to rename my WiFi hinting for the neighbours to shut up

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Help!

Living next door to shouty neighbours. Male, quiet by nature, car salesman, tight as arseholes, overcharged me on replacement fence panels recently; I let it go in case he simply couldn't add up and didn't want to make a fuss over £50. When he shouts back it all goes silent. The female is very shouty at the two kids under four and screams like a harridan at the male who WFH. 16-year-old DD, who lives with her dad, is as quiet as a mouse.

It's the female, really. She shouts at him and at the kids as her default mode of communication and yells for her DSD to help. I tend to ignore it, I'm in and out of the house, but my own DD was WFmyH for a week while I was away and said it was daily.

Need a WiFi name to subtly, or not tell them to shut up, help me pls, these are the best I can do, but I know MNers have brilliant usernames and can do wayyyy better

WarOfTheRoses
ShutTheFup

I don’t think I have looked at Wi-Fi networks in at least 5 years I don’t think they will even notice

NextDoorToShoutyArsehole

If your neighbour is shouting daily at 2 tiny children loud enough for neighbours to be disturbed, I’d be calling social services. Those kids will be living in fear.

Definitely put
stopfuckingshoutingwecanallhearyou!

Shut the WiFi up.

The walls have ears

I like this one is she angry shouting or normal volume shouting? My daughter talks at shouting volume. It's her indoors voice.

This is such a mumsnet passive aggressiveness that doesn't work in real life. Everyone's phones and bits and bobs are already connected to their wifi. When is the last time you looked at the wifi networks available in your house?

Why would they notice , I’ve never looked at my neighbours WiFi passwords

I changed my phone to FBI surveillance and my Bluetooth to Operation Yewtree. It was a few years ago now but I like to think it confused anyone trying to get on the Internet in Spoons!

One of neighbours WiFi was called-mycatwillbiteyou, they weren't lying he was a vicious little bugger who we all avoided 😂

This is the worst type of passive aggressive behaviour. My neighbour did this to me (shutthatdogup) and guess what, I didn’t know! It was my other neighbour who saw it and screenshot it to me and she only saw it because her wifi went down and she had to do a reboot, no idea how long it had been up for but I rarely look at wifi networks so I didn’t see it.

Let me tell you that it didn’t make relations any better! If you have a problem just speak to them.

Can you teach me how to do this please?

I want to change mine to "DogsDontBelongInFlats"

You only change the router don't you? Not individual devices connected to it

wishing-4-the-sound-of-silence
hoping-4-the-pipes-of-peace
We-are-not-deaf-you-might-be-though exchange you for house no if relevant
Need-more-ear-plugs

And then all the things need to connect to the :new" router. I used to change ours quite frequently - if you change the name, people can't autoconnect anymore - which is handy when you have 4 lazy teenagers and want to motivate them to do something. But not so handy for the 23 other devices also attached! Still haven't managed to re-connect the bloody washing machine.

Wait, what? You only need to change the network name once!

Edit: didn’t realise this turned off auto-connect

Please do this 😂

At least do so if talking to her about it fails to yield the result. Perhaps if you wish to do so in a passive aggressive way, record it and play it back so it can be heard.

All these people that never check their 'connections' and other 'stuff', no wonder people get scammed, done over, etc - far too trusting of their 'unit' of connection.

Yep - I'm a boring bastard, me - I always double check everything automatically sent to me whether it be paper or electronic and the other stuff as I go along. Not always immediately, but I follow the applicable stuff. A throwback to pre-IT days when I'd do this monthly balancing ins and outs against my statements - cheques written, payments received and bills paid and due.

I always check the fine print, email addresses and even every so often the Tinternet connections in use. Am an oldish bird too.

I haven’t seen my neighbours wifi names since I connected this router 6 years ago

Yeah this won't work. Their phones etc will automatically connect to their own WiFi, they will have no clue that you are fiddling around with yours.
Just bang on the wall or yell back. They will most likely be shocked into silence!

I always wonder how best to deal with this type of issue. E.g exactly what would you say and how. It isn't easy being upfront to people's face about their daily loud shouty voices and shouting but I'm sure other posters will have a tactful suggestion.

I'm not sure if this is tongue in cheek or you really do want to do it, but I'd hate the fallout from this if they do see it and figure it out it's them. They could become spiteful and behave worse or make for a really uncomfortable atmosphere.

How about a musical approach.

"Thehillsarealivewiththesoundofscreaming"
"Shoutshoutletitallout"
"Youmakemewannashout"
"Twistandshout"

Just tell them you can hear them