# Local wifi names!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-wifi-names/832576
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 15, 2019, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-wifi-names/832576 "2019-04-15T14:04:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-wifi-names/832576/1 "2019-04-15T14:04:51Z")
I live on a short block which contains a few rental properties, and not long ago a few units saw new tenants move in. Prior to this all the visible local wifi network names that showed up on my device were kinda boring and usual, nothing like you often see in internet jokes.
Suddenly the list of nearby networks lists ‘a manageable pill addiction’, a curious name for a network indeed!
I am humorously looking mildly askew at any new neighbours, just in case!😃
So have you seen any interesting names pop up on your listings?
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### Author:  [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-wifi-names/832576/2 "2019-04-15T14:32:15Z")
The neighbors on our block are close (heck, we even had a quarterly newsletter for a while). If you look at the WiFi signals available here, they look odd… then you realize some of us named our networks as a pun on others’, then someone else named theirs with a parody of those…
Does that make sense? Like, the original one was “Pete’s Yellow House”, so someone change theirs to “Petey’s Dirt-Colored House”. “Across\_The\_Street\_From\_Pete” showed up, NETGEAR37 became “NOT\_PETE”, and then came “Patty’s Puce Palace”…
And then fun was had by all.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-wifi-names/832576/3 "2019-04-15T15:05:40Z")
I named my network “NO CARRIER,” which confused the heck out of people.
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### Author:  [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-wifi-names/832576/4 "2019-04-15T15:40:43Z")
When some new people moved into a rather expensive home across the street, a new wifi name appeared in our list: “420forever”.
None of them seem to have jobs, at least they don’t leave in the mornings to drive to one. They’re quiet and mellow.
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-wifi-names/832576/5 "2019-04-15T15:46:46Z")
I can see one called “SurveillanceVan”.
Obviously it’s not really a surveillance van.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-wifi-names/832576/6 "2019-04-15T15:51:32Z")
i currently see one named GetOut, which amuses me a bit.
Mine is a particularly obscure Star Wars-related reference, which is probably only amusing to me. 🙂
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### Author:  [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-wifi-names/832576/7 "2019-04-15T15:52:29Z")
> [@davidm](#):
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> I can see one called “SurveillanceVan”.
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> Obviously it’s not really a surveillance van.
Of… Course not
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### Author:  [@bizerta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizerta)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-wifi-names/832576/8 "2019-04-15T16:20:20Z")
In my neighborhood, we have
NoahZark
AnneChovees
GetYourOwnWiFi
DobieGillis
WarrenPiece
Bob Loblaw (say it out loud)
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-wifi-names/832576/9 "2019-04-15T16:27:55Z")
I for a time had my network named Abraham Linksys.
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### Author:  [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-wifi-names/832576/10 "2019-04-15T16:33:09Z")
The most interesting one I can find at the moment is “Palais de \_\_\_\_\_\_” (the blank being the name of the street I live on.)
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-wifi-names/832576/11 "2019-04-15T16:57:27Z")
A neighbor is “Bill Wi the Science Fi”
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-wifi-names/832576/12 "2019-04-15T17:05:54Z")
Our neighborhood is totally boring. Just bunch of ATT or Asus or Moto something-or-others. ☹
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### Author:  [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-wifi-names/832576/13 "2019-04-15T17:06:39Z")
> [@davidm](#):
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> I can see one called “SurveillanceVan”.
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> Obviously it’s not really a surveillance van.
The name of my iPhone was “NSA Surveillance Van” for a couple of years, because when I’d turn on the hotspot feature, that’s what would show up as the WiFi SSID.
Right now, it’s “TRS-80” but I’m looking for clever alternatives.
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### Author:  [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-wifi-names/832576/14 "2019-04-15T17:16:57Z")
Someone round here has Wi Believe I Can Fi
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### Author:  [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-wifi-names/832576/15 "2019-04-15T17:17:42Z")
For years my wifi was names my cock since it amused me when I saw the message you are now connected to My Cock and I could make jokes when my friends connected too. Once I moved in with my wife she made me change it to “something family friendly” so now ours is Family Friendly.
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### Author:  [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-wifi-names/832576/16 "2019-04-15T17:19:00Z")
I’m happy sticking with my nondescript and virtually impossible to remember WiFi name. I don’t even remember it exactly, though I can recognize it when I see it on the list of WiFi names on my router.
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### Author:  [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-wifi-names/832576/17 "2019-04-15T18:26:02Z")
> [@CurtC](#):
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> The name of my iPhone was “NSA Surveillance Van” for a couple of years, because when I’d turn on the hotspot feature, that’s what would show up as the WiFi SSID.
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> …
My phone is something similar to that. I don’t recall exactly because I’m not the one connecting to it. My house has two wifis with 2 channels each. Upstairs and downstairs quick and slow. Depends which one you are closest to and some of the older devices can only get on one of the channels.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-wifi-names/832576/18 "2019-04-15T18:28:30Z")
For a long time there has been one called CSAA–I don’t know for sure what it stands for but I’ve always wondered if it had something to do with the Confederate States of America, because a neighbor a few hundred feet away flies a Confederate flag on a pole. Also, only a few days ago, a new network (or a newly renamed one) showed up named Trump2020.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-wifi-names/832576/19 "2019-04-15T18:29:34Z")
I’m getting a very strong signal from a Hidden Network and a weak one form rupaul. Pretty much everything else (14 out of 20) is a variation of a default name.
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-wifi-names/832576/20 "2019-04-15T18:53:05Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> For a long time there has been one called CSAA–I don’t know for sure what it stands for but I’ve always wondered if it had something to do with the Confederate States of America, because a neighbor a few hundred feet away flies a Confederate flag on a pole. Also, only a few days ago, a new network (or a newly renamed one) showed up named Trump2020.
Where are you? My first thought was an AAA affiliate, which according to Google’s preview serves “Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington” though I know that is at least partially false as NV and OR are different companies.
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