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[email protected] kindly commented that wifi network names of you and your neighbour can be used to locate your address, so please be aware to avoid betraying your privacy. Peace!

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[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My 5gHz is “Hot Signals in Your Area.” My 2.4gHz is “Mediocre Signals in Your Area.”

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But technically the signal strength of 2.4 goes farther than 5, so this one hurts my brain. Perhaps because when I think mediocre signals... I think mediocre signal strength. 🤷🏽‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Speed over strength. It doesn’t need to go further, just faster.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Oh, behave.

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Hahaha regional dialect!

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This is my main Network name.

It confuses the hell out of Macs and some Linux stuff refuses to connect.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I had Zoidberg "(\/)(,;;,)(\/)" for awhile. And, yeah, not all devices liked that.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Saw a 5Ghz one called “COVID Vaccine”

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago

Mines been named “WiFiArtThouRomeo” for, like, 20 years. Don’t know if it’s funny, but I think it’s cute. 

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Our neighbors grow weed, so my brother set one up as DEA Surveillance Van.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mine is named Connecting... My guest network is Reconnecting...

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Had one named "FBI Surveillance Van #3". I know, not so creative even 10-years ago, but read on.

Guy at the end of the street sold weed. He was telling my neighbor to be on the lookout, there was an FBI van cruising around. Being at the end of the street, my signal faded in and out like it was moving. Dude was freaked the fuck out.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Martin Router King Jr

Router I hardly know 'er

5G Covid Test Tower 37692b

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Visited a CeX store.

Their locked, employee-only Wi-Fi: Protected CeX

Their open public WiFi: Unprotected CeX

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

RCMP SURVEILLANCE MOOSE #2091

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mine is 'the LAN before time'

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I set my dads as LAN Down Under

[–] artofcode 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mine is "GetOffMyLAN". Then one of my neighbors changed theirs to "GetOffMyLan69". I'm not even mad.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

Hide your kids, hide your wi-fi.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (5 children)

From Auntie Donna's Big 'ol House of Fun, "pretty fly for a WiFi"

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Lol! Lookie what I just found:

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

I went with "Encrypted for Your Pleasure".

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For a while I used “Loading…”

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

TellMyWifiLoveHer

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of my older ones was "WeDontHaveWifi" because people would say "what's your wifi?" and we would tell them that and sometimes they would say "ohh, ok" and not ask for the password, haha. Password, incidentally, was "whatPassword?"

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I once saw one in my apartment building called “f-u-Mike” and I’ve always wondered which Mike in the building the owner was mad at and why

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The geology dorm at my university had one called "geology rocks", always made me chuckle.

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[–] baascus 36 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I work for an ISP. I got you fam.

  • FBI VAN, FBI Surveillance Van, etc...
  • Pretty Fly For A Wi-Fi
  • Hidden Network
  • Get Your Own
  • No Internet Access
  • Net Schwifty
  • ITwimdy
  • Yell Fuck For Password
  • IP Freely
  • My WiFi Left Me
  • SS IDmedes
  • Deez Nutzwork

I can't think of more right now, but I see many every work week.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

"CovidVaccineActivation5G"

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

My sister had me name the wi-fi extender as "Papa John's Pizza and Abortions". My mother's side of the family is Catholic. We're still waiting for one of them to notice it

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

NotaHoneyPot

On an unsecured, password free hotspot.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

███████ Scratch off for password

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

"All my neighbours are cunts"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Mine is Trogdor.

I should make the password consummate v's.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I once saw "Mom, use this one" and I giggled.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Panic at the Cisco is up there for me.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

ThouShaltNotCovetThyNeighborsWiFi

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use "Router? I hardly know her!" for my 5Ghz, "Tell Your Wifi Say Hi!" for my 2.4Ghz

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[–] hypnotic_nerd 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"404 Network Unavailable" and "FBI Surveillance Van #273"

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Heads up that there are ways to look up locations for access point ESSIDs. You can basically narrow it down to an address. If you share a neighbor's ESSID also, it greatly helps ensure that they have the right address.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

I've been using Ermagherd Hertspert for years. Still makes me chuckle once in a while.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Been using WuTangLan for quite awhile. When I started splitting 5ghz and 2.4, we added MyWiFiFu.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

"SECURE YOUR NETWORK DIPASS"

This was back in the days when routers defaulted to no encryption with a stock password for the UI. Also I was the one who changed random people's SSID to that when I found an unsecured network.

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