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My Wi-Fi is named “Tell My Wi-Fi Love Her”

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Named my router FBI Surveillance Van #3 back in 2015 or so. Thought nothing of it.

Next door neighbor told me the weed dealer at the end of the block was losing his mind, asking if neighbor had seen the van on his wi-fi! Best part, the weed man was just far enough away for the signal to fade in and out, like a roving vehicle. No one ever told him. 😆

EDIT: Long as I'm doing dumb tech stories...

Printed one of those "voice activated printer" signs for the company printer. Figured someone would have a giggle. Walking by, I caught my co-worker yelling, "PRINT! PRINT! Damn you! PRINT!" and giving the printer the evil eye. She was not amused. At all.

My 5GHz: Hot Signals In Your Area

My 2.4GHz: Mediocre Signals In Your Area

troyandabedinthemodem

Mine is "We don't have WiFi", so when guests ask what ours is called, I tell them then get to watch their face go through five different stages as they look around at all my tech...

Then my wife gets to explain to people what the joke is while I giggle like a 5 year old being tickled.

Mine is named "Searching..."

It's caught a few friends out

My best friend named his "Bill Wi The Science Fi"

A friend used to have ItHurtsWhenIP

Seen crazy brilliant shit at DefCon trying to remember..,

• Rick Astley lyrics on like 6 different APs : Never_gonna_giveyouup / neverGonnaRunAround / etc
• Remote-Detonator
• FBIvan
• FreeOktaTokens

FBI Surveillance Van used to be nearby. Not around anymore.

Got a singleconnect close.

Mine is "The LAN Before Time"

That's what she SSID

My sister had me set the name for the Wi-Fi extender as "Papa John's Pizza and Abortions." For the record, my mother's side of the family are mostly hardcore Catholics.

(I think I mentioned this once before on a similar thread.)

Pretty Fly For A WiFi

Cat emojus

It's fun learning which firmware breaks when trying to deal with it

No Place Like 127.0.0.1

IPintheshower

Every neighborhood has a FBI Surveillance Van and a Pretty Fly For A WiFi, just like every marina has a boat named Seas The Day and Wet Dream

My sister's network is named:

Ce n'est pas un réseau

Dobby is a TERF - right next to the Harry Potter gift shop in Edinburgh

OnlyLANs

ICanHearYouHavingSex was in a friend’s building

Buddy had one of those barely FCC compliant wifi "debugger" boards, so for a while we actually had an entire armada of FBI surveillance vehicles, vans, and a helicopter on every 2.4ghz channel lol.

I dont know if fake SSID advertisements really impede actual stations, but it was pretty funny seeing 15 SSIDs coming from a single, almost thumbstick size board.

I've carried over Silence of The LANs to multiple routers for so many years now. An old favourite.

Mine is "Get Off my LAN!".

Bill Wi the Science Fi

Wu Tang LAN

Pretty Fly for a Wifi

Uncle Touchy's Puzzle Basement

Samsung Smart Vibrator

This LAN Is My LAN_5G

This LAN Is Your LAN_2.4G

Somewhere in my vicinity is "Wu Tang Lan" And mine is called "mum look I got internet"

My neighbor's is "a series of tubes"

I used to live near someone who had "Mum use this one", so in OpenWRT I set up several networks with the names:

"Mum use THIS one!" "Mum Use This One" "MUM USE THIS ONE" "Mum use this one (real)" etc, etc

The usual ones being House Lanister and Martin Router King.

I enjoy when ever I see a "Wu Tang lan"

In college I always named my router Skynet.

it hurts when IP

Obi Wlan Kenobi

Milutin Miwlanković

Mine is Bathroom Camera #4

I live in a barrio and not sure how many people in my building can either speak or read English

Ours has been "hide yo kids hide yo wifi" for about 15 years probably.

One of mine is:

ITHertzWhenIP

I knew someone who used Unicode glyphs to name their wifi the following string: ┓┏ 凵 =╱⊿┌┬┐

It was a reference to a Doctor Who episode in which people were getting zapped by the monster of the week after connecting to a mysterious alien wifi network.