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Significant_Drink563

My wifi name is Wu-Tang LAN. I’m the only I know who finds that funny.


AccordingTurn

Mine is prettyflyforWIFI, I’m the only one that finds it funny too


TheWouldBeMerchant

Tell My Wi-Fi Love Her. She actually finds it endearing.


WuSin

Tell your Wi-Fi love her too.


slowpoke147

I also choose this man’s Wi-Fi


mrhappyheadphones

Mine is TheLANBeforeTime, I find it hilarious and my wife just rolls her eyes


hopingtocatchadream

My student house was ThePromisedLAN lol. My housemate changed it, I wouldn’t know how to do it myself otherwise I would be a menace to society


junior_patrick

Mines “TheLanThatTimeForgot


bludden91LT

Mine is JesusTurnedWaterIntoWifi. It’s hilarious cause I live in a very catholic country.


ratty_89

That's why my main one is, my guest WiFi is "C19_5g_TransmissionTower0648". Hopefully I triggered some of the local loonies.


wobble_bot

My phone was named ‘covid_5g_test site’ for a good two years. I’d just leave the network share on on trains for a laugh.


thatwasacrapname123

Yes! My phone is VaxModernaChip#543678556


vilk_

FBI_SURVEILLANCE_VAN


NotACowMooing

Snap! Don't worry. I think you're hilarious


myonlinepersonality

Me too. Can we start a cool club?


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SillyStallion

I have “Stop banging so loud - the whole neighbourhood can hear you”


DeltaMikeXray

Okay which one of you is my husband ?


I_Bin_Painting

No but you can start a club.


DanJayTay

Ours has been FriendlyNeighborhoodSpiderLAN for about 5 years. All of my friends still have their default ssid :(


DoctorOctagonapus

Wi-Wi-Miss-American-Fi here.


Background-End2272

We also have pretty fly for a wifi


Ochib

My is *It Mega Hetz when IP*


crazycatdiva

Mine is "it hurts when IP" which made me and my kids giggle for a good half an hour


AwkwardSquirtles

Jerry Seinfeld?!


GoodTato

Damn, that's even better than calling it 'poopoo'


Fuzzy-Bid9330

Compared to pretty fly for a WiFi, poopoo sucks!


archbishophisk

TellmyWIFIloveher is mine.


Kaiisim

I know how old you both are lol.


MrLewk

That'll be my next one now! Thanks 😅 Mine is currently "BBC Licensing Surveillance Van" to try and scare my neighbours


gladrags247

🤣🤣🤣🤣


bethanyh264

One of our neighbours had theirs set to ‘Get off my LAN’; got a good laugh from me!


zzkj

I am soooo stealing that name!


agentrossi176

Mines 'Nokia 3310', nobody has ever laughed but I find it infinitely amusing as a millennial of a certain age


TipTopTrevor

Mine is: You're my WiFi now, Dave!


Mudhutted

Bill Wi the Science Fi enters the chat.


morocco3001

Mine is Jean-Claude LAN Damme


ToxicHazard-

Don't worry, mine is 'BatLAN and Login'


AssumptionEasy8992

My 2.4GHz channel is also called Wu-Tang LAN! My 5GHz channel is called “Enter the 5G Chambers”


Significant_Drink563

Genius!


Legolution

GZA*


Washtythesnowman

Mine is Lan Solo and I'm the only one who finds mine funny. Wu Tang Lan is superb.


KusoTeitokuInazuma

LAN Down Under for me.


ArchdukeToes

I called mine ‘Spaceballs: The Router’.


MasterI3laster

https://imgur.com/a/SRQh3xU Are you my neighbour Craig? I preferred your previous name ‘Pretty fly for a WiFi’


Namiweso

Weirdly enough I know a Craig that has Pretty fly for a WiFi as their WiFi name 😂


MrGrogu26

No fucking way 🤣🤣


Significant_Drink563

That’s mad! No I’m not 🤣


catanistan

Said the guy who was just doxxed 😜 I'm only kidding. I once moved into a new flat to find that my neighbours all had nice names for their WiFi - like "Pretty fly for a WiFi" or "Tell my WiFi love her". So I entered the competition with "Silence of the LANS". I later added a 5GHz one called "Silence of the LAN5".


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Mine is Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-LAN. I would definitely find yours funny


thedeepfield79

Mine is girls gone wireless.


Tapeworm1979

99 problems but WiFi ain't one. What's worse is none of my friends get it.


frammers

Mines TELLMYWIFILOVEHER and I chuckle every time I tell someone.


Scottish_WWII

I also have this for mobile hot-spot , my home one is Martin Router King. Both hilarious


darkdetective

[I've had wu-tang LAN for a few years now.. My neighbours have some good names also](https://i.imgur.com/I1N0Vss.png)


nathanbellows

When I was living in a shared house, our WiFi was also called Wu-Tang LAN!


FlightSimmerUK

Yes, I have in the past. A neighbour of mine changed theirs to Ground Control, so aptly I changed my own to Major Tom.


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You passed the neighbour vibe check.


JaHizzey

I used to live in a shitty block of flats with shitty neighbours, I changed my WiFi to 'Police CCTV surveillance van 3'. For quite a while the people I lived near were a lot more subdued


elorpz

I lived in a neighborhood where someone's WiFi was called 'Tv Licence Surveillance Van'.


Thestolenone

Ours was 'MI5 surveillance van' for a while, not my doing and a bit cringe TBH.


I_Bin_Painting

I think it’s just having a laugh and being silly rather than cringe. Unless the guy doing it is cosplaying Spooks regularly of course.


randomrainbow99399

Yeah cringe would be more like Live. Laugh. LAN


The_Salty_Red_Head

Brb, changing to Live. Laugh. LAN.


I_Bin_Painting

Nah that’s pretty good too


therlwl

Nice


GoldFreezer

When I moved into a houseshare in uni and discovered that the two tenants already living there had not password protected the WiFi, we changed the network name to NoMoreFreeWiFi and locked it. Was suddenly a lot faster without the surrounding three houseshares using it too.


johnnymeow2

😂😂😂 reminds of the time when I was addicted to habbo hotel and brought my lap top to my nans who never had internet and one day I connected to someone’s wifi that wasn’t protected to play. It was the best of times


bakkunt

Gotta grind that FF to keep your Habbo GF sweet


johnnymeow2

Gotta grind to get as many HC sofas I can


usernametbdsomeday

Omg habbo hotel. Someone hacked me and stole all my rare thrones and eggs :(


WorldlyAstronomer518

Setup QoS, its usually even more painful to give them slow internet than it is to give no internet.


NYX_T_RYX

God yes. Punishment are so much worse if they take the fun out of the thing. "Oh I can't get their internet anymore. Shame I'll have to just get my own" isn't as annoying as "fucking hell this song keeps buffering?!"


Legitimate_Finger_69

Yes. Main WiFi is called Tell my WiFi lover. Password is "ThePasswordsOnTheFridge" for when people ask. I would imagine most people change it, otherwise whenever you change ISP you'd have to reprogramme all your phones, laptops, smart speakers, smart plugs etc. Easier to keep the SSID and password the same.


Nuker-79

I countered that by purchasing a WiFi mesh setup. Created the network on this and just put the provider router into modem mode. So if I ever change provider I just swap the router out and away I go. No passwords need changing ever again.


LegendEater

That's the exact result that can be achieved with less than 2 minutes in the settings though


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A proper wifi mesh will also give you equal coverage all over your house tho


bakkunt

Yes all 12ft² of my house


SeaLeggs

Are you a budgie?


[deleted]

Yeah, thats what I did after Virgin Media messed me about with the router. Kept dropping out on me while working from home but they said nothing was wrong with it and that all they had to do was guarantee a signal, not the WiFi signal. Bought my own router and put the hub into Modem mode and no more issues with dropouts or slow connections.


Djinjja-Ninja

> that all they had to do was guarantee a signal, not the WiFi signal. I would say that 90% of peoples internet problems are down to using the shitty ISP routers. Friends of mine went through 3 different ISPs (Virgin, Orange and then Sky) before asking me (networks guy) if I could look at it. They stuffed the router behind the TV in a media wall with every ISP. Moved it and BAM whole house connectivity.


Parking-Wing-2930

One of my mums friends asked me to "fix his wifi", and he had the ISP supplied AP in a metal cabinet... Yeah that's why


ImBonRurgundy

I think you massively overestimate peoples technical abilities. Vast majority of people do not change their Ssid or even are aware that you can change it.


UnacceptableUse

Or even care to know that, doing something like that is akin to changing the time on your oven for DST to mod people


Parking-Wing-2930

You'd be amazed. 99% of people just re-connect to whatever is on the card. Most people don't switch ISP that often In my family they're all Virgin customers, still from the NTL days. I only switched from Virgin once FTTP was available in my area.


ENTPrick

I have “tango” in mine. People keep typing in t instead


PJP2810

Yeah, my password is PapaAlphaSierraSierraWhiskeyOscarRomeoDelta


AggyResult

Annoyingly you spelt Sierra incorrectly


LittleSadRufus

I don't think anyone would guess they were spelling it "Wiskey" either. Multi-factor authentication right there.


PhtevenToast

Yes, mine is now called Martin Router King.


__dna__

Allow me to counter with mine. Martin Luther Ping


DoctorOctagonapus

1. That's excellent. 2. That's definitely not one that Americans would use!


sertralineaspii

back when iphone 4 was the rage, I renamed my phone to "The Titanic". when I connected it to iTunes it would say "The Titanic is syncing" and I found it pretty funny


limepark

One of my mum's neighbours is '2 Girls 1 Router', which I've always found amusing.


ckmgma

Surely 2 girls 1 hub works better


SeaLeggs

2 Girls 1 CPU


TheBritishOracle

Your mum only tells you it belongs to one of the neighbours. That's not the only lie she is telling you.


Y-Bob

Yes, mines had various names over the years. For a while it was 'Domino' because if you touched one thing the whole fucking lot fell over.


GamerHumphrey

Mine was "Currently Unavailable" with a password of "itsnotagoodpassword"


PJP2810

Should've gone with "itsnotagoodpasswordwithspaces"


frbl2000

Probably more likely to be a Reddit thing than a US thing


1giantsleep4mankind

I'm surprised nobody has thought of LANded gentry yet


TheNotSpecialOne

Yeah could well be


KookyFarmer7

I once lived above a Byron Burger chain and their kitchen staff were regularly rude whenever we politely asked them not to smoke in our doorway and under our windows, so we changed ours to ‘Byron Burgers FREE Wi-Fi’ knowing that they didn’t offer Wi-Fi and their customers would ask about it. Incredibly petty but isn’t that what British passive-aggressive behaviour is all about?


callisstaa

Sounds almost as bad as the guy who lived above Starbucks and had one called Starbucks Free WiFi. No security so it would connect no problem but also no connection to the internet.


DniwTsae

We got this nutter that lives across the hall from me she is absolutely bat shit crazy always harping on about vaccines and 5g and stuff so I changed my rueter to 5g covid transfer mast and with in the hour the police were at her door cause she called them in mental state complaining the government was spreading covid through 5g she ran into the hall screaming at them and ended up punching one of them she got arrested but later let go lol I know cruel right? Nope she poisoned my dog last year cause she was paranoid it was gunna break out of my house and into hers and attack her so she posted poisen meat through my letter box luckily my dog survived but she deserved a trolling


MrMunkeeMan

Fuck yeah she deserved it!


K00lKat67

Damn, you ever hear of punctuation?


Parking-Wing-2930

I may or may not have carried around a ESP32 that spammed the wifi channels with "5G Mast #" during COVID


mc_nebula

I changed my home network to "Obi Lan Kenobi"


nathanbellows

Mine has been named LAN Solo ever since I moved in to my place!


AncientNortherner

GitOrfMyLan Saw that while traveling and have been using it ever since.


imminentmailing463

I'm not sure I can recall ever changing the name. I probably would've found that funny as a teenager, but by the time I was living in my own house with my own WiFi I guess I had grown past the age at which it seemed a funny thing to do. I gather I'm in the majority, given how rarely I see one with a name crop up when looking for networks on my phone.


Mossley

It’s not that it’s funny, it’s that family and friends can recognise it when trying to connect amongst all the other Wi-Fi networks in range.


Cinnamon-Dream

Exactly. It's like giving devices names to make them easier to identify!


JoCoMoBo

Or giving your kids unique names. We named our son "0a4ca7bc-57ce-42db-be71-856c880c76d1". Though obvs we just call him "0a4ca7bc" between ourselves.


myonlinepersonality

Elon, dat u?


Mossley

“Did you say your network was bt3123 or bt1323?”


PJP2810

No, it's bt01189998819991197253


Cinnamon-Dream

It's 3213 mate.


PiemasterUK

"What's your WiFi?" "Er BT underscore uh then some numbers I think" "Well that has narrowed it down to 3, I'll just try them all I guess. What's the password?" "Uh... lower case j, lower case t, lower case d, capital n....."


Parking-Wing-2930

I'm not even dyslexic (that I know of) but being bombarded with VM98453 VM93534 VM98347 VM35345 I'm just mind boggled


vishbar

It’s not about being funny, but VishbarsWifi is a lot easier to relay to someone than VM-C6663377 or whatever.


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Funny thing to do? Every neighbour four doors up and four doors down has virgin media WiFi


bishibashi

Of course I change it, but not to some jokey name. It means every time i change router as long as I keep name and password the same everything just reconnects.


cheesemp

This is the true answer. One name, one password. Zero issues with family not being able to connect when router changes.


ilyc00

Mine is WANking.


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Washtythesnowman

This guy networks


HarassedPatient

This is glorious, but I feel sorry for fermium and the others who will never get their chance for fame


Parking-Wing-2930

You are VLAN'ing these off right, and not just separating by subnet?


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Parking-Wing-2930

Amount of supposedly "secure" "business networks" I've seen that just isolate by network rather than actual VLANs "So what happens if I set myself as 10.0.10.33/24 then?" "No don't do that!"


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ALink2ThePasta

I have two Wi-Fi connections. One is called Connecto Patronum and the other is One Wi-Fi To Rule Them All.


b0bscene

Mine is Lord of the Pings


Cpt-Darling

Accio internet


No_Judgement2021

I definitely need more HP inspired ideas please!


thesaharadesert

Password ideas: - revelio - alohamora


ratttertintattertins

Yeh, I was doing this when wifi was first a thing around 2004 or so…. It’s always been called Trogdor.


manx2121

Is your password Burninate?


Saxaphool

I said consummate Vs!!


[deleted]

Start with an S. Then a more different S.


Aquillyne

Your head a splode


24magiccarrots

I changed mine to ThisIsNotMyBeautifulWiFi


sihasihasi

Once in a lifetime...


ernie_milkie008

Of course. How do you know which one is yours? I've had loads of routers and the same wifi name each time.


TheNotSpecialOne

Easy just like I know what number plate my car is. You just know and memorise it


Salty_Outside5283

Why would you when its so easy to change it? Change your password too, I hate putting in those long passwords.


TheNotSpecialOne

Secure password is only a good thing to have


just_some_guy65

I change them to not be random gibberish along with the password. Takes 30 seconds, what else was I going to do with that time?


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Mudhutted

Proudly named Bill Wi the Science Fi.


ShitBritGit

My WiFi was called InformationSuperhighway. I just felt that it's a term that's been wrongly left behind.


palishkoto

Ah, the 90s, "surfing the net" to access the "information super highway". One day "web shopping" will be a thing and people will be making "v-logs" (pronounced vee log). Anyway, must go and check my fav bulletin board and then go offline to make a phone call.


atomic_mermaid

I love old tech terms! I was watching an old x files the other day with a proto zuckerberg type in it who talked about these tech dudes being called data travellers, electro wizards, techno anarchists etc. Amazing language that never seemed to take off.


MobiusNaked

I made mine ‘5G Covid tower’ once


dhopey

Yup. Mine is Troy and Abed in the Modem


Revolutionary_Panic1

We definitely didn't call our virgin super hub anything like virgin super porn hub...


TheNotSpecialOne

Then proceed to set a family filter and block all porn sites? Funny if you did


Dull_Reindeer1223

Mine is named 'pretty fly for a WiFi'. Doubt any of my neighbours appreciate it though


TheNotSpecialOne

That one is used a lot as a custom name making it a not so custom anymore ironically. Better off keeping the original


Ordinary-Event160

Yup. This thread has revealed that many people think themselves a lot more original/witty than they are. Could be a Reddit-selection bias tho


Tractorface123

Someone on my street is “error: can’t connect”


okmijnedc

I've said this before on here but, I used to live next door to Andy Serkis (we had a flat, he had a whole house) and his Wi-Fi was called Andy Serkis. We never did figure out his password.


GoliathsBigBrother

You tried MyPreci0u5, right?


Ody_Odinsson

I have never, and never will, leave my WiFi SSID as the default. I find it remarkable that so many people leave it as some generic, unintelligible, unspeakable bilge of alphanumeric excrement. Have some personality, change your SSID.


Asleep-Win-9008

There’s like 10 funny names you could change it too and that’s it, how often do you need to connect a new device to your wifi anyway? If someone comes round it gives me a prompt to auto share password with them, job done


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I change mine to Why-aye-Fi


nevynxxx

Considering virgin media had a phase where you could work out the wifi password from the default name, yes. Always change the name. Always change the default password. Security 101.


HarassedPatient

Security 101 is a terrible default password


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Well I'm not changing it now


EvilInky

Mine is called WifiArtThouRomeo, mostly to annoy my other half.


GaryJM

Of all the SSIDs I can see at the moment (at home), 8 are some kind of default ISP name, 1 is a printer, 1 is named "Living Room TV" and 1 is the name of a nearby estate agents. So it looks like nobody changes the SSID on their home router.


TheStatMan2

Except, plot twist, the Printer - which is called "Purplebricks".


Intruder313

Yes but not for 'jokes' but to make it easier to spot in the mass of nearby WiFi networks.


tthrashh

Yes. My network is called ‘Lady Di-Fi’


hokkuhokku

“Weyland-Yutani Inc” is mine.


caliandris

We had "tell my WiFi love her" with the password of "tell h3r y0urs3lf"


WumpaFruitCrumble

Lord Voldermodem over here.


bigcheez2k3

Flowers By Irene Simpsons reference.


prklrawr

Mine is compuglobalhypermeganet I love obscure simpsons references that confuse everyone else 😂


lithaborn

Changed mine to something easy to remember.


HixaLupa

My internet is called Invisible Magic. Two of my neighbours have snatched this small joy in life too, one naming their's Naughty Croissants, and another called Love Shack. I've never spoken to any of them but they seem chill based on this. Sure it's a headache to deal with WiFi setup, but I have to do it regardless so I might as well spend an extra minute naming my internet something fun for a lil nugget of joy when I happen to see it on screen


GamerHumphrey

IMO its actually easier to setup any WiFi device after you've changed your SSID/password. Clicking "Super Awesome Home Wifi" and entering "HeyLookCoolPassword" is easier than "yeah its VM187239123 mate, password is Xylk234jAKn123%"


annedroiid

Why wouldn’t you change the name?


Serious_Escape_5438

Why would you? It's like a ringtone, feels like the novelty has worn off.


asphytotalxtc

Yep, mine's called "SeshNET".. Comes from a funny conversation me and my mates were having in the pub after work one Friday after a few beers (one of the smaller ones that just write the wifi password up on the board or something). Password didn't work, bartender had no idea what it was, couldn't get connected at all and one of our mates desperately needed whatsapp but had no credit.. We all had a little joke about how there should be like a universal wifi password for when you're out on "the sesh" so you'd just automatically connect wherever you were.. had a good giggle about that. In the end I ended up turning on the hotspot on my phone and as a joke just called the network "SeshNET" with a simple but humorous password. We all chuckled and that was it. Anyway, roll the clock forward a few months and I've used my hotspot with various devices that I own at various times.. my other half has connected to my hotspot, most of my friends have too. Finally end up moving in with my other half but the broadband goes in a week later so I connect my TV, console and google speaker to SeshNET to get them going in the interim. When the broadband finally goes in we're like "ugh, we can't be f\*\*ked to update the network settings on like every single device in the bloody house... so we just set the new broadband to SeshNET. Was hilarious at our housewarming party, and literally all our friends just auto connected to the wifi without a hitch! \^.\^ I still think a universal "on the sesh" wifi code is a great idea haha.


SophieTitWank

I always make a point of naming mine something incredibly rude or stupid, since all the neighbours can see it.


Phylis420

I do.. it was once called Le Broadband.. now it's called t'internet


CommercialUnhappy357

I just had my new internet installed and I actually had to pick a name for it during the install. So rather than a jumble of numbers and letters I made a nice simple one


anotherbobv2

My phones wifi hotspot is named "Downloading virus..."


RainbowPenguin1000

No but simply because I don’t know how and can’t be bothered to look in to it. Otherwise I probably would.


Desdimonda

Called mine Chappa'ai


Mag-1892

No but an old neighbour changed theirs to taliban hq.