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Ah the humble service set identifier! It seems to have grown from a simple way for access points to identify themselves to potential clients to a little public bulletin board for airing one's grievances toward noisy neighbors or showcasing one's wit.

What notable SSIDs have you run into out in the wild or created yourself?

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[–] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

One of mine is:

ITHertzWhenIP

[–] trd@feddit.nu 11 points 3 months ago

Alot of networks around here, the fbi van pops up from time to time, and then 15 generic modem routers and in the middle of that list is "one of many".

[–] KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 11 points 3 months ago

Pretty Fly for a Wifi

[–] No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.org 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

When I was living in an apartment complex for students, I saw "secret batcave wlan", so I changed mine to "wayne manor guests"

[–] JGrffn@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

For the longest time I had "FBI Van" and "NSA Van" for my 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands respectively. 0 cool stories with that scheme, until I changed the 5ghz one to "Ganon's Tower" and a neighbor eventually joined me and named his wifi "Hyrule Castle". We kept that for a few years until the neighbor moved, I believe

[–] ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 months ago

Once, in vacation, I found a WiFi named "Bob Marley". I don't know anything about Bob Marley, I hate reggae so I'm not interested but I know "No woman no cry" because we learned it at school. So here I was typing "nowomannocry" as password and guess what, I was logged in. 😂

So it is not the SSID in itself which was fun but I figured it was not too unrelated to your question. 😅

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"Evil Lair"

"Invisible Wire"

[–] BzzBiotch@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

My network name used to be: DoYouKnowWhyIAmFat? Password: EverytimeIFuckYoMomSheGivesMeACookie#2024

[–] FlyingSpaceCow@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago

This LAN is my LAN

This LAN is your LAN (guest Wifi)

[–] shadshack@feddit.online 10 points 3 months ago

I use Abraham Linksys, even now that I've moved on from Linksys routers (mostly too lazy to update all my IoT devices).

[–] JackDark@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm keen on my own: NecromancerGlitterPonies

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[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
  • Beer&Sausage
  • LukeIamYourWifi
  • Networking925
  • TheLanBeforeTime
  • WeCanHearYouInBed
  • YourHeadBoardsLoose
  • TellYourWiFiSaidHello

I named mine: MomclickhereforInternet

[–] Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

My last one was 'Insert WiFi Pun Here' because I couldn't think of a good one in the spot.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 3 months ago

Pretty_Fly_4_a_WiFi

[–] MonsterTrick@piefed.world 9 points 3 months ago

At one of the CeX I go to, the WiFi is called something like "SafeCeX"

[–] Wynnded@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Mine is YourKidsAreBrats for the loud screechy neighborhood kids next door.

[–] Ontimp@feddit.org 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My phone WiFi hotspot is called JabbaTheHub

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[–] Jela@lemmy.today 8 points 3 months ago

ours is "flamingos for sale" 🦩

[–] 5oap10116@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

NSA Surveillance Vehicle #2

[–] tronx4002@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Router?IHardlyKnowHer!

[–] Today@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago
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[–] toad@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

“99 problems, but wi-fi ain’t one” is mine currently.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

One of my neighbors is The_Booty_Warrior. My hypothesis is that's the pear-shaped Army chick that lives across the street, but it might be the balding middle aged family man two doors down.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My hypothesis is that’s the pear-shaped Army chick that lives across the street, but it might be the balding middle aged family man two doors down.

If you can wander around with kismet and a GPS sensor on a laptop, you can map the location of a WAP.

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[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Mine used to be "Network Name? Why not Zoidberg?"

[–] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
  • "Come naked and bring beer"
  • "Crack Cave"
  • "$name, 2. floor, 23, single"
[–] Az_1@piefed.social 7 points 3 months ago

I've seen internet not available and drop it like it's hotspot for hotspots but not really anything for WiFi networks yet

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I always feel sketch at the international airport connecting to "Airport WiFi" network...

My hotspot is BigFatDonkeyDick.

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[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 6 points 3 months ago

My guest wifi is “OpenWiFi” and the key is “iwillnotgiveyouthepassword”

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago

I named mine "skynet"

[–] mkhopper@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

My SSID has always been "InfectedWithVirus".

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Setting up a guest network for hub's basement brewery.

We are australian. His initials are JB.

JB Wifi

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 months ago
[–] spacesatan@leminal.space 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

When I did van life for a while my hotspot was FBI Surveilled Van.

Albuquerque has a major street named Juan Tabo and every time I drove past I wondered who that was, after a dozen times I finally remembered to look it up when I got home and found out that it was just some non-noteworthy guy lost to time. Network became 'discount Juan Tabo lookalike'.

Oh yeah, at my current laundromat there are like 6 networks pretending to be the laundromat's free wifi for the sake of confusion.

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