I want to rename my WiFi to <name of our local public school system>TruancySquad or something similar. I’m guessing most kids wouldn’t fall for it, and I’m not sure if we even have a truancy squad anymore. But perhaps just once…
I’ve thought about changing one of mine to something like [Town] Police Monitor but figured, with my luck, I’d just be inviting someone to hack it or something.
Mine is JOMAR, and I’ll give someone 10 internet points if they can guess the convoluted chain of events that led me to that name. Hint: Simpsons related.
I only see a couple, and they are generic. Mine is “NCC-1701”. Most of my neighbors are retired and aren’t internet savvy.
My brother in law used to have his named “buttsecks”. Then his kids got older and started using the internet. They were young enough to not understand the joke, but his wife made him change it when his daughter was trying to help a friend get on their wifi and kept saying “click on buttsecks”.
The kids were involved when we named our new network last year so we ended up with PrettyFlyForaWiFi. Unoriginal I know. We still think it is funny though.
Only other funny one we pick up is It Burns When IP
I used to work for a large security company, so I resisted changing mine to anything truly anarchic. I think I can come up with something interesting now though.
All of the ones around me are just a string of numbers or the device name.
I saw a post on Imgur that was a photo of peoplpes WiFi names and one was “I got you fam” and it was open.
I believe “fam” is short for family. At least that is the context it made sense to me as I’ve seen on Imgur.
VX-23
MURICA
MURICA-Guest (unsecured)
MineNotYours
And a whole bunch of device names
At home, mine is SKYNET, but I don’t broadcast it. Wife still doesn’t understand the reference, even after I attempted to explain it.
I’ve been tempted to name a guest network on my home router with a law enforcement-themed name, just to screw with my tinfoil hat-wearing, conspiracy-theorist neighbor… but it’s already difficult enough to disengage from a conversation with him. I can only imagine how off the rails he’d go if I put up a “SurveillanceVan” or “UnmarkedUnit3”.
Well even the most boring ones beat mine
I see none but my own, there are no other people remotely close enough, and mine are all just named functionally
house2g
house5g
garage
outside
i looked at work, and the most amusing one i found was walmartwifi
until i realized it really was the walmarts wifi