For the longest time I had "FBI Van" and "NSA Van" for my 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands respectively. 0 cool stories with that scheme, until I changed the 5ghz one to "Ganon's Tower" and a neighbor eventually joined me and named his wifi "Hyrule Castle". We kept that for a few years until the neighbor moved, I believe
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Mine is YourKidsAreBrats for the loud screechy neighborhood kids next door.
I always feel sketch at the international airport connecting to "Airport WiFi" network...
My hotspot is BigFatDonkeyDick.
Setting up a guest network for hub's basement brewery.
We are australian. His initials are JB.
- Beer&Sausage
- LukeIamYourWifi
- Networking925
- TheLanBeforeTime
- WeCanHearYouInBed
- YourHeadBoardsLoose
- TellYourWiFiSaidHello
“99 problems, but wi-fi ain’t one” is mine currently.
WhyFigh
my two favorites are: DropItLikeItsHotSpot YouCantTakeWiFiFromMe
Bill Wi the Science Fi
Wu Tang LAN
Pretty Fly for a Wifi
Uncle Touchy's Puzzle Basement
Samsung Smart Vibrator
This LAN Is My LAN_5G
This LAN Is Your LAN_2.4G
Mine is "We don't have WiFi", so when guests ask what ours is called, I tell them then get to watch their face go through five different stages as they look around at all my tech...
Then my wife gets to explain to people what the joke is while I giggle like a 5 year old being tickled.
And the password is: "TheCodeisontheBackoftheRouter1"
I've encountered the password "itsonthefridge"
LONGPASSWORDALLCAPS
Thereisnopassword
I knew someone who used Unicode glyphs to name their wifi the following string: ┓┏ 凵 =╱⊿┌┬┐
It was a reference to a Doctor Who episode in which people were getting zapped by the monster of the week after connecting to a mysterious alien wifi network.
I like the old cyberpunk references, wintermute, black sun empire, etc
Dobby is a TERF - right next to the Harry Potter gift shop in Edinburgh
Terf?
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TERF - Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist
A name that some bigots have given themselves to appear presentable, because they're saying they're "protecting women" from a minority group that makes up less than 1% of the population (Trans People.) They're basically a bigoted hate group, and/or a cult.
JK Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, famously is one of them, and funnels a lot of her money into that hate group. Dobby is one of her characters.
I named mine: MomclickhereforInternet
At one of the CeX I go to, the WiFi is called something like "SafeCeX"
Ours has been "hide yo kids hide yo wifi" for about 15 years probably.
I use Abraham Linksys, even now that I've moved on from Linksys routers (mostly too lazy to update all my IoT devices).
Pretty_Fly_4_a_WiFi
Prty2nite@[address],FreeBeer
We hear you having sex
Mine is Bathroom Camera #4
I live in a barrio and not sure how many people in my building can either speak or read English
I feel like that's asking for trouble. You can explain away "FBI surveillance van" because an ounce of common sense will tell you a government agency isn't likely to be so sloppy. But I could see a creepy Airbnb host who's just smart enough to be dangerous doing exactly this.
Not a problem if you're not an air bnb host and you don't wasn't your neighbors to be either...
Nah. Don't be daft
- "Come naked and bring beer"
- "Crack Cave"
- "$name, 2. floor, 23, single"
I used to live near someone who had "Mum use this one", so in OpenWRT I set up several networks with the names:
"Mum use THIS one!" "Mum Use This One" "MUM USE THIS ONE" "Mum use this one (real)" etc, etc
I read one where the wifi password at a bar was "YouGottaBuyADrinkFirst." So... customers would ask for the password, then buy a drink, then ask for the password again and be like "oh... you crafty bastard."
My SSID has always been "InfectedWithVirus".
I've carried over Silence of The LANs to multiple routers for so many years now. An old favourite.
ours is "flamingos for sale" 🦩
When I was living in an apartment complex for students, I saw "secret batcave wlan", so I changed mine to "wayne manor guests"
My network name used to be: DoYouKnowWhyIAmFat? Password: EverytimeIFuckYoMomSheGivesMeACookie#2024
"Tweakers Live Downstairs". They were right.
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