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I know some may think this is a dumb question or that what I am looking for is not the right solution, but I really need your help. This is my situation: my younger sister dropped school, and now all she does is being online on her laptop. I don't even see her sleep anymore, all she does is being online, I wouldn't mind if she would do something productive online, but she doesn't. Parents don't even care and I already tried talking to her many times, nothing seems to work. So I want start slowing down her internet connection to encourage her to start doing other activities.
I know I could do this with QoS in the router but my router doesn't have those settings and living in a pretty poor country I really can't afford buying a new one, plus she could use granpa, aunts, or my older sister internet. I tried editing the QoS Bandwidth Reserve Limit on windows (XP), but that didn't have any effect, I enabled it and set it to 90% and restarted the computer and the speed is the same. Also tested 3 or 4 softwares I found on google but they are all pretty obvious, they keep an icon on the systray and it's easy to notice them.
I need something like a registry hack, or a process that wont show a tray icon or window, or maybe some startup script that would try to download (and then delete) a (or multiple) temp file like those from http://www.thinkbroadband.com/download.html, enough to slow down internet so youtube and online games are not usable anymore. She connects only via wifi and uses windows XP.
Does someone knows a software or a solution for this? (please reply only the tech aspect, not the family issue)
Thanks in advance.
millimx1
Posted 2014-03-23T03:41:16.753
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We really don't need the backstory. Just ask what you want to do remove everything else. QoS really isn the only solution for what you want. Everything else ( software ) can be modified by the user. – Ramhound – 2014-03-23T03:45:38.577
What model router ? – davidgo – 2014-04-04T07:37:06.503