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?
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.
And the password is: “TheCodeisontheBackoftheRouter1”
I’ve encountered the password “itsonthefridge”
LONGPASSWORDALLCAPS
Thereisnopassword
This LAN is my LAN
This LAN is your LAN (guest Wifi)
My Wi-Fi is named “Tell My Wi-Fi Love Her”
“Happy WiFi Happy Life”
Be better if it was “LiFi”
Tellmywifisaidhello
Tellmywifihadababyitsaboy
“Who was it, honey?” “It was Bob. They had a baby. It’s a boy.”
Man, commercials just used to live in your head like that. This was for 1-800 collect or one of the many, many copycats, right?
It was a Geico ad which took advantage of it being the era with all those competing collect-call services everyone knew about.
I’m pretty sure the commercial was before my time. I managed to catch the very tail-end of collect calls and payphones, though. I definitely used this trick all the time to get my parents to come out and collect (heh) me from school or the mall as a broke tween. It annoyed the shit out of them haha
Tell My WIFIm At Work
Dobby is a TERF - right next to the Harry Potter gift shop in Edinburgh
My 5GHz: Hot Signals In Your Area
My 2.4GHz: Mediocre Signals In Your Area
I still have a lot of love for 2.4GHz just because of how much farther the signal reaches than 5GHz. Mediocre only in the sense that it’s slower and that there’s too many avenues of potential interference (microwaves, other 2.4GHz devices clogging the spectrum).
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.”
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. 😅
Mine is named “Searching…”
It’s caught a few friends out
How long did they wait?
Router?IHardlyKnowHer!
Look Ma No Wires
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 phone WiFi hotspot is called JabbaTheHub
My phone wifi hotspot is Kaer Morhen. Not a clever pun at all, but it makes me happy.
troyandabedinthemodem
When I did van life for a while my hotspot was FBI Surveilled Van.
Albuquerque has a major street named Juan Tabo and every time I drove past I wondered who that was, after a dozen times I finally remembered to look it up when I got home and found out that it was just some non-noteworthy guy lost to time. Network became ‘discount Juan Tabo lookalike’
Saw a similar net here: “FBI Surveillance Van”. Fun fact: this is not in the US.
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
