Ah the humble service set identifier! It seems to have grown from a simple way for access points to identify themselves to potential clients to a little public bulletin board for airing one’s grievances toward noisy neighbors or showcasing one’s wit.
What notable SSIDs have you run into out in the wild or created yourself?
ours is “flamingos for sale” 🦩
I used to live near someone who had “Mum use this one”, so in OpenWRT I set up several networks with the names:
“Mum use THIS one!” “Mum Use This One” “MUM USE THIS ONE” “Mum use this one (real)” etc, etc
I named mine “skynet”
“Tweakers Live Downstairs”. They were right.
I’ve carried over Silence of The LANs to multiple routers for so many years now. An old favourite.
Mine used to be “Network Name? Why not Zoidberg?”
I think I’m gonna have to name my next one “Jen this is the internet” or something similar
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.”
My network name used to be: DoYouKnowWhyIAmFat? Password: EverytimeIFuckYoMomSheGivesMeACookie#2024
When I was living in an apartment complex for students, I saw “secret batcave wlan”, so I changed mine to “wayne manor guests”
UncleTouchysNakedPuzzleBasement
I’m keen on my own: NecromancerGlitterPonies
Mine is coincidentally named “Where’s the ponies?” 🤣
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.
My last one was ‘Insert WiFi Pun Here’ because I couldn’t think of a good one in the spot.
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
Here in my country I’ve seen many “Martin Router King”
I live on Martin Luther King street so it makes sense. 🙂
