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?

  • thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    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

  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

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

  • Psythik@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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”?

  • nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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”

  • gamenac@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • Dew@feddit.nl
    1·
    3 months ago

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

  • 315am@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 months ago

    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

  • paequ2@lemmy.today
    1·
    3 months ago

    One of my friend’s neighbors named their wifi “is this the Krusty Krab?”

    Of course he named his, “no, this is Patrick”

  • CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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”

    • Matty_r@programming.dev
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      3 months ago

      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.