What's the funniest WiFi network name you've seen?
Synthead@lemmy.world kindly commented that wifi network names of you and your neighbour can be used to locate your address, so please be aware to avoid betraying your privacy. Peace!
My 5gHz is “Hot Signals in Your Area.” My 2.4gHz is “Mediocre Signals in Your Area.”
But technically the signal strength of 2.4 goes farther than 5, so this one hurts my brain. Perhaps because when I think mediocre signals... I think mediocre signal strength. 🤷🏽♀️
It hurts when IP
8Hz WAN IP
Hahaha regional dialect!
I use 17Hz WAN IP
FTFY: It hertz when IP
It confuses the hell out of Macs and some Linux stuff refuses to connect.
Saw a 5Ghz one called “COVID Vaccine”
I called my 5Ghz "Virus Distribution Centre"
Mines been named “WiFiArtThouRomeo” for, like, 20 years. Don’t know if it’s funny, but I think it’s cute. 
Mine is named Connecting... My guest network is Reconnecting...
Mine is "Searching..."
Our neighbors grow weed, so my brother set one up as DEA Surveillance Van.
When we moved into our new place there was, “FBI Surveillance Van 1” and a “…2”!
Martin Router King Jr
Router I hardly know 'er
5G Covid Test Tower 37692b
Had one named "FBI Surveillance Van #3". I know, not so creative even 10-years ago, but read on.
Guy at the end of the street sold weed. He was telling my neighbor to be on the lookout, there was an FBI van cruising around. Being at the end of the street, my signal faded in and out like it was moving. Dude was freaked the fuck out.
When I use my phone hotspot it is named RCMP Surveillance Horse #69
LOL, you're even more country-fried than I am! Maybe I should name my mobile spot, "Fish & Wildlife #23".
I had one with my countrys version of the "Van". Then ubiquity had a zero day exploit become public knowledge back then and someone renamed the SSID "NotThePolice". Didn't do anything else. Just that.
ItHertzWhenIP
Damn you, I snorted a bit in public.
Oh no! I'm so sorry :(
Lord of the Pings
Man is it that slow? 😅
Visited a CeX store.
Their locked, employee-only Wi-Fi: Protected CeX
Their open public WiFi: Unprotected CeX
Glad they're keeping it safe at work.
RCMP SURVEILLANCE MOOSE #2091
This inspired my “CSIS Surveillance Goose #247”
The craziest part is that you live in Florida.
Mine is "GetOffMyLAN". Then one of my neighbors changed theirs to "GetOffMyLan69". I'm not even mad.
Reminds me of when our street had an Area 51, new neighbours moved in and immediately set up Ayy Lmao.
User name does not check out
I went with "Encrypted for Your Pleasure".
From Auntie Donna's Big 'ol House of Fun, "pretty fly for a WiFi"
Lol! Lookie what I just found:
You wanna have a couple of bevvies with the boys?
"pretty fly for a wifi" is super common, I see it all the time.
Definitely predates aunty donna
Can't believe they actually got Jerry Seinfeld for that episode.
Hide your kids, hide your wi-fi.
For a while I used “Loading…”
I use this too. I've had people over who wanted to connect to the Wi-Fi, pulled up the list, and waited for a minute because "it's still loading!"
11/10, no regrets.
TellMyWifiLoveHer
One of my older ones was "WeDontHaveWifi" because people would say "what's your wifi?" and we would tell them that and sometimes they would say "ohh, ok" and not ask for the password, haha. Password, incidentally, was "whatPassword?"
Lol, that's my current one!
I once saw one in my apartment building called “f-u-Mike” and I’ve always wondered which Mike in the building the owner was mad at and why
is mike from finance
The geology dorm at my university had one called "geology rocks", always made me chuckle.
"Chicks dig paleontologists"
I work for an ISP. I got you fam.
I can't think of more right now, but I see many every work week.
"Deez Nutzwork" lmfao!
WutangLAN
"CovidVaccineActivation5G"
My sister had me name the wi-fi extender as "Papa John's Pizza and Abortions". My mother's side of the family is Catholic. We're still waiting for one of them to notice it
NotaHoneyPot
On an unsecured, password free hotspot.
███████ Scratch off for password
"All my neighbours are cunts"
Mine is Trogdor.
I should make the password consummate v's.
The password should definitely be:
THATCHROOFCOTTAGES!!!
Password should be Fhqwhgads. Come on Fhqwhgads, I said come on Fhqwhgads. Everybody to the limit, everybody to the limit, everybody come on Fhqwhgads!
The system is down
This guy wouldn’t know majesty if it came up and bit him in the butt.
Face. Bit him in the face.
ThouShaltNotCovetThyNeighborsWiFi
Panic at the Cisco is up there for me.
I once saw "Mom, use this one" and I giggled.
Nice. That's a whole tale of joy, adorableness, frustration, and brilliance, all in a Wifi SSID.
I use "Router? I hardly know her!" for my 5Ghz, "Tell Your Wifi Say Hi!" for my 2.4Ghz
Funny, I used to use "Router? I hardly know her!" and eventually changed it (for reasons I can't remember) to "TellMyWifiLoveHer"
"404 Network Unavailable" and "FBI Surveillance Van #273"
Lol I'm definitely stealing that fbi one, I love fucking with paranoid people
You gonna love my story then:
I've been using Ermagherd Hertspert for years. Still makes me chuckle once in a while.
Heads up that there are ways to look up locations for access point ESSIDs. You can basically narrow it down to an address. If you share a neighbor's ESSID also, it greatly helps ensure that they have the right address.
Wow, I never knew. I'll edit my post to mention this so people are aware in case it's their own.
How would one counter act this? Turn off ESSID broadcast?
Been using WuTangLan for quite awhile. When I started splitting 5ghz and 2.4, we added MyWiFiFu.
"SECURE YOUR NETWORK DIPASS"
This was back in the days when routers defaulted to no encryption with a stock password for the UI. Also I was the one who changed random people's SSID to that when I found an unsecured network.
One of my favourites is from a movie!
ThePromisedLAN
I've got "Little Silhouetto of a LAN" and "Caught in a LANslide" for the 5 and 2.4ghz
For a while mines been:
"Free Public WiFi" for my secure main network
"Secure Home Network No Touchy" as my open guest network
My neighbours' "PrettyFlyForAWiFi"
Connecting...
And yes it got me.
i've seen "💩" a while ago. That was pretty funny - just a little inconvenient at times I guess.
I use that for my WiFi hotspot, spreading 💩 everywhere I go.
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I guess it's supposed to deter people from using it or something, but I have to admit that it did confuse me for a hot minute.
My mobile hotspot name is Win32Virus.exe
The looks when I turn it on in an airport...
The ultimately stupid name would be "Allahu Akbar". That would maybe cause some trouble.
Nothing will ever top "Galaxy Note 7". Super fun in planes, especially if they're flying.
With today's date in it, for real immediate effect
Ours is OohAahFhqwhgads
Everybody to the limit, the Cheat is to the limit
Games, toons, chawacters
Downloads!
David Bowie's Nipple Antennae
Did you use that WiFi to TRANSMIT DATA BACK TO EARTH?
I betcha do, ya freaky old bastard, you!