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?
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
Mine is “network unavailable”.
Ours is “Unsecured WiFi”
Three top SSIDs!
We had a bunch of “surveillance van #X” at an old apartment. I joined in.
This was before surveillance vans were a real threat though. Not as funny with all the ice shit these days.
The WiFi hotspot on my phone is called “Initializing…”
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”?
Chad
Forgot to mention that I live in a red state too.
The “All my neighbors are lame” part makes sense now.
Love it
Do you have 2.4, 5, and guest on each?
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”
“FBI Surveillance Van” was my favorite local.
I should throw up a new “Antifa Countersurveillance Stationwagon” ssid
Probably end up getting your place raided by morons.
Business Isn’t a Real Major
Diabolical, love it.
How about “Econ isn’t a science”
My neighbour’s was Gaypeopleshouldbeshot. I moved out as soon as I could.
I would’ve mine up to match but milder. “Are the Straight Ok?” and “I’ve Seen Your Hateful Straight Ass On Grindr”
Since OpenWRT supports special characters in wifi names, mine is (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
It fucks with older wifi chips but most modern stuff connects just fine
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.
On for everyone but that dude
I’m sure that was the case well before that point.
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.
Lol mine is “Why?” for the same reasons
In a similar vein: idonotremember
Who’s on first, What’s on second, I don’t know’s on third.
Gawd, how many under 30 (or even 40) even know of that routine?
Hey now, don’t underestimate it, it’s PRETTY famous. I’m 35, and I heard it as a kid.
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/
Sorry but fuck Google.
Jesus H. Christ that’s insane.
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.
I’m very sad that story didn’t have a happy ending where they were both hit by a bus or got arrested in a drug sting.
I’m glad that was your old apartment friend.
That’s when you mail yourself letters from “FBI sharpshooter association” or “Krav Maga instructors association”, and after receiving them post marked, drop them in their mailbox, as if it were postman error.
What the fuck is wrong with people.
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”
I cannot believe just how absurdly long that has endured - it’s almost literally been an eternity in Internet time.
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.
It also my Fortnite dance when I get a win. Just cause.
It’s my Octavia tune on warframe. I have had people quit matches on me for it :|
even longer than loss
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.
it’s no great loss
*groan*
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
Awesome!
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.
Abraham Linksys
John Wilkes Bluetooth
Tp-Linkin Park
I joined my neighbor. Her WiFi is called “gothcave”, so I named mine “nerdcave”
So you… *ahem* …caved in, then?
That is too cute
Don’t share all your WiFi SSIDs my dude. Its very common to be able to find someone’s likely location based on all the network names. Even Google and Apple use this technique instead of relying on GPS.
Come hang with me and Smith and Wesson!
What you’re describing is called Wardriving, I’ve done it and used it to track/confirm someone’s location
Nice to see a fellow WoT enjoyer among your neighbors.
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