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!

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CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world · 128 pts · 2y (5 replies)

My 5gHz is “Hot Signals in Your Area.” My 2.4gHz is “Mediocre Signals in Your Area.”

cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 33 pts · 2y (4 replies)

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. 🤷🏽‍♀️

CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Speed over strength. It doesn’t need to go further, just faster.

littlebluespark@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 2y

Oh, behave.

nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 2y

Should be “Old Signals in Your Area”

key@lemmy.keychat.org · 5 pts · 2y

So maybe more like "Hot Signals Near You" and "Mediocre Signals In Your Area" to signal the difference in distance

forty2@lemmy.world · 106 pts · 2y (4 replies)

It hurts when IP

gramathy@lemmy.ml · 83 pts · 2y (2 replies)

8Hz WAN IP

forty2@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y

Hahaha regional dialect!

daq@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 2y

I use 17Hz WAN IP

YashaB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

FTFY: It hertz when IP

bfg9k@lemmy.world · 98 pts · 2y (7 replies)

This is my main Network name.

It confuses the hell out of Macs and some Linux stuff refuses to connect.

ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I had Zoidberg "(\/)(,;;,)(\/)" for awhile. And, yeah, not all devices liked that.

WhyYesZoidberg@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

I like you

evidences@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Elaborate on the "confuses the hell out of macs" statement please.

bfg9k@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)

At least on the wife's Mac it sometimes sees it fine but sometimes refuses to connect or even see it

AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

That's all WiFi on a Mac.

Source: have a Mac.

evidences@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

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.

time_fo_that@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Omg I love it

cosmictrickster@lemmy.world · 88 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Saw a 5Ghz one called “COVID Vaccine”

Zozano@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 2y

I called my 5Ghz "Virus Distribution Centre"

gregorum@lemm.ee · 77 pts · 2y

Mines been named “WiFiArtThouRomeo” for, like, 20 years. Don’t know if it’s funny, but I think it’s cute. 

slugworth@lemmy.world · 72 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Mine is named Connecting... My guest network is Reconnecting...

pineapplelover@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 2y

Mine is "Searching..."

S0UPernova@lemmy.world · 72 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Our neighbors grow weed, so my brother set one up as DEA Surveillance Van.

Drunemeton@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y

When we moved into our new place there was, “FBI Surveillance Van 1” and a “…2”!

Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 2y

Martin Router King Jr

Router I hardly know 'er

5G Covid Test Tower 37692b

shalafi@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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.

shandrakor@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 2y (1 reply)

When I use my phone hotspot it is named RCMP Surveillance Horse #69

shalafi@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

LOL, you're even more country-fried than I am! Maybe I should name my mobile spot, "Fish & Wildlife #23".

philpo@feddit.de · 15 pts · 2y

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.

SlurpDaddySlushy@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 2y (2 replies)

ItHertzWhenIP

jigsaw250@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Damn you, I snorted a bit in public.

SlurpDaddySlushy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Oh no! I'm so sorry :(

ultra@feddit.ro · 60 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Lord of the Pings

hypnotic_nerd@programming.dev · 6 pts · 2y

Man is it that slow? 😅

lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Visited a CeX store.

Their locked, employee-only Wi-Fi: Protected CeX

Their open public WiFi: Unprotected CeX

MacNCheezus@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 2y

Glad they're keeping it safe at work.

Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 2y (2 replies)

RCMP SURVEILLANCE MOOSE #2091

some_designer_dude@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

This inspired my “CSIS Surveillance Goose #247”

CmdrShepard@lemmy.one · 4 pts · 2y

The craziest part is that you live in Florida.

SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 54 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Mine is 'the LAN before time'

timetravelingnoodles@kbin.social · 37 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I set my dads as LAN Down Under

artofcode@programming.dev · 21 pts · 2y (1 reply)

The Promised LAN

fleet@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 2y

Guest and private networks respectively: This LAN is your LAN. This LAN is my LAN.

gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 2y

still rocking 802.11b?

AngryHumanoid@reddthat.com · 51 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Mine is "GetOffMyLAN". Then one of my neighbors changed theirs to "GetOffMyLan69". I'm not even mad.

livus@kbin.social · 17 pts · 2y

Reminds me of when our street had an Area 51, new neighbours moved in and immediately set up Ayy Lmao.

justanotheruser4@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

User name does not check out

otter@lemmy.zip · 43 pts · 2y

I went with "Encrypted for Your Pleasure".

sdoorex@slrpnk.net · 43 pts · 2y

Hide your kids, hide your wi-fi.

FanciestPants@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 2y (5 replies)

From Auntie Donna's Big 'ol House of Fun, "pretty fly for a WiFi"

remotelove@lemmy.ca · 32 pts · 2y

Lol! Lookie what I just found:

pensivepangolin@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y

You wanna have a couple of bevvies with the boys?

M137@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

"pretty fly for a wifi" is super common, I see it all the time.

datavoid@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2y

Definitely predates aunty donna

funnystuff97@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y

Can't believe they actually got Jerry Seinfeld for that episode.

TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee · 42 pts · 2y

TellMyWifiLoveHer

PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 2y (1 reply)

For a while I used “Loading…”

DesertCreosote@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 2y

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.

MountainGoat@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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?"

ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 2y

Lol, that's my current one!

pensivepangolin@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

sour@kbin.social · 12 pts · 2y

is mike from finance

Sylvartas@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 2y (1 reply)

The geology dorm at my university had one called "geology rocks", always made me chuckle.

RGB3x3@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y

"Chicks dig paleontologists"

baascus@programming.dev · 36 pts · 2y

WutangLAN

littlecolt@lemm.ee · 36 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I work for an ISP. I got you fam.

  • FBI VAN, FBI Surveillance Van, etc...
  • Pretty Fly For A Wi-Fi
  • Hidden Network
  • Get Your Own
  • No Internet Access
  • Net Schwifty
  • ITwimdy
  • Yell Fuck For Password
  • IP Freely
  • My WiFi Left Me
  • SS IDmedes
  • Deez Nutzwork

I can't think of more right now, but I see many every work week.

ZeDespo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

"Deez Nutzwork" lmfao!

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 2y

"CovidVaccineActivation5G"

alphacyberranger@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 2y (4 replies)

2 girls 1 router

Konstant@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y (3 replies)

"Hello. I'm a cybersecurity researcher. I'm here to do a penetration test."

Yoz@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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.

alphacyberranger@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Good job, now he'll definitely search for it.

Yoz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Why? I clearly said not to search

Mint_Raccoon@kbin.social · 30 pts · 2y

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

Pons_Aelius@kbin.social · 29 pts · 2y

NotaHoneyPot

On an unsecured, password free hotspot.

PowerCore7@lemm.ee · 28 pts · 2y

███████ Scratch off for password

MonsterMonster@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 2y

"All my neighbours are cunts"

Kid_Thunder@kbin.social · 26 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Mine is Trogdor.

I should make the password consummate v's.

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y

The password should definitely be:

THATCHROOFCOTTAGES!!!

antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Password should be Fhqwhgads. Come on Fhqwhgads, I said come on Fhqwhgads. Everybody to the limit, everybody to the limit, everybody come on Fhqwhgads!

lessthanthree@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y

The system is down

DoctorWhookah@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

This guy wouldn’t know majesty if it came up and bit him in the butt.

AtariDump@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Face. Bit him in the face.

ArtVandelay@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I once saw "Mom, use this one" and I giggled.

MajorHavoc@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Nice. That's a whole tale of joy, adorableness, frustration, and brilliance, all in a Wifi SSID.

KISSmyOS@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2y
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SEND_NOODLES_PLS@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2y

Panic at the Cisco is up there for me.

SecretSauces@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I use "Router? I hardly know her!" for my 5Ghz, "Tell Your Wifi Say Hi!" for my 2.4Ghz

spongebue@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y

Funny, I used to use "Router? I hardly know her!" and eventually changed it (for reasons I can't remember) to "TellMyWifiLoveHer"

Synthead@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 2y (4 replies)

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.

CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Wow, I never knew. I'll edit my post to mention this so people are aware in case it's their own.

Coasting0942@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 2y

How would one counter act this? Turn off ESSID broadcast?

riccochet@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 2y

I've been using Ermagherd Hertspert for years. Still makes me chuckle once in a while.

vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 2y

Been using WuTangLan for quite awhile. When I started splitting 5ghz and 2.4, we added MyWiFiFu.

hypnotic_nerd@programming.dev · 22 pts · 2y (2 replies)

"404 Network Unavailable" and "FBI Surveillance Van #273"

paradiso@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Lol I'm definitely stealing that fbi one, I love fucking with paranoid people

shalafi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

You gonna love my story then:

https://old.lemmy.world/comment/5993464

shandrakor@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 2y

One of my favourites is from a movie!

ThePromisedLAN

yukichigai@kbin.social · 20 pts · 2y

"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.

overthebrink90@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y

I've got "Little Silhouetto of a LAN" and "Caught in a LANslide" for the 5 and 2.4ghz

sissi@leminal.space · 18 pts · 2y

My neighbours' "PrettyFlyForAWiFi"

exocortex@discuss.tchncs.de · 17 pts · 2y (1 reply)

i've seen "💩" a while ago. That was pretty funny - just a little inconvenient at times I guess.

MimicJar@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

I use that for my WiFi hotspot, spreading 💩 everywhere I go.

justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y

[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.

gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 2y

For a while mines been:

"Free Public WiFi" for my secure main network

"Secure Home Network No Touchy" as my open guest network

Gerbils@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y (3 replies)

My mobile hotspot name is Win32Virus.exe

The looks when I turn it on in an airport...

cows_are_underrated@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

The ultimately stupid name would be "Allahu Akbar". That would maybe cause some trouble.

akash_rawal@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

Nothing will ever top "Galaxy Note 7". Super fun in planes, especially if they're flying.

BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

With today's date in it, for real immediate effect

SnowmenMelt@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y

Connecting...

And yes it got me.

YooperJeff@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Ours is OohAahFhqwhgads

Aleric@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Everybody to the limit, the Cheat is to the limit

time_fo_that@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Games, toons, chawacters

MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Downloads!

cows_are_underrated@feddit.de · 15 pts · 2y

I saw "Martin Router King" and the classical "BND Überwachungsfahrzeug"(BND=German surveillance Service). Überwachungsfahrzeug means surveillance vehicle.

droidpenguin@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y (2 replies)

David Bowie's Nipple Antennae

Housecarl@ttrpg.network · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Did you use that WiFi to TRANSMIT DATA BACK TO EARTH?

BodePlotHole@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

I betcha do, ya freaky old bastard, you!

BustinJiber@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y

CIA Van nr. 8 (unsecured)

justanotheruser4@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y

My guest network was called ShareYourWifi, but my wife made me change it

witchdoctor@lemmy.basedcount.com · 14 pts · 2y

Free Virus

k0mprssd@lemm.ee · 14 pts · 2y

mine is "im in your walls", going for the creepy factor

Grootvader@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y

Set my friend’s WiFi to “Muggle Magic”

Giu176@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Martin Router King, from my wireless internet exam last semester

Ignisnex@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Wow that's a quick way to find out if someone pronounces it "Rooter" or "Rowter"

Giu176@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

So true

cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y

NachoWiF(e)i

sasquash471@feddit.de · 13 pts · 2y

I live close to a train station and mine is called: "[name of the operator]_public“ wonder how many people tried to connect😅

Panurge987@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y

I lived in the hood for a while, and a neighbor's wifi was called CrackWhoreNet.

Caboose12000@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y

NetworkError

Elivey@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y

Mine has been WaiFu for the last couple years.

Honytawk@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 2y

Used "Super WAN" for my 5Ghz and "Bat WAN" for my 2.4Ghz.

gazter@aussie.zone · 12 pts · 2y

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'

DredUnicorn@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Mines is currently riders of roWAN

Albatross2724@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

my neighbor's wifi is Routers of Rohan

Sho@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Pretty fly for a wifi

knightly@pawb.social · 4 pts · 2y

Abraham Linksys

Bill Wi the Science Fi

Beakmans World Wide Web

silverdraco@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Hey! This is mine!

Sho@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y

Great minds think alike 😉

SacrificedBeans@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y

At my old house, mine was NeverGonnaGiveYouUp. Nobody continued it for all the five years I was there, as far as I could tell :(

Copythis@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y (1 reply)

"HP Laserjet M402DN", one of my least favorite desktop laser printers.

Usul_00_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

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. =)

slowwooderrunsdeep@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I just changed mine to porqueFi, I thought it was clever...

ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

I also like whyNotFi.

Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Its a yes from me!

LordRaymond@kbin.social · 11 pts · 2y

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

Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 2y (3 replies)

For a while mine was named "Get off my lawn"

gmanz2142@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 2y

I'm gonna tweak this to "Get off my WLAN" since it's a relatable anagram

woobie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

This is mine too! My phone's hotspot is "Get off my lawn you damn kids".

brewbellyblueberry@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 2y
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jas0n@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y

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...

KittDJW@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y

ICanHearYouSnoringFromHere

Mixairian@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I was always a fan of: ᒣᒥப߹/ΔП

OZFive@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Ah, hello! I can't find the internet.

ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 2y

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.

Zomg@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y

I'm personally a fan of:

"New Wi-Fi Who Dis" and "Spaceballs: The Wi-Fi"

univers3man@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y

MachoLANRandySavage

Lemminary@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y

"No somos los marihuanos" (We're not the stoners)

(But they were)

supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y

PercheFi which translates to WhyFi in Italian

popekingjoe@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y

My home network used to be named "Network Name? Why not Zoidberg?"

RobotZap10000@feddit.nl · 8 pts · 2y

Can You See Where IP

shadshack@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Mine's "Abraham Linksys"

knightly@pawb.social · 1 pts · 2y

One of ours uses that too, lol

key@lemmy.keychat.org · 8 pts · 2y

I had trouble thinking up an original, funny name so I've just gone with "Lorem Ipsum" in the meantime

Skyline969@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 2y

Bring Beer and Women to [apartment number]

moody@lemmings.world · 7 pts · 2y

I've been banging your wifi

ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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.

jawsua@lemmy.one · 2 pts · 2y

To be paired with "imnotgivingyouthepassword" to log in

Canopyflyer@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

ITHertzwhenIP

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y

8hz&IP

fr_mg@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

"Get your own stuff sucker"

Sir_Fridge@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

For the Dutch people here: Michiel de Router

calypsopub@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (2 replies)

FBI Surveillance Van

Briguy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I've seen that used at a local burrito shop near me

RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Are you sure you aren't being followed?

Drunemeton@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

We moved into a very posh neighborhood and when hooking up our kit there was one that read, “Money cannot buy you class”.

art@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

My phone hotspot is "Cease The Investigation!".

Ankorite@lemmings.world · 6 pts · 2y

Go! Go! Gadget internet!

noodlyappendages@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

For any fans of the Venture Bros mine is "the guild of calamitous internet"

raoulSWEduke@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

Skynet. (It has been for years and finally it got relevant again.)

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y

My neighbor's is The_Booty_Warrior.

Sendbeer@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y

It's dated but it still makes me chuckle so I leave it. Mines called Series of Tubes.

selinson@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 2y

My last one was named Super Mario LAN :)

bw1faeh0@feddit.de · 6 pts · 2y

I have a stream

WolfhoundRO@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I got a "No Wi-Fi for you!" near me

YoorWeb@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

One day someone will break in, remove the pass and change SSID to "WiFi for all!".

OhFudgeBars@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

I thought I was so creative...

netwren@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

Lovense Turbo Max

therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 2y

FBI Surveillance Van

starman@programming.dev · 6 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Obi WLAN Kenobi

Ltcpanic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

How is this not ObiWAN Kenobi

starman@programming.dev · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I don't know, maybe because WiFi isn't WAN?

Skeptomatic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

LAN SOLO

alessergod@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Underworld Connections

No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Sibling connection of friends is low places

StupydHors@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

The password for my wifi is "alluppercase". I also used to have "IDontKnow" and "DontAskMe". Its fun when new people visit.

MajorHavoc@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

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.

mrfriki@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Error_404 here.

suckmyspez@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Internet Explorer

skybreaker@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Ours is "Eternal Flame Crematorium". No specific reason, we just like the sound of it

Usernameblankface@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Sounds like a band name

Hello_there@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y (6 replies)

FBIWiretap

kool_newt@lemm.ee · 15 pts · 2y (1 reply)
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Flying_Hellfish@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

This is actually one of my SSIDs. FlowersByIrene

FarFarAway@startrek.website · 7 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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.

Floufym@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

We called ours FBIWatchingVan, when I was living with left-activists.

FarFarAway@startrek.website · 4 pts · 2y

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. .

eran_morad@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
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Zatore@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y

my coworker asked to borrow a router for troubleshooting. I changed the SSID before giving it to him to: "2 inches and loving it"

Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

My last 2 routers were:

Router?ihardlyknewher

And

Router66

ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

HzWANIP is probably the funniest thing I ever did

ChickenZenphyre@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

StuckStepCisco

CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y

Bird Up! WiFi Down!

Thcdenton@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

"I can hear you having sex"

Aleric@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
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Zier@fedia.io · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Not mine, but saw "ClickHere4BBC".

CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

They just really like the British Broadcasting Corporation!

Zier@fedia.io · 1 pts · 2y

Bloody right mate!

Overlock@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2y
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MelBrooks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Barbara

pdxfed@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Neighbors have Kenny and Kenny-5G, another has PrettyFlyforAWiFi.

FraidyBear@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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.

ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 2y

Umm... something something Ravenclaw joke.

janus2@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 2y

my go-to is "net-twerk"

Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Mines Chocolate Starfish

Kelsenellenelvial@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Mine guest network is Free Public WiFi. Only one person at my place has gotten the joke so far.

some_designer_dude@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y (4 replies)

What exactly is the joke? 🤔

planish@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y (3 replies)
Wogi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Ok what's the joke in 50 words or fewer?

swordsmanluke@programming.dev · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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.

Wogi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

It followed the spirit of the request gracefully, I appreciate you

Theone@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

ThirdGuyonerouter was the funniest I see in my town.

TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

TellMyWiFiLoveHer

Resol@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

My own.

ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 2y
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