Forums General Discussion Question about my setup help gotten from someone

I only got IRC to join a gaming clan for COD. I knew nothing of IRC when I got it. Glad I have it now!

I joined the team's chat channel and were talking with them and they had me "configure" IRC. I was already in their channel, but didn't see that as being weird. I had to set various things to what they told me. It was about five or six things, and none of them were in menus, all values that I had to type in as they suggested.

Now, I'm not a consipracy guy, but I can't see what the need for any settings since I was already in their channel and everything worked fine. Since this config, my ping went up on all servers about 20-30. I had my maxpackets changed to cheat/above PB limit levels once, though that could have been while I was in their server, etc.

In addition, the clan leader could always seem to see my every move. Yes, he could follow me when he died, but he seemed to "see" more than that. In addition, 2 Sundays, back-to-back, while I was in the clan, my cable modem was out. Never happened before, never again. (After a month in the clan, and after all these strnage occurrences, I quit them).

What I am asking, though it seems far-fetched, is could this high-level knowledge computer guy have manipulated my computer (even if only viewing my gaming on his puter) by having me set a bunch of values that they did? Or could that have been the way into my puter?

Again, I know its way out there, but too many things happened quite strangely at the same time.