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

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.

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.

My son's is KittyPorn.

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

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'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).

mine is: Let the FOSS be with you

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"

Router? I hardly know her!

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

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

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

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

Hide ya kids hide ya wifi

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

i found this on my cities subreddit yesterday

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fpe62og5lbltf1.jpeg

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

police issued taser was great to find

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. :-(