What's the funniest WiFi network name you've seen?
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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. 🤷🏽♀️
Speed over strength. It doesn’t need to go further, just faster.
Oh, behave.
Should be “Old Signals in Your Area”
So maybe more like "Hot Signals Near You" and "Mediocre Signals In Your Area" to signal the difference in distance
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.
I had Zoidberg "(\/)(,;;,)(\/)" for awhile. And, yeah, not all devices liked that.
I like you
Elaborate on the "confuses the hell out of macs" statement please.
At least on the wife's Mac it sometimes sees it fine but sometimes refuses to connect or even see it
That's all WiFi on a Mac.
Source: have a Mac.
Interesting my neighbor is a network engineer and has a Mac for work, I think I might set up another SSID with this to see his reaction.
Omg I love it
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. 
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”!
Mine is named Connecting... My guest network is Reconnecting...
Mine is "Searching..."
Martin Router King Jr
Router I hardly know 'er
5G Covid Test Tower 37692b
ItHertzWhenIP
Damn you, I snorted a bit in public.
Oh no! I'm so sorry :(
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.
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 'the LAN before time'
I set my dads as LAN Down Under
The Promised LAN
Guest and private networks respectively: This LAN is your LAN. This LAN is my LAN.
still rocking 802.11b?
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".
Hide your kids, hide your wi-fi.
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.
TellMyWifiLoveHer
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.
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"
WutangLAN
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!
2 girls 1 router
"Hello. I'm a cybersecurity researcher. I'm here to do a penetration test."
I think he meant 2 girls 1 cup, if you don't know please don't search for it. After seeing you'll get a limp dick.
Good job, now he'll definitely search for it.
Why? I clearly said not to search
"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.
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.
Panic at the Ciscois up there for me.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"
Been using WuTangLan for quite awhile. When I started splitting 5ghz and 2.4, we added MyWiFiFu.
"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:
https://old.lemmy.world/comment/5993464
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.
Yep: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JUNRzYJcyr8&t=4m46s
Wild!
How would one counter act this? Turn off ESSID broadcast?
I've been using Ermagherd Hertspert for years. Still makes me chuckle once in a while.
One of my favourites is from a movie!
ThePromisedLAN
"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.
I've got "Little Silhouetto of a LAN" and "Caught in a LANslide" for the 5 and 2.4ghz
My neighbours' "PrettyFlyForAWiFi"
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.
[unavailable]
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
Connecting...
And yes it got me.
For a while mines been:
"Free Public WiFi" for my secure main network
"Secure Home Network No Touchy" as my open guest network
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!
I saw "Martin Router King" and the classical "BND Überwachungsfahrzeug"(BND=German surveillance Service). Überwachungsfahrzeug means surveillance vehicle.
My guest network was called ShareYourWifi, but my wife made me change it
Set my friend’s WiFi to “Muggle Magic”
mine is "im in your walls", going for the creepy factor
CIA Van nr. 8 (unsecured)
Free Virus
Martin Router King, from my wireless internet exam last semester
Wow that's a quick way to find out if someone pronounces it "Rooter" or "Rowter"
So true
NachoWiF(e)i
I live close to a train station and mine is called: "[name of the operator]_public“ wonder how many people tried to connect😅
My buddy upgraded to a mesh network and named it 'one wifi to bind them'
Heard a story about a wifi network in an apartment building called 'We can hear you having sex'
Used "Super WAN" for my 5Ghz and "Bat WAN" for my 2.4Ghz.
NetworkError
Mine has been WaiFu for the last couple years.
I lived in the hood for a while, and a neighbor's wifi was called CrackWhoreNet.
"HP Laserjet M402DN", one of my least favorite desktop laser printers.
Reminds me of an apartment I used to live in where there was a completely open wifi with an open and shared RW hard drive from the root on the network. I left them a post it note and slipped a card under the door a week or so later without them making any change. Finally printed their resume to their own printer with added massive text in the middle saying something like "for your sake you need to stop sharing everything in the network!"
It was gone within a day. In my head they unplugged it all in a panic. =)
At my old house, mine was NeverGonnaGiveYouUp. Nobody continued it for all the five years I was there, as far as I could tell :(
I set my parents wifi to FBIVAN back when I was living with them. I think my siblings took that router with them when they moved out and I'm pretty sure they never changed it
I just changed mine to porqueFi, I thought it was clever...
Its a yes from me!
I also like whyNotFi.
Mines is currently riders of roWAN
my neighbor's wifi is Routers of Rohan
Pretty fly for a wifi
Abraham Linksys
Bill Wi the Science Fi
Beakmans World Wide Web
Hey! This is mine!
Great minds think alike 😉
For a while mine was named "Get off my lawn"
I'm gonna tweak this to "Get off my WLAN" since it's a relatable anagram
This is mine too! My phone's hotspot is "Get off my lawn you damn kids".
ICanHearYouSnoringFromHere
I came across a network named estrogen. Someone took the time to login to the router and change the name but didn't change the default username and password. I changed it to testosterone...
I was always a fan of: ᒣᒥப߹/ΔП
Ah, hello! I can't find the internet.
"No somos los marihuanos" (We're not the stoners)
(But they were)
MachoLANRandySavage
I'm personally a fan of:
"New Wi-Fi Who Dis" and "Spaceballs: The Wi-Fi"
PercheFi which translates to WhyFi in Italian
My guest WiFi is called Honeypot. I leave it up even when guests aren't around, but for some reason none of my neighbors have tried to connect. Either they're all much more tech savvy or much less tech savvy than I give them credit.
My home network used to be named "Network Name? Why not Zoidberg?"
I had trouble thinking up an original, funny name so I've just gone with "Lorem Ipsum" in the meantime
Can You See Where IP
Mine's "Abraham Linksys"
One of ours uses that too, lol
"Get your own stuff sucker"
Bring Beer and Women to [apartment number]
For the Dutch people here: Michiel de Router
We moved into a very posh neighborhood and when hooking up our kit there was one that read, “Money cannot buy you class”.
FBI Surveillance Van
I've seen that used at a local burrito shop near me
Are you sure you aren't being followed?
ITHertzwhenIP
8hz&IP
Mine's We don't have WiFi
It's fun when guests ask "what's your WiFi called?" I tell them and they're baffled by all the electronics everywhere and me "not having" WiFi.
To be paired with "imnotgivingyouthepassword" to log in
I've been banging your wifi
I got a "No Wi-Fi for you!" near me
One day someone will break in, remove the pass and change SSID to "WiFi for all!".
I thought I was so creative...
My phone hotspot is "Cease The Investigation!".
FBI Surveillance Van
For any fans of the Venture Bros mine is "the guild of calamitous internet"
My neighbor's is The_Booty_Warrior.
Obi WLAN Kenobi
How is this not ObiWAN Kenobi
I don't know, maybe because WiFi isn't WAN?
LAN SOLO
Go! Go! Gadget internet!
Lovense Turbo Max
It's dated but it still makes me chuckle so I leave it. Mines called Series of Tubes.
My last one was named Super Mario LAN :)
Underworld Connections
Sibling connection of friends is low places
I have a stream
Skynet. (It has been for years and finally it got relevant again.)
Internet Explorer
The password for my wifi is "alluppercase". I also used to have "IDontKnow" and "DontAskMe". Its fun when new people visit.
That's evil. I love it. I've used variants of:
"its-all-caps-AND.all.dash.separated"
Obviously I had to quit it beacuse, done well, it's completely insufferable.
Error_404 here.
Ours is "Eternal Flame Crematorium". No specific reason, we just like the sound of it
Sounds like a band name
My last 2 routers were:
Router?ihardlyknewher
And
Router66
my coworker asked to borrow a router for troubleshooting. I changed the SSID before giving it to him to: "2 inches and loving it"
FBIWiretap
This is actually one of my SSIDs. FlowersByIrene
There was one named FBIMobileSurveillance once. It was weird because it would dissapear for a while then come back.
I'm sure the black suv that would randomly sit in different locations along the highway, (even in the median) with a guy on a computer in the driver seat had nothing to do with it... dundundunnn
Haven't seen the network or the van in a couple of years...
Just sayin.
We called ours FBIWatchingVan, when I was living with left-activists.
Yeah, I don't really think they were actually related. The suv was way to far away to really be in range. I think he was more there for the on going road construction...The timing was great though.
I don't really know my neighbors that well. Most likely it was a renter, or maybe the cop that used to live down the street had a funny sense of humor. .
HzWANIP is probably the funniest thing I ever did
StuckStepCisco
"I can hear you having sex"
Bird Up! WiFi Down!
Barbara
Not mine, but saw "ClickHere4BBC".
They just really like the British Broadcasting Corporation!
Bloody right mate!
my go-to is "net-twerk"
Mines Chocolate Starfish
Neighbors have Kenny and Kenny-5G, another has PrettyFlyforAWiFi.
The folks around me just used the factory settings on most of theirs. Mines SlytherLAN and GryffWANdor with the guest network set as Hufflepuff-puff-pass.
Umm... something something Ravenclaw joke.
My own.
TellMyWiFiLoveHer
Mine guest network is Free Public WiFi. Only one person at my place has gotten the joke so far.
What exactly is the joke? 🤔
https://computer.rip/2023-07-29-Free-Public-WiFi.html
Ok what's the joke in 50 words or fewer?
Back in the day, if you joined an adhoc mesh network - ever - then Win XP would broadcast that network SSID anytime you weren't connected to anything else.
So once, someone somewhere created an ad hoc network named "Free Public Wi-Fi" and people being people, someone else connected to it. After that, every time their laptop had no other viable connection, their machine would offer "Free Public Wi-Fi"... and the machine of anyone else who connected would behave the same way.
Sorry, that's more than fifty words.
Tl;Dr: it was an accidental virus that took advantage of a bug in human psychology. And Windows XP. Eventually, XP was patched.
It followed the spirit of the request gracefully, I appreciate you
ThirdGuyonerouter was the funniest I see in my town.