Great story inbound!

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.

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.

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

Mine is named "Searching..."

It's caught a few friends out

A friend used to have ItHurtsWhenIP

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

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

I read one where the wifi password at a bar was "YouGottaBuyADrinkFirst." So... customers would ask for the password, then buy a drink, then ask for the password again and be like "oh... you crafty bastard."

That's what she SSID

Mine is "The LAN Before Time"

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.)

Wi-fi is a wireless connection, hence the "wi" part, but sending wireless signals is not new - smoke signals are another option, so my network is the full name: Wireless fireless.

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

OnlyLANs

My sister's network is named:

Ce n'est pas un réseau

My 5GHz: Hot Signals In Your Area

My 2.4GHz: Mediocre Signals In Your Area

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.

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

Mine is "Get Off my LAN!".

My neighbor's is "a series of tubes"

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

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

Got a singleconnect close.

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

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

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

In college I always named my router Skynet.

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

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.

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

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

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. 😅

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".

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

• Beer&Sausage
• LukeIamYourWifi
• Networking925
• TheLanBeforeTime
• WeCanHearYouInBed
• YourHeadBoardsLoose
• TellYourWiFiSaidHello

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

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

This LAN is my LAN

This LAN is your LAN (guest Wifi)

"Evil Lair"

"Invisible Wire"

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

I named mine: MomclickhereforInternet

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

Pretty_Fly_4_a_WiFi

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

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

NSA Surveillance Vehicle #2