What are some funny WiFi network names you've run into?
Ah the humble service set identifier! It seems to have grown from a simple way for access points to identify themselves to potential clients to a little public bulletin board for airing one's grievances toward noisy neighbors or showcasing one's wit.
What notable SSIDs have you run into out in the wild or created yourself?
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My Wi-Fi is named “Tell My Wi-Fi Love Her”
“Happy WiFi Happy Life”
Be better if it was "LiFi"
Tellmywifisaidhello
Tellmywifihadababyitsaboy
"Who was it, honey?" "It was Bob. They had a baby. It's a boy."
Man, commercials just used to live in your head like that. This was for 1-800 collect or one of the many, many copycats, right?
It was a Geico ad which took advantage of it being the era with all those competing collect-call services everyone knew about.
I'm pretty sure the commercial was before my time. I managed to catch the very tail-end of collect calls and payphones, though. I definitely used this trick all the time to get my parents to come out and collect (heh) me from school or the mall as a broke tween. It annoyed the shit out of them haha
Tell My WIFIm At Work
Great story inbound!
Named my router FBI Surveillance Van #3 back in 2015 or so. Thought nothing of it.
Next door neighbor told me the weed dealer at the end of the block was losing his mind, asking if neighbor had seen the van on his wi-fi! Best part, the weed man was just far enough away for the signal to fade in and out, like a roving vehicle. No one ever told him. 😆
EDIT: Long as I'm doing dumb tech stories...
Printed one of those "voice activated printer" signs for the company printer. Figured someone would have a giggle. Walking by, I caught my co-worker yelling, "PRINT! PRINT! Damn you! PRINT!" and giving the printer the evil eye. She was not amused. At all.
I had basically the same idea following a similar thread in a forum around 12 years ago.
Not FBI,but something similar from my country. Luckily I only used it for my physically seperated guest network(totally different connection)
... Thanks to Ubiquiti being asshats and not telling people about a zero day for months it got hacked and renamed into "FreeWeedAndFreeBeerIfyouringat{MyLastName}". They even replaced the background of the portal page with a carefully crafted picture explaining how they did it.
... I very much suspected the two CS students next door,especially as the range was shit and it was either them, someone with a really sophisticated array and (as you couldn't park in our street it would even be hard for a average wardriver to do so easily) and I very much rule out the 90 year old lady below us or the family who both were,well,rather non technical it seems. (He asked for help to set up his TV)
... As revenge,when one of them got a girlfriend who was as pretty as she was loud we set up a small open wifi on a mikrotik device which was just strong enough to go through one wall that was named "WeCanHearYouHavingSex" that lead to a fileserver that had a .wav in it with a five second proof of that and then Rick Ashley.
... He kindly asked for that being turned off before christmas when his parents would visit.
Diabolical! It would never have occurred to me to include proof!
No way, thats exactly what i named my dads wifi when i set it up for him 😂
#3 and all?! 😆
Yea haha, with the # and everything xD
My 5GHz: Hot Signals In Your Area
My 2.4GHz: Mediocre Signals In Your Area
I still have a lot of love for 2.4GHz just because of how much farther the signal reaches than 5GHz. Mediocre only in the sense that it's slower and that there's too many avenues of potential interference (microwaves, other 2.4GHz devices clogging the spectrum).
troyandabedinthemodem
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
fourwordsalluppercase
Mine is named "Searching..."
It's caught a few friends out
How long did they wait?
A friend used to have ItHurtsWhenIP
This was my phone hotspot for a while, but it was "ItHzWhenIP"
I've also seen ITHertzWANIP
My 2.4 is "Sir IP alot", and my 5g is "Sir IP alot faster".
I see one of those in my neighborhood.
My best friend named his "Bill Wi The Science Fi"
Welp, I found my new wifi name.
FBI Surveillance Van used to be nearby. Not around anymore.
Got a singleconnect close.
RCMP Surveillance Horse
Friend of mine in southern Ontario labels his
OPP_surveillance_van_001
OPP_surveillance_van_002
OPP_surveillance_van_003
Three different wifi ssids for one house? Bold.
Seen crazy brilliant shit at DefCon trying to remember..,
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."
That's what she SSID
Mine is "The LAN Before Time"
I've also seen "LAN of the Lost"
My sister had me set the name for the Wi-Fi extender as "Papa John's Pizza and Abortions." For the record, my mother's side of the family are mostly hardcore Catholics.
(I think I mentioned this once before on a similar thread.)
Let me guess, the password is "YourLossIsOurSauce"
Pretty Fly For A WiFi
Are you my neighbor?
Wi-fi is a wireless connection, hence the "wi" part, but sending wireless signals is not new - smoke signals are another option, so my network is the full name: Wireless fireless.
I find it funny that they thought to copy "Hi-Fi" when fidelity isn't really how 802.11 works since it has an entire digital layer, though now I kinda of miss that they dropped it lol.
Cat emojus
It's fun learning which firmware breaks when trying to deal with it
No Place Like 127.0.0.1
Be it ever so humble, there is no place like 127.0.0.1.
No place like 0177.0x1.
IPintheshower
It hertz when ip
Every neighborhood has a FBI Surveillance Van and a Pretty Fly For A WiFi, just like every marina has a boat named Seas The Day and Wet Dream
Here in my country I've seen many "Martin Router King"
I live on Martin Luther King street so it makes sense. 🙂
Yes, we have the "fly" one exactly.
Dobby is a TERF - right next to the Harry Potter gift shop in Edinburgh
Terf?
Congratulations on being one of today's lucky 10,000
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.
My sister's network is named:
Ce n'est pas un réseau
Non-euro keyboards: YOU SHALL NOT PASS
When was the last time you had to type the SSID?
My home wifi is so weak in my room that my phone doesn't display it in the list, but when I manually add network and type out the SSID and password, it connects.
OnlyLANs
ICanHearYouHavingSex was in a friend’s building
If that was in eastern Germany 10 years ago...that was me and I had my reasons,see above.
Buddy had one of those barely FCC compliant wifi "debugger" boards, so for a while we actually had an entire armada of FBI surveillance vehicles, vans, and a helicopter on every 2.4ghz channel lol.
I dont know if fake SSID advertisements really impede actual stations, but it was pretty funny seeing 15 SSIDs coming from a single, almost thumbstick size board.
It's literally just a packet with the ssid and related info in it, shouted into the void. It becomes an issue if you shout so much that other people's traffic is effectively jammed, otherwise, have fun.
Maybe you could get a wifi channel to yourself by adding a bunch of fake AP's on the same channel, and having your neighbouring routers automatically switch to a "less crowded" channel.
They might use more heuristics than just the number of ssid's advertised on a channel though.
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
I've carried over Silence of The LANs to multiple routers for so many years now. An old favourite.
My neighbor's is "a series of tubes"
Mine is "Get Off my LAN!".
Similar ones I've seen are LAN down Under and LAN before time
Somewhere in my vicinity is "Wu Tang Lan" And mine is called "mum look I got internet"
I would really hope the password for Wu Tang LAN is "isforthechildren"
I would have three, but my router company way oversold their capabilities. Ideally
Yet somehow my WiFi only allows two and there’s no segmented networks
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
The usual ones being House Lanister and Martin Router King.
I enjoy when ever I see a "Wu Tang lan"
That's one is my neighbors
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
it hurts when IP
Obi Wlan Kenobi
Milutin Miwlanković
I always want to do it burns when IP or 8 Hz WAN IP but we regularly have guests so I opted for something mundane.
In college I always named my router Skynet.
Ours has been "hide yo kids hide yo wifi" for about 15 years probably.
I'm keen on my own: NecromancerGlitterPonies
Mine is coincidentally named "Where's the ponies?" 🤣
One of mine is:
ITHertzWhenIP
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 did that for my mobile hotspot. No one got it :(
I use Abraham Linksys, even now that I've moved on from Linksys routers (mostly too lazy to update all my IoT devices).
Alot of networks around here, the fbi van pops up from time to time, and then 15 generic modem routers and in the middle of that list is "one of many".
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
Pretty Fly for a Wifi
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
Once, in vacation, I found a WiFi named "Bob Marley". I don't know anything about Bob Marley, I hate reggae so I'm not interested but I know "No woman no cry" because we learned it at school. So here I was typing "nowomannocry" as password and guess what, I was logged in. 😂
So it is not the SSID in itself which was fun but I figured it was not too unrelated to your question. 😅
"Evil Lair"
"Invisible Wire"
Pretty_Fly_4_a_WiFi
My last one was 'Insert WiFi Pun Here' because I couldn't think of a good one in the spot.
This LAN is my LAN
This LAN is your LAN (guest Wifi)
At one of the CeX I go to, the WiFi is called something like "SafeCeX"
ours is "flamingos for sale" 🦩
Mine is YourKidsAreBrats for the loud screechy neighborhood kids next door.
UncleTouchysNakedPuzzleBasement
I named mine: MomclickhereforInternet
My phone WiFi hotspot is called JabbaTheHub
My phone wifi hotspot is Kaer Morhen. Not a clever pun at all, but it makes me happy.
My son uses KittyPorn.
Meow 🙀
Wrong thread the question was how his wlan is called
Kitty Kitty Kitty
NSA Surveillance Vehicle #2
One of my neighbors is The_Booty_Warrior. My hypothesis is that's the pear-shaped Army chick that lives across the street, but it might be the balding middle aged family man two doors down.
If you can wander around with kismet and a GPS sensor on a laptop, you can map the location of a WAP.
Just make sure to bring a mop and a bucket for that WAP
Mine used to be "Network Name? Why not Zoidberg?"
“99 problems, but wi-fi ain’t one” is mine currently.
Router?IHardlyKnowHer!
I always feel sketch at the international airport connecting to "Airport WiFi" network...
My hotspot is BigFatDonkeyDick.
Is this a reference to that court case transcript?
No i made this up before that I think... I'm just sipremely and eternally 12 years old in my humor.
I named mine "skynet"
I've seen internet not available and drop it like it's hotspot for hotspots but not really anything for WiFi networks yet
My guest wifi is “OpenWiFi” and the key is “iwillnotgiveyouthepassword”
Setting up a guest network for hub's basement brewery.
We are australian. His initials are JB.
JB Wifi
I think I'm gonna have to name my next one "Jen this is the internet" or something similar
My SSID has always been "InfectedWithVirus".
My home wifi is "Terok Nor", and my mobile hotspot is "runabout".
What do that mean?
It's a Deep Space Nine reference
HardCockSoftRock
Reference to the the hard rock casino
IPandPoop
"Tweakers Live Downstairs". They were right.
When I did van life for a while my hotspot was FBI Surveilled Van.
Albuquerque has a major street named Juan Tabo and every time I drove past I wondered who that was, after a dozen times I finally remembered to look it up when I got home and found out that it was just some non-noteworthy guy lost to time. Network became 'discount Juan Tabo lookalike'.
Oh yeah, at my current laundromat there are like 6 networks pretending to be the laundromat's free wifi for the sake of confusion.
Saw a similar net here: "FBI Surveillance Van". Fun fact: this is not in the US.
Look Ma No Wires
my two favorites are: DropItLikeItsHotSpot YouCantTakeWiFiFromMe
Prty2nite@[address],FreeBeer
We hear you having sex
WhyFigh
TooFlyforAWIFI is mine
Reboot tot connect
I like the old cyberpunk references, wintermute, black sun empire, etc
This shit aint free
"Devko, poseru ti kozy" a reference to a start of a czech song :D
I have a few: Build the Firewall! Grab her by the ISP A Kanye 2020 sign Porn and cat videos