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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"?

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

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

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.

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/

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

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.

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

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 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"

I thought "eduroam" was a pretty funny name

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

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

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

Ive seen "FBI Surveillance Van" a few times.

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.

Wu Tang LAN

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.

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

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

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

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

My girlfriend’s neighbors have “yer a wifi Harry” and “Harry you are a wizard” or something to make fun of the first one.

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.

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

I used to have 'FBI Van 21' back in the 2010s but haven't really cared in recent years

“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.

Mine is BillWitheScienceFi

My favorite is PrettyFlyForAWiFi

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

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