Ask Lemmy

My 5gHz is “Hot Signals in Your Area.” My 2.4gHz is “Mediocre Signals in Your Area.”

It hurts when IP

It confuses the hell out of Macs and some Linux stuff refuses to connect.

Saw a 5Ghz one called “COVID Vaccine”

Mines been named “WiFiArtThouRomeo” for, like, 20 years. Don’t know if it’s funny, but I think it’s cute. 

Mine is named Connecting... My guest network is Reconnecting...

Our neighbors grow weed, so my brother set one up as DEA Surveillance Van.

ItHertzWhenIP

Martin Router King Jr

Router I hardly know 'er

5G Covid Test Tower 37692b

Had one named "FBI Surveillance Van #3". I know, not so creative even 10-years ago, but read on.

Guy at the end of the street sold weed. He was telling my neighbor to be on the lookout, there was an FBI van cruising around. Being at the end of the street, my signal faded in and out like it was moving. Dude was freaked the fuck out.

Lord of the Pings

Visited a CeX store.

Their locked, employee-only Wi-Fi: Protected CeX

Their open public WiFi: Unprotected CeX

RCMP SURVEILLANCE MOOSE #2091

Mine is 'the LAN before time'

Mine is "GetOffMyLAN". Then one of my neighbors changed theirs to "GetOffMyLan69". I'm not even mad.

From Auntie Donna's Big 'ol House of Fun, "pretty fly for a WiFi"

Hide your kids, hide your wi-fi.

I went with "Encrypted for Your Pleasure".

For a while I used “Loading…”

TellMyWifiLoveHer

One of my older ones was "WeDontHaveWifi" because people would say "what's your wifi?" and we would tell them that and sometimes they would say "ohh, ok" and not ask for the password, haha. Password, incidentally, was "whatPassword?"

I once saw one in my apartment building called “f-u-Mike” and I’ve always wondered which Mike in the building the owner was mad at and why

The geology dorm at my university had one called "geology rocks", always made me chuckle.

WutangLAN

I work for an ISP. I got you fam.

• FBI VAN, FBI Surveillance Van, etc...
• Pretty Fly For A Wi-Fi
• Hidden Network
• Get Your Own
• No Internet Access
• Net Schwifty
• ITwimdy
• Yell Fuck For Password
• IP Freely
• My WiFi Left Me
• SS IDmedes
• Deez Nutzwork

I can't think of more right now, but I see many every work week.

"CovidVaccineActivation5G"

2 girls 1 router

My sister had me name the wi-fi extender as "Papa John's Pizza and Abortions". My mother's side of the family is Catholic. We're still waiting for one of them to notice it

NotaHoneyPot

On an unsecured, password free hotspot.

███████ Scratch off for password

"All my neighbours are cunts"

Mine is Trogdor.

I should make the password consummate v's.

I once saw "Mom, use this one" and I giggled.

Panic at the Cisco is up there for me.

I use "Router? I hardly know her!" for my 5Ghz, "Tell Your Wifi Say Hi!" for my 2.4Ghz

I've been using Ermagherd Hertspert for years. Still makes me chuckle once in a while.

Been using WuTangLan for quite awhile. When I started splitting 5ghz and 2.4, we added MyWiFiFu.

Heads up that there are ways to look up locations for access point ESSIDs. You can basically narrow it down to an address. If you share a neighbor's ESSID also, it greatly helps ensure that they have the right address.

"404 Network Unavailable" and "FBI Surveillance Van #273"

"SECURE YOUR NETWORK DIPASS"

This was back in the days when routers defaulted to no encryption with a stock password for the UI. Also I was the one who changed random people's SSID to that when I found an unsecured network.