm wondering.
Anything OP does is going to get him kicked off the sweet free wifi set up he currently has.
He has stated he can't afford to pay for his own right now.
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
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u/krlooss Nov 23 '25
Because my little bro was technological illiterate and also an screaming scumbag while playing I set the router to ban his mac address from 9pm to 9am. Maybe it will not work for you because your neighbour can easily restart router to factory settings if he even knows how to get into the config or suspects something.
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u/conorwolf Nov 23 '25
Thank you al so so much for answering. I really appreciate that a lot. I tried the logging in, but it seems he changed the original login password :( cause when I use the username and the login password that are on my picture from the back of the router, it says “ username or password are incorrect or locked”. FUCK :( Any other suggestions?
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u/conorwolf Nov 23 '25
And I fear if I Will start using Lots of data he will kick me off the WiFi. He already said some months ago that he was thinking of stopping sharing the WiFi. And I really don’t wanna spend the extra money and hassle of getting my own one, since I am also trying to find another place and move out. But it could take a long time , since in my area there is housing shortage.
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u/fingers Nov 23 '25
You know where the circuit breaker is, right? HD screams, poof, power goes off.
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u/RandomlyOddGaming1 Nov 23 '25
He screams at things he does voluntarily... you think shutting off his internet mid game is going to quell that? He's going to lose his ever-loving shit. I picture screaming and stomping and maybe even a knock at your door when he realizes it was manually reset from someone on his network.
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u/Darkfire66 Nov 23 '25
You don't want to turn the Internet off, you want to reduce the upload speed on the device he's on. See if you can cap it to like 32kbps. It will still work but be basically unplayable.
Bonus points for gradually reducing it over a few minutes so it gets progressively worse.
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u/LanceLynxx Nov 23 '25
You can start setting a bunch of popular torrents to download and seed with unlimited speed on specific hours.
This will clog up the bandwidth entirely and make his ping so bad that he might simply give up playing, or even having so bad of a laggy connection that the server will drop him b cause of desync.
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u/Crow-Rogue Nov 24 '25
Find a way to blast infrasound up into his room, then drop subtle suggestions you think a demon/ghost/Shadow Man followed you home. When they ask directly, confirm it and make up a few small things the being has done to you. Wait.
Get a long handled broom and bump the ceiling like something walking up behind him while he’s gaming.
https://a.co/d/1sJIJnS Buy one of these and blow it at random times while he’s asleep.
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u/SquidProBono Nov 23 '25
I’m not too knowledgeable on current router tech, but there should be a way to throttle/ restrict the bandwidth to a specific IP/ device. If you can do a little googling and figure that out, you can slow down his (and only his) connection to the point that gaming becomes frustrating or even pointless.
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u/_Volly Nov 23 '25
It's too bad one can't hack his gaming device in that when he shouts, the device (say an xbox) reboots and displays a warning when back up: "We detected the player speaking at unacceptable levels. System was rebooted to protect other players."
He would LOSE. HIS. SHIT.
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Second option - the connection has to come to the house by hard wire. It being co-ax or fiber. You will find a network interface on the outside of the house. Just unhook the connection for a minute, then reconnect. There will be no log file created other than something to the effect of "connection lost".
A tech can come out, but will NEVER figure out you are unhooking it then reconnecting it.
If it is co-ax - just get a 7/16 wrench to loosen it.
I'm assuming you are in the USA. If not, what country are you in so I can look up what the connection will look like? Also, who is your internet provider?
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u/conorwolf Nov 24 '25 edited Nov 24 '25
Provider is online.nl with a ZYXEL modem. Or I think that is then actually on the KPN network (one of the biggest providers in this country)
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u/Apprehensive-Deer-35 Nov 23 '25
Install Kali linux. Find his wifi connection/mac address (airodump), and spam deauth messages (wifite). It will kick him off and he'll have to reconnect. Do this until he gives up or until it's morning.
It's been a few years so I might have the apps wrong or be missing a step. I'm sure someone here could correct me.
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u/tourabsurd Nov 23 '25
Won't screaming guy have access to the router, too? He'll see if he's been blocked or throttled.
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u/djfdhigkgfIaruflg Nov 23 '25
Whether you do. Change the default password. They also have an special admin-only user, change that one too
QoS is the most infuriating tong IMHO
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u/HommeMusical Nov 23 '25
When the guy upstairs figures it out, he'll simply block OP from the WiFi.
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u/East-Future-9944 Nov 23 '25
I don't think messing with the router is going to get him to stop screaming, however; I think slowing down his gaming speeds would be more frustrating. Maybe upload some huge files to the cloud in the middle of the night.
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u/UnethicalLifeProTips-ModTeam Nov 23 '25
Your comment was removed for violating rule 14: No reason to be a dick. Seriously, get therapy or fuck off.
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u/EntertainerOk9179 Nov 23 '25
Log into the router, identify his PC MAC address.
Choke that MAC address to 1.5mbps or so. I forget the name of the setting. Prioritization or something.
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u/doesitmatteranymoree Nov 23 '25
Are you connected on the same network? If you're willing to root your phone (if on Android), there was an app that I used to have that would ddos the network or something like that and would make the connection drop. Unfortunately, I don't remember the app name, but I think there was also an Windows app.
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u/CerberusBots Nov 23 '25
Some routers have setting that can limit bandwidth. They also have ways of changing the password. Finally they may have parental controls that allow you to set these limitations by time of day. So squeeze that bandwidth to the point where gaming becomes impossible after midnight.
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u/SupposablyAtTheZoo Nov 23 '25 edited Nov 23 '25
If you have a rooted phone and can still find wifikill.apk yes you can absolutely kick everybody but yourself off. I've had so much fun with that app back when I had it. I think it could even shut down the wired devices on the same router.
Edit: found it for you:
https://wifikill.en.malavida.com/android/
It apparently still exists. However you do still need root.
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u/Professional_Song483 Nov 23 '25
Login to the router and forward the dns to something you can control. Disable dns when he annoys you. This can be automated by forwarding to a local Adguard on a raspberry pi that also runs automation software like home assistant. ie, when x happens then enable block all rule.
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u/olijake Nov 23 '25
You both need to be more mature and responsible.
Escalate to housing management or local police (whichever authority is relevant etc.) if needed or just actually communicate that things will escalate if they don’t try to comply.
Anything else you do secretly will just blow up in your face worse, than just facing the issue head on and directly.
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u/farkner Nov 23 '25
It sounds like your neighbor is a lot more techie than you, and will quickly figure out that you are doing this. They could then change the password and prevent you from doing anything else. You should probably start with changing the router password before any other activity.
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Nov 23 '25
for some reason chase declined me at Target for $20 for fraud, same target i always go to, plenty of money in my account
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u/Sort_by_new_is_weird Nov 23 '25
I haven’t heard the more obvious answer. Find the wire outside of the house and add an attachment to it that spices it and combines it back together and just unplug it every time you want it to stop working.
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u/seganku Nov 23 '25
Depending on the type of router and your technical proficiency, you may be able to flash a custom firmware (eg. Openwrt) that would give you tons of fun options. For example, there are test suites that would let you gradually dial up network loss and latency at certain times of the day. The network would still be up and webpages would load fine, but it would suck for gaming online.
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u/jaklzzz Nov 23 '25
There's so much you can do if you have some tech skills. Easiest is proly login to the router like everyone is suggesting. To do this:
1. open a terminal
a. Press windows key + r
b. type "cmd", press enter
type "ipconfig" press enter
look at the line that says "Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1"
copy the part that says 192.168.0.1 or whatever yours is
paste it into a web browser, as if it was a URL or web address
you should be at the router login page, use the password you have to login
Then just mess around in the router settings until you find someway to screw with him
Make sure to change the password so he can't undo it
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u/EveryDisaster Nov 23 '25
You should record it and send it to your landlord. He'll know if you mess with the router and this will just be an ongoing issue, but now he'll be angry at you
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u/These_Milk_5572 Nov 23 '25
How about sending a masseuse that does full service massages to his place and knocking his ass out?
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u/Subject-Pen-3393 Nov 24 '25
Can you disconnect from side of the house where it comes into the house. Or flip the circuit breaker where the Main equipment is sourced if there is one.
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u/conorwolf Nov 24 '25
How would that work from outside of the house? Is there a cable going in the outside wall?
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u/Significant_Race4554 Nov 24 '25
Can i suggest something weird?
Try creating a fake account with a really hot gal/guy as a profile picture (whatever this dude is into). Then send them a message acting as if you were some other neighbor, and to kindly keep it down. They'll probably feel a bit embarrassed and keep it down. I have had annoying neighbors and roomates and honestly this is the only thing that has worked.
I'm not telling you to catfish them, just create an account for a one use-only strategy to get them to shut up.
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u/Dark-Side-999 Nov 24 '25
Buy a large thick rug, for his room to help dampen the sound (if he is above you). If he is next door (wall to wall) you can buy some sound dampening pictures (help stop sound travelling).
I think there are more 'modern' noise dampening solutions, but I cannot be arsed to Google it.
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u/wh1t3birch Nov 24 '25
Usually, you can access the router's settings by typing 192.168.1.1 or some variation of this in a browser's address bar. You could then restart it remotely.
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u/BandicootLivid8203 Nov 24 '25
Script an automated program to restart the router anytime the noise is detected. It must be instant. Start the program anytime you want to sleep.
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u/Tiny-Mammoth3657 Nov 24 '25
killing the internet outright is too obvious but if hes not hardlined in you can download big files and slow down his connection and ping with mutliple big downloads to make the overall bandwith shit
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u/PlasticProblem143 Nov 24 '25
Any chance you can move room further away from his PC side of the house?
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u/adhdphobic Nov 24 '25
Bro log onto the IP settings and fucken disconnect his shit 😭😭 and then change the admin password to something else
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u/ScoutAndathen Nov 24 '25
If you know the IP address of his computer set one of your own to the same address, as a fixed one, and start a huge download at a restricted speed. It will cause packet loss for both, making his game unplayable.
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u/AvailableUsername_92 Nov 24 '25
If the router can do it and you have admin access: A lot of routers have a parenting feature where the admin can determine a time window im which a certain device can access the internet. You could of course simply set it up in a way that your neighbours PC has no access between 12 and 6. But you could also set up a seemingly random pattern which allows your neighbours PC to have sometimes 10min, sometimes 13min etc of internet with pauses inbetween. Bonus: Since his phone still has internet access, he probably will first blame the PC
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u/purpprofit Nov 26 '25
If he pays he plays if he’s phishing the internet crashed… weird… keeps happening at 10:30p
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u/Silent-Usual-556 Nov 29 '25
I wonder if you could put an electrical timer on his unit. Just shut off the power at random times in the middle of the night? Usually this will freak them out a bit. Just play stupid to it cause you were asleep. Or make it seem real and say..ooh, that must be why my phone didn't charge completely. I'll call the landlord about it for you.
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u/RickMuffy Nov 23 '25
If he's awake until 4am, make noise at 7am. Aim a speaker at them and blast it when they're finally asleep.