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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“The password of [neighbour’s SSID] is [embarrassing password]”
Or some such. Not sure if it was the real password, but soon after everyone was doing it to one another and it got people super confused.
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Wu Tang LAN
- TheLanBeforeTime
- 2CatNoProblems
- WUTSTHEWIFIPASSWORD
- Networking 925
- FBISurveillancevan
I thought "eduroam" was a pretty funny name
One that is popular in my country is Michiel de Router which is a play on the VOC man Michiel de Ruyter.
But yeah sometimes there's an FBI Surveillance Van or a "It's this one Mom!"
Don’t answer; script kiddies can find out where you live based on these names.
My old name was " Mai Waifu" and now it's "[my last name] mojo dojo casa house". No on else around me have funny names which makes me sad.
Always bad to name the wifi anything that can identify you. Used to be way more of a bad idea when it was easily cracked but back in the day if you pissed off the local nerd they could target you.
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A lot of peeps have their name or "x family" But I see "YouShallNotPass" Right now mine are "Not Connected" and "No Internet"
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In my last apartment I had mine set to "FBI Surveillance Van 9" and a neighbor set theirs to "Suspicious Drug Den". Before that several of us changed to variations of "Library Wifi Ext #" to pick on the Librarian next door. Outside of those, my favorite was "Need a Wifi password?" With the password set to "WhyNotZoidberg?" I had the meme printed on the fridge and everything.
On a work trip in the mid 2010s. We were staying at a hotel located near FB/Meta HQ in Menlo Park.
Once I was in for the night, I went looking for WiFi and then I saw it:
SSID HideYoKidsHideYoWiFi
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I think I've seen "FBI Van" at an old apartment I used to live
Mine was named FBI Surveillance Van #3. Neighbor was a pot dealer and was freaking out, asking another neighbor if he had seen that signal. Best part? We were far enough away that the SSID would fade in and out at his house, like it was moving.
Ours was "{town} Free Wi-Fi" when we lived in the town centre for a while, just to confuse tourists. It was more of a getting stabbed area than a fun SSID name area though.
How to DDoS yourself in one easy step.
I once had a wifi that had as many character as as I could fit from this sequence of long digits that Data reads out as Picard but I goofed. Someone else changed their wifi to "The 3 is supposed to be a C"
I just use the same standard, boring name I got with my router 10 years ago and I change it to be the same with each new router. Because I'd rather be fucked in the ass than update my 100 devices to connect to a new wifi.
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One of my faves is an over the road truck driver who named his hotspot "Abodeless".
I have a boring Wifi name and everyone around too, but this reminds me that I was once sitting on the train and was watching a video with bluetooth headphones in and texting with my friends and some jerk constantly tried to connect to my phone via bluetooth. A pop up window constantly asked me if I wanted to connect to this other guy's phone and since I was texting I came close to misclicking on 'yes' more than once. Then I renamed my phone to FuckOff and he got the message, since then all my phones are called FuckOff.
I wish to name it in a funny way. But there is a ton of devices that I have connected over the wifi and I dont have enough willpower to reconnect them all once I change the name.
No, but my guest wifi password is "illnevertell"
My work uses "No Password" as the guest password
Other than BeBlessedandMoisturized, my neighbors don’t seem too creative with their WiFi names.
soyballs though 👌
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I'm in Texas, so mine currently says "Free Porn Here". In the past it was always some snarky bullshit. My buddy's is "FBI Mobile Team" or something similar. I think he's had one about the DEA in the past.
So nothing funny or clever about Wi-Fi or networking, but definitely not normal names.
Thats actually cool. My neighbours have incredibly boring names, default names like tp-link and netgear... Zzz.
My girlfriend’s neighbors have “yer a wifi Harry” and “Harry you are a wizard” or something to make fun of the first one.
We have used the name Flexo for years if only because it makes me smile. No one else in the neighborhood is funny though.
I have "The Internet" and "Honeypot"
Yeah, there are always some. I use a "hidden" network and don't broadcast my SSID so I keep it simple and easy to enter in on any device. Had a neighbor in the past who was nice enough and I let him use my wifi but then I turned into his tech support, fuck that. If the neighbors don't see my broadcasting they won't ask. Besides I keep as much as I can hardwired, it's just better.
I would suggest naming your 2.4 network "use channel 1 6 or 11. Google it" it fits barely