I was doing my ‘Tripler thing’ downtown yesterday, and walking by a little coffee shop, I saw a network:
Wu-Tang-LAN
Obviously, I didn’t connect to it, but it made me snerk. It reminded me of two more I’ve seen:
Routers of the Lost Ark
LANhattan Project
I don’t get out out much anymore, but what are other novel ones you’ve seen?
Tripler
I was walking downtown to do some errands, you weirdoes. Jeez, get yer mind outta the gutter
When I set up the wifi for my parents/sister, I set it to “I watch you while you sleep” but after a day or two they made me change it. They (well, my sister) were paranoid that not only would someone take it seriously, but also figure out it was theirs. I changed it to “Bobby Loves Whitney” which they kept for quite a while (this was before she died).
Someone near my work has “[City name] Police Dept Van”. For our work wifi, I named it The Wall and guest/IOT network is The Wall Part 2. (We were having a retaining wall built at the time).
One of our neighbors’ was called ‘FBI Lookout’ or something similar-- haven’t seen it in awhile.
One of my neighbors has “Tell My WiFi Love Her.”
I think that’s pretty popular - I see “FBI_SurveilenceVanX” on my scan, and a coworker has seen something pretty similar at his home.
Either that or the FBI has some little known regulation that their wifi SSIDs must be truthful.
Just did a scan, the other humorous SSID is “Pigs&Bourbon”. Amusingly, it appears to be the same router as the FBI Van. I’ll have to figure out which neighbor that is.
I have an Eero router with the SSID “Jukeboxeero”.
I foolishly taught my wife how to change the WiFi network name and ended having to connect my laptop to “Skynet Global Defense Network” for some years.
Reminds me of a good one:
Bob got a text from his next door neighbor Joe-- “Bob, I have a confession to make-- I’ve been stealing your wife from you ever since I got rid of mine, because I lost my job and couldn’t afford the cost any more. I do it when you’re at work so you don’t notice. I couldn’t help myself- your wife is just so fast and easy to get into. It’s been a real guilty pleasure, but I can’t go on any longer. I’m sorry”.
Bob is enraged. He grabs a gun, immediately goes to Joe’s house, and when Joe answers the door, shoots him dead.
When Bob gets back home, he sees Joe had sent him another text, apparently while he was walking over to Joe’s house.
“Hey Bob, I meant ‘WIFI’-- stupid spellcheck!! 
”
I made my guest network “Antifa Recruitment Center”. We’ve learned a lot about some of our guests that way.
Best in my neighborhood was Get Off My WLAN (probably some old codger like me).
Mine, as noted previously, is Chaos Manor, with G and T suffixes for Guest and IoT. The one on my phone is Howl’s Moving Hotspot (we’re Studio Ghibli fans).
Not a LAN that I found, but when I set up the first PC network for the National Air and Space Museum in the 1980s, I named the two servers Orville and Wilbur.
Your servers were all wright.
I was helping my daughter set up her WiFi a couple of years ago and we called it “Pretty Fly for a WiFi”.
Heh, I came here to mention seeing that very connection while accessing my daughter’s wifi.
There’s one near my office that I assume is coming from the apartment complex a few blocks away “YellPeni$forPassword” spelled exactly that way. So far I haven’t actually heard anyone try it.
One of my neighbors has “The LAN Before Time”
I still laugh at “My network. Get your own.”
I just checked, and I see an “ElephantEar” and a “slightlysticky.”
Someone in our apartment building named theirs “ILoveUnicorns” so we changed ours to “Dragons>Unicorns”. They changed theirs to “UnicornsRAwesome”, so we changed ours to “DragonsEatUnicorns”. Then they moved out and that is what ours remains named as.
They “moved out,” huh? Yeah, right.
“BillWIthescienceFI”