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

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.

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

Abraham Linksys

John Wilkes Bluetooth

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

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

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.

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

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

“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"

Everyone should change theirs to RELEASTHEEPSTEINwifiLES!

NSA_Van_#

Not NSA Van

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

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

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

No, but my guest wifi password is "illnevertell"

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

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

https://youtu.be/bLE7zsJk4AI

"shout 'penis' for password"

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

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).

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

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

Mine is Silence of the LANs

I just use the same standard, boring name I got with my router 10 years ago and I change it to be the same with each new router. Because I'd rather be fucked in the ass than update my 100 devices to connect to a new wifi.

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!"

I have "The Internet" and "Honeypot"