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Ah the humble service set identifier! It seems to have grown from a simple way for access points to identify themselves to potential clients to a little public bulletin board for airing one's grievances toward noisy neighbors or showcasing one's wit.

What notable SSIDs have you run into out in the wild or created yourself?

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[-] ZeroGravitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 hours ago

Look Ma No Wires

[-] FlyingSpaceCow@lemmy.ca 8 points 13 hours ago

This LAN is my LAN

This LAN is your LAN (guest Wifi)

[-] spacesatan@leminal.space 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

When I did van life for a while my hotspot was FBI Surveilled Van.

Albuquerque has a major street named Juan Tabo and every time I drove past I wondered who that was, after a dozen times I finally remembered to look it up when I got home and found out that it was just some non-noteworthy guy lost to time. Network became 'discount Juan Tabo lookalike'

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Saw a similar net here: "FBI Surveillance Van". Fun fact: this is not in the US.

[-] tronx4002@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

Router?IHardlyKnowHer!

[-] ClusterBomb 11 points 20 hours ago

Once, in vacation, I found a WiFi named "Bob Marley". I don't know anything about Bob Marley, I hate reggae so I'm not interested but I know "No woman no cry" because we learned it at school. So here I was typing "nowomannocry" as password and guess what, I was logged in. 😂

So it is not the SSID in itself which was fun but I figured it was not too unrelated to your question. 😅

[-] Meeshall65@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Reboot tot connect

[-] Ontimp@feddit.org 8 points 19 hours ago

My phone WiFi hotspot is called JabbaTheHub

[-] lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago

My phone wifi hotspot is Kaer Morhen. Not a clever pun at all, but it makes me happy.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

My home wifi is "Terok Nor", and my mobile hotspot is "runabout".

[-] thanatotus@lemmy.ml 5 points 17 hours ago
[-] snuffelbug@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

It's a Deep Space Nine reference

[-] JGrffn@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago

For the longest time I had "FBI Van" and "NSA Van" for my 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands respectively. 0 cool stories with that scheme, until I changed the 5ghz one to "Ganon's Tower" and a neighbor eventually joined me and named his wifi "Hyrule Castle". We kept that for a few years until the neighbor moved, I believe

[-] Wynnded@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago

Mine is YourKidsAreBrats for the loud screechy neighborhood kids next door.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 46 points 1 day ago

Mine is "We don't have WiFi", so when guests ask what ours is called, I tell them then get to watch their face go through five different stages as they look around at all my tech...

Then my wife gets to explain to people what the joke is while I giggle like a 5 year old being tickled.

And the password is: "TheCodeisontheBackoftheRouter1"

[-] bathroomconnoisseur@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

I've encountered the password "itsonthefridge"

[-] spamspeicher@feddit.org 2 points 20 hours ago

LONGPASSWORDALLCAPS

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[-] untorquer@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

I always feel sketch at the international airport connecting to "Airport WiFi" network...

My hotspot is BigFatDonkeyDick.

[-] mrunicornman@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Is this a reference to that court case transcript?

[-] untorquer@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

No i made this up before that I think... I'm just sipremely and eternally 12 years old in my humor.

[-] gwl 24 points 1 day ago

Dobby is a TERF - right next to the Harry Potter gift shop in Edinburgh

[-] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago
[-] gwl 22 points 1 day ago

Congratulations on being one of today's lucky 10,000

TERF - Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist

A name that some bigots have given themselves to appear presentable, because they're saying they're "protecting women" from a minority group that makes up less than 1% of the population (Trans People.) They're basically a bigoted hate group, and/or a cult.

JK Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, famously is one of them, and funnels a lot of her money into that hate group. Dobby is one of her characters.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Setting up a guest network for hub's basement brewery.

We are australian. His initials are JB.

JB Wifi

[-] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
  • Beer&Sausage
  • LukeIamYourWifi
  • Networking925
  • TheLanBeforeTime
  • WeCanHearYouInBed
  • YourHeadBoardsLoose
  • TellYourWiFiSaidHello
[-] toad@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

“99 problems, but wi-fi ain’t one” is mine currently.

[-] kitten_mittenz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago

Ours has been "hide yo kids hide yo wifi" for about 15 years probably.

[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

I knew someone who used Unicode glyphs to name their wifi the following string: ┓┏ 凵 =╱⊿┌┬┐

It was a reference to a Doctor Who episode in which people were getting zapped by the monster of the week after connecting to a mysterious alien wifi network.

[-] invertedspear@lemmy.zip 3 points 17 hours ago

I did that for my mobile hotspot. No one got it :(

my two favorites are: DropItLikeItsHotSpot YouCantTakeWiFiFromMe

I named mine: MomclickhereforInternet

[-] shadshack@feddit.online 11 points 1 day ago

I use Abraham Linksys, even now that I've moved on from Linksys routers (mostly too lazy to update all my IoT devices).

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 20 points 1 day ago

I used to live near someone who had "Mum use this one", so in OpenWRT I set up several networks with the names:

"Mum use THIS one!" "Mum Use This One" "MUM USE THIS ONE" "Mum use this one (real)" etc, etc

[-] MonsterTrick@piefed.world 9 points 1 day ago

At one of the CeX I go to, the WiFi is called something like "SafeCeX"

[-] chillpanzee@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 day ago

I read one where the wifi password at a bar was "YouGottaBuyADrinkFirst." So... customers would ask for the password, then buy a drink, then ask for the password again and be like "oh... you crafty bastard."

[-] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago

Mine is Bathroom Camera #4

I live in a barrio and not sure how many people in my building can either speak or read English

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[-] grandmasterfluffles@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've carried over Silence of The LANs to multiple routers for so many years now. An old favourite.

[-] towerful@programming.dev 43 points 1 day ago

Mine is named "Searching..."

It's caught a few friends out

[-] irkenInvader@lemmy.world 85 points 1 day ago

My Wi-Fi is named “Tell My Wi-Fi Love Her”

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[-] CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My 5GHz: Hot Signals In Your Area

My 2.4GHz: Mediocre Signals In Your Area

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