What's the funniest WiFi network name you've seen?
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!
My 5gHz is “Hot Signals in Your Area.” My 2.4gHz is “Mediocre Signals in Your Area.”
129 0 ReplyIt hurts when IP
108 0 ReplyIt confuses the hell out of Macs and some Linux stuff refuses to connect.
98 0 ReplySaw a 5Ghz one called “COVID Vaccine”
87 0 ReplyMines been named “WiFiArtThouRomeo” for, like, 20 years. Don’t know if it’s funny, but I think it’s cute. 
77 0 ReplyOur neighbors grow weed, so my brother set one up as DEA Surveillance Van.
72 0 ReplyMine is named Connecting... My guest network is Reconnecting...
72 0 ReplyItHertzWhenIP
63 0 ReplyMartin Router King Jr
Router I hardly know 'er
5G Covid Test Tower 37692b
62 0 ReplyHad 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.
61 0 ReplyLord of the Pings
60 0 ReplyRCMP SURVEILLANCE MOOSE #2091
55 0 ReplyMine is "GetOffMyLAN". Then one of my neighbors changed theirs to "GetOffMyLan69". I'm not even mad.
51 0 ReplyFrom Auntie Donna's Big 'ol House of Fun, "pretty fly for a WiFi"
46 0 ReplyI went with "Encrypted for Your Pleasure".
43 0 ReplyHide your kids, hide your wi-fi.
43 0 ReplyFor a while I used “Loading…”
42 0 ReplyTellMyWifiLoveHer
41 0 ReplyOne 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?"
41 0 ReplyI 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
40 0 ReplyThe geology dorm at my university had one called "geology rocks", always made me chuckle.
37 0 ReplyI 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.
36 0 ReplyWutangLAN
36 0 Reply"CovidVaccineActivation5G"
34 0 Reply2 girls 1 router
32 0 ReplyNotaHoneyPot
On an unsecured, password free hotspot.
30 0 ReplyMy 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
30 0 Reply"All my neighbours are cunts"
27 0 Reply███████ Scratch off for password
27 0 ReplyMine is Trogdor.
I should make the password consummate v's.
26 0 ReplyI once saw "Mom, use this one" and I giggled.
25 0 ReplyPanic at the Cisco
is up there for me.25 0 ReplyHeads 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.
24 0 ReplyI use "Router? I hardly know her!" for my 5Ghz, "Tell Your Wifi Say Hi!" for my 2.4Ghz
24 0 Reply"404 Network Unavailable" and "FBI Surveillance Van #273"
22 0 ReplyI've been using Ermagherd Hertspert for years. Still makes me chuckle once in a while.
22 0 ReplyBeen using WuTangLan for quite awhile. When I started splitting 5ghz and 2.4, we added MyWiFiFu.
22 0 Reply"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.
21 0 ReplyOne of my favourites is from a movie!
ThePromisedLAN
20 0 ReplyMy mobile hotspot name is Win32Virus.exe
The looks when I turn it on in an airport...
20 0 ReplyFor a while mines been:
"Free Public WiFi" for my secure main network
"Secure Home Network No Touchy" as my open guest network
20 0 ReplyI've got "Little Silhouetto of a LAN" and "Caught in a LANslide" for the 5 and 2.4ghz
19 0 ReplyMy neighbours' "PrettyFlyForAWiFi"
19 0 Replyi've seen "💩" a while ago. That was pretty funny - just a little inconvenient at times I guess.
17 0 ReplyConnecting...
And yes it got me.
17 0 Reply[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.
17 0 ReplyCIA Van nr. 8 (unsecured)
16 0 ReplyI live close to a train station and mine is called: "[name of the operator]_public“ wonder how many people tried to connect😅
16 0 ReplyOurs is OohAahFhqwhgads
16 0 ReplyDavid Bowie's Nipple Antennae
15 0 ReplySet my friend’s WiFi to “Muggle Magic”
15 0 ReplyI saw "Martin Router King" and the classical "BND Überwachungsfahrzeug"(BND=German surveillance Service). Überwachungsfahrzeug means surveillance vehicle.
15 0 ReplyMy guest network was called ShareYourWifi, but my wife made me change it
14 0 Replymine is "im in your walls", going for the creepy factor
14 0 ReplyMine has been WaiFu for the last couple years.
14 0 ReplyI 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
13 0 ReplyNachoWiF(e)i
13 0 ReplyMy 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'
13 0 ReplyPretty fly for a wifi
13 0 ReplyMartin Router King, from my wireless internet exam last semester
13 0 ReplyI 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...
12 0 ReplyI lived in the hood for a while, and a neighbor's wifi was called CrackWhoreNet.
12 0 ReplyUsed "Super WAN" for my 5Ghz and "Bat WAN" for my 2.4Ghz.
12 0 ReplyFree Virus
12 0 ReplyFor a while mine was named "Get off my lawn"
11 0 ReplyNetworkError
11 0 ReplyI just changed mine to porqueFi, I thought it was clever...
11 0 ReplyMines is currently riders of roWAN
11 0 ReplyAt my old house, mine was NeverGonnaGiveYouUp. Nobody continued it for all the five years I was there, as far as I could tell :(
11 0 Reply"HP Laserjet M402DN", one of my least favorite desktop laser printers.
11 0 ReplyICanHearYouSnoringFromHere
11 0 ReplyMy 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.
10 0 ReplyMine's "Abraham Linksys"
9 0 ReplyMachoLANRandySavage
9 0 Reply"No somos los marihuanos" (We're not the stoners)
(But they were)
9 0 ReplyMy home network used to be named "Network Name? Why not Zoidberg?"
9 0 ReplyPercheFi which translates to WhyFi in Italian
9 0 ReplyI was always a fan of: ᒣᒥப߹/ΔП
9 0 ReplyCan You See Where IP
8 0 ReplyI had trouble thinking up an original, funny name so I've just gone with "Lorem Ipsum" in the meantime
8 0 ReplyI'm personally a fan of:
"New Wi-Fi Who Dis" and "Spaceballs: The Wi-Fi"
8 0 ReplyITHertzwhenIP
8 0 ReplyI've been banging your wifi
8 0 ReplyFBI Surveillance Van
8 0 ReplyBring Beer and Women to [apartment number]
7 0 ReplyFor the Dutch people here: Michiel de Router
7 0 Reply"Get your own stuff sucker"
7 0 ReplyMine'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.
7 0 ReplyMy phone hotspot is "Cease The Investigation!".
7 0 ReplyObi WLAN Kenobi
7 0 ReplyI got a "No Wi-Fi for you!" near me
6 0 ReplyLovense Turbo Max
6 0 ReplyUnderworld Connections
6 0 ReplySkynet. (It has been for years and finally it got relevant again.)
6 0 ReplyMy last one was named Super Mario LAN :)
6 0 ReplyFor any fans of the Venture Bros mine is "the guild of calamitous internet"
6 0 ReplyI have a stream
6 0 ReplyIt's dated but it still makes me chuckle so I leave it. Mines called Series of Tubes.
6 0 ReplyWe moved into a very posh neighborhood and when hooking up our kit there was one that read, “Money cannot buy you class”.
6 0 ReplyGo! Go! Gadget internet!
6 0 ReplyMy last 2 routers were:
Router?ihardlyknewher
And
Router66
6 0 ReplyError_404 here.
5 0 ReplyFBIWiretap
5 0 ReplyInternet Explorer
5 0 ReplyThe password for my wifi is "alluppercase". I also used to have "IDontKnow" and "DontAskMe". Its fun when new people visit.
5 0 Replymy coworker asked to borrow a router for troubleshooting. I changed the SSID before giving it to him to: "2 inches and loving it"
4 0 ReplyMy own.
4 0 ReplyOurs is "Eternal Flame Crematorium". No specific reason, we just like the sound of it
4 0 ReplyBarbara
3 0 ReplyMine guest network is Free Public WiFi. Only one person at my place has gotten the joke so far.
3 0 ReplyBird Up! WiFi Down!
3 0 ReplyStuckStepCisco
3 0 Reply"I can hear you having sex"
3 0 ReplyNeighbors have Kenny and Kenny-5G, another has PrettyFlyforAWiFi.
3 0 ReplyHzWANIP is probably the funniest thing I ever did
3 0 ReplyThe 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.
2 0 ReplyMines Chocolate Starfish
2 0 ReplyNot mine, but saw "ClickHere4BBC".
2 0 Replymy go-to is "net-twerk"
2 0 ReplyTellMyWiFiLoveHer
1 0 ReplyThirdGuyonerouter was the funniest I see in my town.
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