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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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 129 points 1 month ago

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 1 month ago

Mine is "network unavailable".

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 month ago

Ours is “Unsecured WiFi”

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[-] CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 100 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 40 points 1 month ago

"FBI Surveillance Van" was my favorite local.

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 27 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] starlinguk@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

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

[-] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 72 points 1 month ago

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 57 points 1 month ago

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

[-] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago
[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago
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[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 18 points 1 month ago

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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[-] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 65 points 1 month ago
[-] Philote@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 month ago

Mine as well. My 2.5 is ithertzwhenIP My 5 band is BillWIthescienceFI

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[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 64 points 1 month ago

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 20 points 1 month ago
[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] meekah@lemmy.world 60 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 62 points 1 month ago

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

[-] meekah@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago
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[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 52 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

RCMP Surveillance Moose #1812 here

[-] kaidenshi@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

A møøse once bit my sister

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[-] BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 42 points 1 month ago

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 18 points 1 month ago

What the fuck is wrong with people.

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[-] bfg9k@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month 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 32 points 1 month ago

Mine is "Untrusted Network"

[-] ysjet@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

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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[-] jaycifer@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month 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.

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

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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[-] blave@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Elshender@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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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[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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’

[-] dumbass@aussie.zone 24 points 1 month ago

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 28 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 22 points 1 month 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.

[-] morriscox@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 21 points 1 month ago

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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[-] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago

Ive seen "FBI Surveillance Van" a few times.

[-] iii@mander.xyz 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] paequ2@lemmy.today 20 points 1 month ago

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

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

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 month ago

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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[-] Gnugit@aussie.zone 19 points 1 month ago

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

[-] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Philote@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago

Everyone should change theirs to RELEASTHEEPSTEINwifiLES!

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[-] Zyrinth@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

NSA_Van_#

Not NSA Van

[-] maximumbird@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Mine is BillWitheScienceFi

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