[email protected] kindly commented that wifi network names of you and your neighbour can be used to locate your address, so please be aware to avoid betraying your privacy. Peace!

  • @CuddlyCassowary
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    My 5gHz is “Hot Signals in Your Area.” My 2.4gHz is “Mediocre Signals in Your Area.”

    • yeehaw
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      But technically the signal strength of 2.4 goes farther than 5, so this one hurts my brain. Perhaps because when I think mediocre signals… I think mediocre signal strength. 🤷🏽‍♀️

      • @CuddlyCassowary
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        Speed over strength. It doesn’t need to go further, just faster.

      • key
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        57 months ago

        So maybe more like “Hot Signals Near You” and “Mediocre Signals In Your Area” to signal the difference in distance

  • forty2
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    1067 months ago

    It hurts when IP

  • @bfg9k
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    This is my main Network name.

    It confuses the hell out of Macs and some Linux stuff refuses to connect.

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      I had Zoidberg “(\/)(,;;,)(\/)” for awhile. And, yeah, not all devices liked that.

    • @evidences
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      Elaborate on the “confuses the hell out of macs” statement please.

      • @bfg9k
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        66 months ago

        At least on the wife’s Mac it sometimes sees it fine but sometimes refuses to connect or even see it

        • @AnalogyAddict
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          76 months ago

          That’s all WiFi on a Mac.

          Source: have a Mac.

        • @evidences
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          Interesting my neighbor is a network engineer and has a Mac for work, I think I might set up another SSID with this to see his reaction.

  • cosmictrickster
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    887 months ago

    Saw a 5Ghz one called “COVID Vaccine”

  • gregorum
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    777 months ago

    Mines been named “WiFiArtThouRomeo” for, like, 20 years. Don’t know if it’s funny, but I think it’s cute. 

  • @slugworth
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    727 months ago

    Mine is named Connecting… My guest network is Reconnecting…

  • @S0UPernova
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    727 months ago

    Our neighbors grow weed, so my brother set one up as DEA Surveillance Van.

    • Drunemeton
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      127 months ago

      When we moved into our new place there was, “FBI Surveillance Van 1” and a “…2”!

  • @Guy_Fieris_Hair
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    Martin Router King Jr

    Router I hardly know 'er

    5G Covid Test Tower 37692b

  • @shalafi
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    617 months ago

    Had one named “FBI Surveillance Van #3”. I know, not so creative even 10-years ago, but read on.

    Guy at the end of the street sold weed. He was telling my neighbor to be on the lookout, there was an FBI van cruising around. Being at the end of the street, my signal faded in and out like it was moving. Dude was freaked the fuck out.

    • @shandrakor
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      When I use my phone hotspot it is named RCMP Surveillance Horse #69

      • @shalafi
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        LOL, you’re even more country-fried than I am! Maybe I should name my mobile spot, “Fish & Wildlife #23”.

    • @[email protected]
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      I had one with my countrys version of the “Van”. Then ubiquity had a zero day exploit become public knowledge back then and someone renamed the SSID “NotThePolice”. Didn’t do anything else. Just that.

  • LCP
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    Visited a CeX store.

    Their locked, employee-only Wi-Fi: Protected CeX

    Their open public WiFi: Unprotected CeX

  • @Warl0k3
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    567 months ago

    RCMP SURVEILLANCE MOOSE #2091

  • @[email protected]
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    517 months ago

    Mine is “GetOffMyLAN”. Then one of my neighbors changed theirs to “GetOffMyLan69”. I’m not even mad.

    • livus
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      Reminds me of when our street had an Area 51, new neighbours moved in and immediately set up Ayy Lmao.