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My WiFi is ‘Secret Rebel Base’.

My neighbours have added ‘Jabba the Hub’, ‘Obi Lan Kenobi’, and ‘Red WiFi-ve Standing By’. This makes me happy.

Anyone else live in a neighbourhood that embraces this kind of WiFi silliness?

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[–] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 130 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Sadly in my apartment complex they seem to all use the default name given by the router (like Carrier-randomnumbers).

I have a friend who named his WiFi "Connecting..." which is diabolical

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 68 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Mine is "network unavailable".

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ours is “Unsecured WiFi”

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[–] CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 97 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

My network is named "Hot Signals In Your Area". It used to be "Routers of the Lost Ark". My guest network is "Guesty McGuestface"

Unfortunately, no one else in my building has anything creative.

I've seen "Leader Desslock", "NSA_Hotspot", "Wicked Evil Jowls". In college someone in my dorm named their's "Business Isn't a Real Major"

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"FBI Surveillance Van" was my favorite local.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I should throw up a new "Antifa Countersurveillance Stationwagon" ssid

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[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My neighbour's was Gaypeopleshouldbeshot. I moved out as soon as I could.

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[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 70 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Opening up wifi list at every DefCon I've been to:

"Never gonna give you up"

"Never gonna say goodbye "

"Never gonna run around "

"And desert you"

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 56 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I cannot believe just how absurdly long that has endured - it's almost literally been an eternity in Internet time.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I think it helps that it's genuinely a really catchy, uplifting, fucking excellent song, with a fun music video, and the artist really seems like an incredibly wholesome sweetheart.

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[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Somehow I missed out on that entirely - I only learned of it relatively recently. Probably because I've never been into memes all that much.

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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 65 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

All my neighbors are lame but I have two routers, giving me a total of six SSIDs to play with. So I have wifi names like "Trump Fucks Kids", "Charlie Kirk was a Literal Nazi", and "Where are the Epstein Files"?

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Forgot to mention that I live in a red state too.

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[–] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 64 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)
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[–] meekah@lemmy.world 61 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I joined my neighbor. Her WiFi is called "gothcave", so I named mine "nerdcave"

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 63 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So you... *ahem* ...caved in, then?

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago
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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 51 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

RCMP Surveillance Moose #1812 here

[–] kaidenshi@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

A møøse once bit my sister

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[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 42 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Neighbors at my old apartment had KKK as their network name. They were huge pieces of shit who knew I could hear everything through the walls, so they would have entire conversations about me with slurs every other word. They were also armed, and talked about their guns constantly (again, knowing I could hear everything). Imagine laying in bed at 3am trying to get some sleep before a 7am meeting, and having to listen to two racist assholes literally yell through the walls just to harass me and make sure I couldn’t fall asleep.

Living there was so stressful.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 19 points 2 weeks ago

What the fuck is wrong with people.

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[–] bfg9k@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago

Since OpenWRT supports special characters in wifi names, mine is (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

It fucks with older wifi chips but most modern stuff connects just fine

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mine is "Untrusted Network"

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[–] jaycifer@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago

It’s not super creative but I named my mom’s network “The Internet” so when she asks for help with getting online I can ask if she’s tried connecting to The Internet.

[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I know a guy in college whose dorm ended up with a wifi naming theme. Someone (highly suspected to be the passive aggressive super religious fundie on the floor above) changed their wifi name to "Stop, we can all hear you having sex"

So naturally, someone changed theirs to 'I can hear you NOT having sex'

at that point it was on lol.

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Be safe guys. Because of SSID location mapping services it's possible to pinpoint the location of many people in this thread.

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I haven’t seen collaboration like that but some good ones I’ve seen are ‘we can hear you having sex’ and ‘the gang gets WiFi’

[–] blave@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

Mine has been “WiFi Art Thou Romeo?” for 20+ years

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Just a note since google maps your SSID: To opt out, change the SSID (name) of your Wi-Fi access point (your wireless network name) so that it ends with "_nomap." For example, if your SSID is "12345," you would change it to "12345_nomap."

And probably not a good idea to publish your SSID if you don't want your location known because of things like this https://wigle.net/

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[–] Elshender@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

My phone hotspot is "Starbucks Free Wi-Fi" passworded of course.

My home is "Router? I hardly know her!"

A great password to use is "thepasswordtowhat".

Friend: Hey whats your wifi password?

Me: thepasswordtowhat

Friend: Your wifi

Me: What about it?

Friend: WHATS THE PASSWORD?

Me: thepasswordtowhat

Friend: Frustrated noises.

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[–] dumbass@aussie.zone 25 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Years ago my local firefighters were setting up a wifi setup that went across the town for them to use, so we named our wifi after theirs, about a week later we get a knock on the door asking us to change it because the firefighters around me couldn't connect to their network.

Not sure how they found out it was us, I think someone ratted us out.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 29 points 2 weeks ago

Not really all that hard to track down simply using signal strength measurements.

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[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I went with it_hertz_when_IP but have yet to see anyone with similar naming...

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[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 24 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty much everyone around here uses the default name. So its a bunch of "ARRRIS_xxxx", "Netgear_xxxx", and the occasional "LASTNAME".

Nothing fun aside from us unfortunately.

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 weeks ago

Ive seen "FBI Surveillance Van" a few times.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No community in jokes, but mine used to be "MailOrderWifi" and I had a neighbor who's wifi name was "OnlyGaysStealWifi" with no password

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[–] iii@mander.xyz 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I called mine "Gay Lover Paradise" and just get angry looks lol

[–] morriscox@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Not Spying On You

Covert NSA Surveillance

I Got Hacked

Connect to AOL

Skynet Mobile Operations

We Didn't Start the Firewall

[–] IDew@feddit.nl 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

One of my neighbours has a pretty clever one. Michiel de Ruiter is a common Dutch name, so they made it 'Michiel de Router'

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[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 21 points 2 weeks ago

One of my friend's neighbors named their wifi "is this the Krusty Krab?"

Of course he named his, "no, this is Patrick"

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

No but ive seen one called "hot signals in your area" in zurich airport which gave me a chuckle

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

NSA_Van_#

Not NSA Van

[–] L7HM77@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Lived in an apartment complex a while back. Found an SSID while setting up my network, Ebony3HoleEnjoyer. Never found out who dunnit.

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[–] Gnugit@aussie.zone 19 points 2 weeks ago

I named mine to reflect the local police force and my neighbours kind of went quiet.

[–] Zyrinth@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sadly no, but mine is named: My Wi-Fi Left Me

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[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I had a bunch of Trek Nerds living near me it seems:

Enterprise-D

Borg Cube

Deep Space Nine

Federation Satelite or something

It was wild

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