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Do you have a silly name for your WiFi router ??

37 replies

FinallyFluid · 09/05/2021 16:05

Ours is detector van as we installed it around the time the BBC were on big TV licence push. Grin

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Nancylovesthecock · 09/05/2021 16:06

My friends is 'I'm sorry but we don't have the facilities'

ImNotWhoYouThinkIam · 09/05/2021 16:06

Ours is called NachoWiFi Grin

Changechangychange · 09/05/2021 16:08

Ours was “why are you all on BT?” For a long time. Because literally every other wifi within range was “BT_Hub24433”

VienneseWhirligig · 09/05/2021 16:10

Mine on my phone hotspot is "get your own bastard wifi" because I commute and once got asked by a cheeky sod if their kid could share my hotspot so they could download a game Grin

FinallyFluid · 09/05/2021 16:17

@VienneseWhirligig

Mine on my phone hotspot is "get your own bastard wifi" because I commute and once got asked by a cheeky sod if their kid could share my hotspot so they could download a game Grin
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ErrolTheDragon · 09/05/2021 16:24

@Changechangychange

Ours was “why are you all on BT?” For a long time. Because literally every other wifi within range was “BT_Hub24433”
Ours is called BTHUB- .

It's not a BTHUB router, it's one which has much better security. DHs logic is that if there's an attempt access it assuming it's a BTHUB , it won't get very far and they'll have wasted their time.

MrsFionaCharming · 09/05/2021 17:08

Everyone in our town is up in arms about us possibly getting an Aldi. So ours is AldiFreeWifi

FoxyTheFox · 09/05/2021 17:12

5G paranoia was rife in our village so DH changed ours to "5Gcitizenmonitorstation".

Usually it's named "getorfmy_LAN".

AlanThePig · 09/05/2021 17:15

LANdo Norris and LAN Solo

IceSwallowCome · 09/05/2021 17:21

Compuglobalhypermeganet

Fluffycloudland77 · 09/05/2021 17:24

Ours was child protection unit for a long time.

Next doors school of parenting is the our kids won’t keep n touch as adults.

mouse26 · 09/05/2021 17:39

One of my neighbours is 'tell my wi-fi love her'

tiredanddangerous · 09/05/2021 17:40

I don't know how to change my routers name. This is now making me very sad.

36degrees · 09/05/2021 17:51

Ours is Searching...

TheresNothingIWantMore · 09/05/2021 17:52

Mine used to be

Tell my Wi-Fi love her

When we changed providers though we just stuck with the default one

MelissaVonStressel · 09/05/2021 18:40

Colin

Used to be "wecanstillhearJohnsdrums" because John next door was constantly drumming. We've had a few joke ones but now I'm sticking with Colin because he's got 28 devices attached and I'm not reattaching all of them. And also because I am amused when the kids ask what's up with Colin or where has Colin gone.

newnortherner111 · 09/05/2021 19:13

No, just have silly names for intimate body parts which I am never going to share.

LBOCS2 · 09/05/2021 19:25

Ours is "PrettyFlyForAWi-Fi"

I can't take the credit - I read it somewhere years ago - but it does make me giggle.

megletthesecond · 09/05/2021 19:28

tired I don't know either. I thought I'd done it once but it didn't work.

sanityisamyth · 09/05/2021 19:30

@mouse26

One of my neighbours is 'tell my wi-fi love her'

🤣

ImInStealthMode · 09/05/2021 19:33

A friend used to have PrettyFlyForAWIFI.

Our neighbours used to call theirs 'Total Slags' (Reader, they were Total Slags).

An old friend who lived in a small friendly block of apartments had hers unlocked and named it 'Free Wifi In Exchange For Cake'. Her neighbours would regularly drop off cake Grin

Ours is the default one but now I feel like we should change it.

1990s · 09/05/2021 19:36

One of my neighbours is "LordVoldemodem"

safariboot · 09/05/2021 20:00

No puns, just a name taken from a game. I set a custom name so that next time I change internet provider I don't need to connect everything again.

Piemam · 10/05/2021 11:14

How do you change the router name? I must know!

SpiritAndSpice · 10/05/2021 11:16

"The Best Thing in the Zoo"