My WiFi is ‘Secret Rebel Base’.

My neighbours have added ‘Jabba the Hub’, ‘Obi Lan Kenobi’, and ‘Red WiFi-ve Standing By’. This makes me happy.

Anyone else live in a neighbourhood that embraces this kind of WiFi silliness?

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    I have a boring Wifi name and everyone around too, but this reminds me that I was once sitting on the train and was watching a video with bluetooth headphones in and texting with my friends and some jerk constantly tried to connect to my phone via bluetooth. A pop up window constantly asked me if I wanted to connect to this other guy’s phone and since I was texting I came close to misclicking on ‘yes’ more than once. Then I renamed my phone to FuckOff and he got the message, since then all my phones are called FuckOff.

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    My girlfriend’s neighbors have “yer a wifi Harry” and “Harry you are a wizard” or something to make fun of the first one.

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    Thats actually cool. My neighbours have incredibly boring names, default names like tp-link and netgear… Zzz.

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    One of our neighbours has his set to “SAPS Surveillance Van” - “SAPS”, South African Police Services.

    Ours is named after my son’s YouTube channel… free advertising!

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    4 hours ago

    I wish to name it in a funny way. But there is a ton of devices that I have connected over the wifi and I dont have enough willpower to reconnect them all once I change the name.

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    6 hours ago

    Just a note since google maps your SSID: To opt out, change the SSID (name) of your Wi-Fi access point (your wireless network name) so that it ends with “_nomap.” For example, if your SSID is “12345,” you would change it to “12345_nomap.”

    And probably not a good idea to publish your SSID if you don’t want your location known because of things like this https://wigle.net/

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    I’ve been using “Riri Wifi et Loulou” for more than a decade. It’s a pun on the french names of Huey, Dewey and Louie (it’s supposed to be Riri Fifi et Loulou).