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

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"

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"

Mine is: ITHertzWhenIP

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"?

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

RCMP Surveillance Moose #1812 here

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.

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

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

Mine is "Untrusted Network"

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.

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.

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

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

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

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’

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.

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.

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/

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.

Not Spying On You

Covert NSA Surveillance

I Got Hacked

Connect to AOL

Skynet Mobile Operations

We Didn't Start the Firewall

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

Ive seen "FBI Surveillance Van" a few times.

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

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

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

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

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

NSA_Van_#

Not NSA Van

Everyone should change theirs to RELEASTHEEPSTEINwifiLES!

My favorite is PrettyFlyForAWiFi

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

Mine is BillWitheScienceFi

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

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

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

• TheLanBeforeTime
• 2CatNoProblems
• WUTSTHEWIFIPASSWORD
• Networking 925
• FBISurveillancevan

“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.

Don’t answer; script kiddies can find out where you live based on these names.

I thought "eduroam" was a pretty funny name

Wu Tang LAN

Abraham Linksys

John Wilkes Bluetooth

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

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.

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.

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!"

A lot of peeps have their name or "x family" But I see "YouShallNotPass" Right now mine are "Not Connected" and "No Internet"

Mine used to be: Tenant Cam 2

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"

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.

I think I've seen "FBI Van" at an old apartment I used to live

I've joked about "fourwordsalluppercase" but my wife would murder me.

https://youtu.be/bLE7zsJk4AI

One of my faves is an over the road truck driver who named his hotspot "Abodeless".

Other than BeBlessedandMoisturized, my neighbors don’t seem too creative with their WiFi names.

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 have "The Internet" and "Honeypot"

No, but my guest wifi password is "illnevertell"

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.

I would suggest naming your 2.4 network "use channel 1 6 or 11. Google it" it fits barely

Thats actually cool. My neighbours have incredibly boring names, default names like tp-link and netgear... Zzz.

mine is: Let the FOSS be with you

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.

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'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.

I have my 2.4 network named IsThisTheKrustyKrab and my 5 network named WutangLAN.

One neighbor joined in with Winternet is Coming, the other called theirs Childish Name.

Mine is ‘HoloNet’, but it’s kind of a deep cut unless you’re really into Star Wars.

My SO's wifi is called "Connection not possible"

My son's is KittyPorn.

I've been using "Riri Wifi et Loulou" for more than a decade. It's a pun on the french names of Huey, Dewey and Louie (it's supposed to be Riri Fifi et Loulou).

For over a decade, mine was "Pretty Fly For A Wifi".

Router? I hardly know her!

I'm Tie WiFighter, but nobody's joined in in my neighborhood

Element of surprise. It does, in fact, have Internet

"shout 'penis' for password"

For a while I had House LANister and a few neighbors joined with GoT names. We all changed to more standard names after the disappointing finale

Now I have "this is the ATT router" that I changed the name to do some debugging (I wasn't sure which one was my own router since I run it as a bridge) and recently another neighbor changed theirs to "and my xFinity"

Next door used to use “Kevin’s Porn”. We’re still “Porn For Kevin” lol

Hide ya kids hide ya wifi

Was on a train to London once and spotted a wifi called ‘I shaved your mum’. I still chuckle about it now.

The only network I can see is my own. But as soon as the bears get wifi we'll engage in some goofy hilariousness!

One of my neighbors has The_Booty_Warrior. Another's is FBI_Surveillance_Van_273

Pretty Fly for a WiFi

Pretty Fly for a Wi5

I wish. My WiFi is ZeroGravitas, a ship name from the Culture novels; the only other named WiFi in my vicinity is Routered in Faith. :-(

nope. most don't change it. I actually just looked and I did change mine but sometimes I blow it off.

Mine is NOTtheNSAvan, and I see in the list of active WiFi networks is one called fbivan

police issued taser was great to find

i found this on my cities subreddit yesterday

https://www.reddit.com/...

Years ago I had "pantomiming_suicide" and someone created one about calling the suicide hotline. It's actually a Mormon reference that I just thought would make a funny name but I can see how that wasn't obvious now.

"Looking for a wifi" was mine college.

My wifi name has been "Not yours" for 12 years

One of our neighbours has his set to "SAPS Surveillance Van" - "SAPS", South African Police Services.

Ours is named after my son's YouTube channel.. free advertising!

Mine is Silence of the LANs

I came up with: WI FI INdER NET ROOTE eRWÄLAN While I couldn't sleep on night. It only makes sense in German. I don't use it though cause I'm not sure if it's racist.

Unfortunately no. I think I'll try something and see if someone joins in.

PRÓBA 5G GDAŃSK 621% MOCY

which means

5G TEST GDAŃSK 621% POWER

All of my WiFi names have been taken from the game American McGee's Alice (the first one): "Pool of Tears", "Skool Daze", "Hollow Hideaway", "Mystifying Madness", etc. Sadly, all of my neighbors are computer illiterate, so they always leave the router's default name.

I had one once "FBI Surveillance Van 7" and the neighbors renamed to "CIA Underground Bunker" and "International War Criminal"

Not a common joke but pretty much every building I have lived in has people using random joke names for their wifi setup.

spybus is he direct translation

RopeBunny

I have mine set to "VIP Room" and live in an apartment building.

Obi W-Lan Kenobi is mine