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What's the strangest Wi-Fi name you've ever seen? 😮

Rachel on August 04, 2020

This weekend, I went to my aunt's home. Being the obnoxious techie that I am, the first thing I said when I stepped into the house was this: "What...
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Adnan Rizvan •

OBI WLAN KENOBI.

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Rachel XenoX •

This is epiccc!

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Pierre Bouillon • • Edited

Awesome ! 😄 I'm definitely stealing it !

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Alvaro Saburido •

Hahahha so many:

  • Panic at the Cisco
  • Everyday I'm buffering
  • Got 99 Problems but wI-FI AIN'T ONE
  • BatLAN and Robin
  • House LANnister

God, I need to go back to work hahaha.

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bronxsystem •

House LANister ahahaha

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Rachel XenoX •

Every single one of these made me chuckle lmao.

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Mersano Berant •

HAHAHA

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Elliot Derhay • • Edited

Now that I'm seeing this again, I would love to set up a fake WiFi network named "Enter at own risk" and connect it to a Raspberry Pi that directs all network traffic to a jump scare image or video stored locally.

If I had a Pi and extra router on hand, I totally would do this. Lol 😆

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Palash Bauri 👻 •

I named mine :
cxxxx[]::::::::::::::::::::::::>

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Peter Kim Frank •

Was at a coffee shop and saw the network name "Tell my Wifi Love Her" which was definitely good for a chuckle.

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Utkarsh Talwar XenoX •

Hahaha I think I saw a meme on this one too XD so hilarious!

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Sunil Kumar •

"penny get your own wifi" 😃

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Rachel XenoX •

Sheldon said it right! 😂

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Gil •

Wu-Tang LAN

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Pavol Pidanič • • Edited

Once I saw: "Konšpiračný byt" (In Slovak). Could be translated as conspiracy apartment. It was a joke related to Slovak political corruption scandal Gorilla

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Avalander • • Edited

Haven't seen it first hand, but someone on the internet posted an image with something similar to this Mum, click here.

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Rachel XenoX •

Can't decide if this is cute or funny! :p

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Utkarsh Talwar XenoX •

JOEY DOESN'T SHARE WIFI!
Quite old but this did make me chuckle when I first saw it...

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Szikszai Gusztáv •

I have a similar one on my list: CasadeJoey :D

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Andris Laduzans • • Edited

Mine's "turn down that metal!" ...so that i would have undeniable evidence, that it's not me forcing all neighbours to listen to metal.

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Elliot Derhay •

Completely and totally undeniable 😆

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Klaus Baldermann •
  • don't remember the exact wording, translated it would be "you won't come in"
  • not yet seen in the wild, but bet it is in use somewhere: You Shall Not Pass!
  • several friends had their SSIDs refer to "Messwagen" (radio/emission measuring vehicle)
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Christian Baer •

My guest wifi is now "5G-Corona-Pole" (actually "5G-Corona-Mast", because I'm from Germany).
My real Wifi is called WOA-LAN (WOA -> Wacken Open Air)
The legacy 2.4GHz Wifi is of course called OBI-WLAN-KENOBI.

One of my neighbours called his wifi "Karl-Singel-30cm". Yes, he misspelled 'single'...

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Pierre Bouillon •

Mine is "FBI Tacos Van", always fun to see this name pop in the crowded area of my university !

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Ben Halpern •

This is a good evolution on the "FBI Surveillance Van" wifi trope

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viracoding •

Martin Router King

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Galuh Utama •

Pretty fly for a Wifi

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Patrick Tingen •

Me: What's the wifi password?
Bartender: You need to buy a drink first.

Me: Okay, I'll have a coke.

Bartender: Is Pepsi okay?

Me: Sure. How much is that?

Bartender: $3.

Me: There you go. So what's the wifi password?

Bartender: You need to buy a drink first. No spaces, all lowercase.

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vianel •

Lan solo

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ovidiu12 •

Two girls one router

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Patrick Tingen •

Don't dare to explore any further. What has been seen....

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Jayshree •

My wi-fi name is "NOT AVAILABLE", but I have seen really strange ones, like "le bhikhari",(take this beggar) and like someone's name with i love u 'name' :D

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Paweł Kowalski • • Edited

5G test 300% power <city 120 kilometers away name>

Got a chuckle knowing there are people thinking 5G is causing covid :D

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Tanmaiy Bhateja XenoX •

My home wifi name is "Get a hotspot mate".

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Mike •

This LAN is your LAN

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Dinakar Chandolu •

homemadeChicken

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Gnio •

When I visit Sydney for the first time, the first network I found was named "it hurts when I pee"

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Ken Bellows •

This Is Not The SSID You're Looking For

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Casey Brooks •

I named my hotspot "virus.exe" 😁

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️ •

For a while my wifi SSID was NSA Germany™

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Deepak Raj •
once I saw

searching for wifi

quite funny

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Jose Angel Munoz •

Mine is called root

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Alvaro Saburido •

HAHAHAHHAHAHH that's legendary

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Vishal Gupta •

Skynet

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François •

You can use emoji in your wifi name :)
Such "My wifi rocks 🦄"

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ItsASine (Kayla) •

Some older devices have issues with emoji in SSIDs though :( My networks are Galaxy News Radio and Radio New Vegas, and I used to have the radio emoji but things like the Logitec Harmony Hub and the Wemo Smart Plug couldn't find them.

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François •

sad :(
Could be used to prevent people to use your devices then :D

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Ian Clark •

In my condo building we have - Abraham Linksys.

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cupOfCode •

General kenobi

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JoLo •

Mine is
The holy WiFi Lama.

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Daniel Leong 🇸🇬 •

We have 'measles' in the office building. One of the business in the building must have caught it from someone.

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kristian • • Edited

WANter is Coming

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Emilie Ma •

"No Free WiFi For You" - a rare hotspot on a cruise.

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Rachel XenoX •

That hurts.

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JB Wood •

Bill Wi the science Fi

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Heinek Halwin •

No Devices Found

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Shravan Kumar B •

Benjamin FranLAN 🤣
Internet Disabled 😂

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Manas P • • Edited

My WIFI Name is My Name itself, "Manas".
😂😂😂

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Martín Dev. •

"FBI Truck"

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Harika Yedidi •

Ours is NSA

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nvulane •

CoV-2 5G

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inusanaimu •

I bet the strangest Wi-Fi name is “Click-&-Die” it wasn't not a public Wi-Fi.

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Chris McKay •

I've seen one named "FBI Listening Van #1."

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0xkniraj •

TrojanHorse

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Keagan Van Rooyen •

I recently had me neighbors move in, and their WiFi name is "We don't WiFi here"

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Edoardo Ceccarelli •

U+1F600

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Ibrahim Abdullahi Aliyu •

'The Password is simple, guess it'

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Michael Messerli •

One that I still remember from around 2009 was "Pretty fly for a WIFI"

Currently have a neighbor:
Escaped Nigerian Prince

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Irfan Krijestorac •

5G Hotspot :D

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Mohamed Sabith •

"Because a LANnister never forget"

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GlyphCat •

MYVIRUS…
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krishna kakade •

Ethernet

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Wami Ikechukwu •

lol... my Wifi name is "Has No Name"

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bronxsystem • • Edited

My wifi was virus-exjs383-pc or fedal-police-van-1003ab
Thought would prevent people trying to connect.

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Sarahli19 • • Edited

Another Star wars related one, but ours is called Lan Solo 😄

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Bikramjeet Singh •

My friend named his phones hotspot "Martin Router King". That cracked me up immediately.

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Nimesh Vellera •

I have mine as 8HzWANIP

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Agathe Badia •

Tell_My_Wifi_Love_Her

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lucbark •

“donttouchanyone”

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Anuj Singh •

BapuBadmash

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Patrick Tingen •

My son in law has a WiFi which is called "CIA observation post #144"

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IDerevyansky •

On my work have secret wifi sweet cherry ))

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bartweb •

I have „Loading” and „Loading5G”

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Keagan Van Rooyen •

I've had that before, it confused so many people

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ec404-cool •

I got this signal nearby: "Sorry for loud sex at 3 am"

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Jonathan Gómez •

At some years ago I see a hotspot name it something like:

DIRECT-9a-HP M102 LaserJet

And yes, I'm pretty sure it was a internet network and not a printer hehe

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Prab SD • • Edited

For a good while have been using "Go away your muggle".

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adithyakam •

connection failed ....

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Piyush Acharya •

My neighbor's Wi-Fi network's name is Malware 😆.

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jangachary sriramadas •

Previously "YourPhoneWasHacked!!"
Now "Testing".
And i used to set password as "I dont Know".