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”
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”
Not Spying On You
Covert NSA Surveillance
I Got Hacked
Connect to AOL
Skynet Mobile Operations
We Didn’t Start the Firewall
mine is: Let the FOSS be with you
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.
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.
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
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.
I joined my neighbor. Her WiFi is called “gothcave”, so I named mine “nerdcave”
So you… *ahem* …caved in, then?
slow clap
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.
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”
Wu Tang LAN
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.
I have “The Internet” and “Honeypot”
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
One of my friend’s neighbors named their wifi “is this the Krusty Krab?”
Of course he named his, “no, this is Patrick”
