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?
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
Great story inbound!
Named my router FBI Surveillance Van #3 back in 2015 or so. Thought nothing of it.
Next door neighbor told me the weed dealer at the end of the block was losing his mind, asking if neighbor had seen the van on his wi-fi! Best part, the weed man was just far enough away for the signal to fade in and out, like a roving vehicle. No one ever told him. 😆
EDIT: Long as I’m doing dumb tech stories…
Printed one of those “voice activated printer” signs for the company printer. Figured someone would have a giggle. Walking by, I caught my co-worker yelling, “PRINT! PRINT! Damn you! PRINT!” and giving the printer the evil eye. She was not amused. At all.
No way, thats exactly what i named my dads wifi when i set it up for him 😂
#3 and all?! 😆
Yea haha, with the # and everything xD
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).
troyandabedinthemodem
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”
Thereisnopassword
Mine is named “Searching…”
It’s caught a few friends out
How long did they wait?
A friend used to have ItHurtsWhenIP
This was my phone hotspot for a while, but it was “ItHzWhenIP”
I’ve also seen ITHertzWANIP
My 2.4 is “Sir IP alot”, and my 5g is “Sir IP alot faster”.
I see one of those in my neighborhood.
My best friend named his “Bill Wi The Science Fi”
Welp, I found my new wifi name.
FBI Surveillance Van used to be nearby. Not around anymore.
Got a singleconnect close.
RCMP Surveillance Horse
Friend of mine in southern Ontario labels his
OPP_surveillance_van_001
OPP_surveillance_van_002
OPP_surveillance_van_003
Three different wifi ssids for one house? Bold.
Seen crazy brilliant shit at DefCon trying to remember…,
- Rick Astley lyrics on like 6 different APs : Never_gonna_giveyouup / neverGonnaRunAround / etc
- Remote-Detonator
- FBIvan
- FreeOktaTokens
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.”
Mine is “The LAN Before Time”
I’ve also seen “LAN of the Lost”
That’s what she SSID
My sister had me set the name for the Wi-Fi extender as “Papa John’s Pizza and Abortions.” For the record, my mother’s side of the family are mostly hardcore Catholics.
(I think I mentioned this once before on a similar thread.)
Let me guess, the password is “YourLossIsOurSauce”
Wi-fi is a wireless connection, hence the “wi” part, but sending wireless signals is not new - smoke signals are another option, so my network is the full name: Wireless fireless.
I find it funny that they thought to copy “Hi-Fi” when fidelity isn’t really how 802.11 works since it has an entire digital layer, though now I kinda of miss that they dropped it lol.
