Ask Lemmy

Element of surprise. It does, in fact, have Internet

Mine is Silence of the LANs

I had one once "FBI Surveillance Van 7" and the neighbors renamed to "CIA Underground Bunker" and "International War Criminal"

PRÓBA 5G GDAŃSK 621% MOCY

which means

5G TEST GDAŃSK 621% POWER

The only network I can see is my own. But as soon as the bears get wifi we'll engage in some goofy hilariousness!

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

I used to have 'FBI Van 21' back in the 2010s but haven't really cared in recent years

Obi W-Lan Kenobi is mine

I once had a wifi that had as many character as as I could fit from this sequence of long digits that Data reads out as Picard but I goofed. Someone else changed their wifi to "The 3 is supposed to be a C"

My wifi name has been "Not yours" for 12 years

Yeah, there are always some. I use a "hidden" network and don't broadcast my SSID so I keep it simple and easy to enter in on any device. Had a neighbor in the past who was nice enough and I let him use my wifi but then I turned into his tech support, fuck that. If the neighbors don't see my broadcasting they won't ask. Besides I keep as much as I can hardwired, it's just better.

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"?

I thought "eduroam" was a pretty funny name

Just a note since google maps your SSID: To opt out, change the SSID (name) of your Wi-Fi access point (your wireless network name) so that it ends with "_nomap." For example, if your SSID is "12345," you would change it to "12345_nomap."

And probably not a good idea to publish your SSID if you don't want your location known because of things like this https://wigle.net/

I have a boring Wifi name and everyone around too, but this reminds me that I was once sitting on the train and was watching a video with bluetooth headphones in and texting with my friends and some jerk constantly tried to connect to my phone via bluetooth. A pop up window constantly asked me if I wanted to connect to this other guy's phone and since I was texting I came close to misclicking on 'yes' more than once. Then I renamed my phone to FuckOff and he got the message, since then all my phones are called FuckOff.

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

I know a guy in college whose dorm ended up with a wifi naming theme. Someone (highly suspected to be the passive aggressive super religious fundie on the floor above) changed their wifi name to "Stop, we can all hear you having sex"

So naturally, someone changed theirs to 'I can hear you NOT having sex'

at that point it was on lol.

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

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

Neighbors at my old apartment had KKK as their network name. They were huge pieces of shit who knew I could hear everything through the walls, so they would have entire conversations about me with slurs every other word. They were also armed, and talked about their guns constantly (again, knowing I could hear everything). Imagine laying in bed at 3am trying to get some sleep before a 7am meeting, and having to listen to two racist assholes literally yell through the walls just to harass me and make sure I couldn’t fall asleep.

Living there was so stressful.

My SO's wifi is called "Connection not possible"

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"