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
    2·
    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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • bfg9k@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 months ago

    Since OpenWRT supports special characters in wifi names, mine is (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

    It fucks with older wifi chips but most modern stuff connects just fine

  • 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.

    • Matty_r@programming.dev
      1·
      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.

  • Naz@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    3 months ago

    I had a bunch of Trek Nerds living near me it seems:

    Enterprise-D

    Borg Cube

    Deep Space Nine

    Federation Satelite or something

    It was wild

  • morriscox@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 months ago

    Not Spying On You

    Covert NSA Surveillance

    I Got Hacked

    Connect to AOL

    Skynet Mobile Operations

    We Didn’t Start the Firewall

  • CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world
    1·
    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”