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.
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).
My best friend named his “Bill Wi The Science Fi”
Welp, I found my new wifi name.
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.
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.”
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.
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.)
Dobby is a TERF - right next to the Harry Potter gift shop in Edinburgh
Terf?
Congratulations on being one of today’s lucky 10,000
TERF - Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist
A name that some bigots have given themselves to appear presentable, because they’re saying they’re “protecting women” from a minority group that makes up less than 1% of the population (Trans People.) They’re basically a bigoted hate group, and/or a cult.
JK Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, famously is one of them, and funnels a lot of her money into that hate group. Dobby is one of her characters.
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. 🙂
Yes, we have the “fly” one exactly.
No Place Like 127.0.0.1
Be it ever so humble, there is no place like 127.0.0.1.
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.
It’s literally just a packet with the ssid and related info in it, shouted into the void. It becomes an issue if you shout so much that other people’s traffic is effectively jammed, otherwise, have fun.
Maybe you could get a wifi channel to yourself by adding a bunch of fake AP’s on the same channel, and having your neighbouring routers automatically switch to a “less crowded” channel.
They might use more heuristics than just the number of ssid’s advertised on a channel though.
Cat emojus
It’s fun learning which firmware breaks when trying to deal with it
ICanHearYouHavingSex was in a friend’s building
I’ve carried over Silence of The LANs to multiple routers for so many years now. An old favourite.
