You know that Reddit is a treasure trove for just about anything - from serious questions about life to seeking workout advice to solving quantum physics problems to… funny WiFi names. Yup, that’s right, there’s a Reddit thread prompting people to share the funniest WiFi names they’ve seen, and well, it’s an incomparably joyous ride to read it! But what’s real joy if it isn’t shared with you, our dear readers?
Here’s what we did - we read each and every submission mentioning the best WiFi names that people saw (or named their own routers!) in this AskReddit thread, gathered the absolute best gems, and made a list so you could enjoy this rollercoaster ride of unique WiFi names. And yeah, you might be thinking something along the lines that even the best WiFi names are just what they are - names for an electronic device - but this is where you are wrong! They are a real reflection of their owner’s soul, a pearl of wisdom, and a cracking joke for anyone who sees them.
And it really doesn’t matter if you’re a punny names sort of a fellow or an all-about-pop-culture person, or even if you’re geeky and very proud of it; there’s always the perfect WiFi name for everyone. Still uncertain? Well, in that case, there’s only one thing left that might convince you, and it is to scroll on down below, check out the hilarious WiFi names, and, hopefully, you’ll find the very same joy as we did when reading them for the very first (and then a second, and then a third) time!
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"I was in the back of a bus and the wifi name was "Say Chicken Nuggets."
I yelled "CHICKEN NUGGETS!" to the front of the bus. Someone replied "NO SPACES!"
I didn't get it at first but after like 5 minutes I was like "wait...", put in "chickennuggets" for the password and I was in."
"Guy walks into a bar and asks the bartender, 'what’s the WiFi password?'
The bartender replies, 'you need to buy a beer first.'
So the guy buys a beer, and asks again, 'what’s the WiFi password?'
The bartender replies, 'you need to buy a beer first, all lowercase, no spaces or punctuation.'"
"I once renamed by Bluetooth "Aucun périphérique trouvé" which translates to "No device detected." Then 2 weeks later spent 45min cursing my phone for not being detectable, then it hit me, I've played myself."
"We're not allowed to have our own routers on campus, so I named mine 'AT&T Mobile Hotspot'."
"'Wedonthavewifi.'
Password was 'idontknow.'
Hilarious when anyone asked him how to get on his WiFi. It was like a vaudeville routine."
"I caused a small family panic when I named it "disconnected"."
"I install internet etc. for a living.
Best one I ever came up with was for the DeltaPhi sorority, DeltaWiPhi, they loved it."
"My neighbors are rude jerks, so I call my network "Free Comcast [neighbors address]" and I obviously password protect it.
My wish is that it drives them mad that there's internet with their address that they can't access...
It's the small things in life."
"YoukidsgetoffmyLAN."
"I'm in a military barracks and my wifi name is 'NCIS surveillance van'."
'"$3.99 per minute' - that's my personal hotspot name always."
"Mine's pretty classic: "Pretty Fly for a Wi-Fi"."
"Mine is Panic! At the Cisco."
"IsThisTheKrustyKrab. The password was 'nothisispatrick'."
"My dad named our wifi Money Pit growing up. He was reluctant to have to pay for wifi as opposed to our dial up. He's gone now but I still name my own wifi Money Pit because of him. It makes me happy."
"My SO changed our to "loading..." I'll never get back the time I put in to trying to fix it."
"When my grandma was getting her WiFi set up, we asked her what she'd say to people who asked for her WiFi. She said that she would tell them to "Go to Hell", so that's now her password. So whenever people ask for the WiFi password, she tells them, "Go to Hell"."
"For the longest time, I had my phones hotspot name as 'Police Surveillance Tricycle'.
Turns out, its a good way to get some people paranoid and have others amused over the whole thing when having it active during classes."
"Mordor
It was password protected.
One does not simply log into Mordor."
"Was at a church and some neighbour had “Jesus has left the building."
Hershie23 said:
"Tell My WiFi Love Her."
maleorderbride replied:
"I kinda wish the person responsible for that router updated the name regularly to fill everyone else in on how their relationship was going:
'Tell My WiFi Need More Space.'"
'Tell My WiFi Want Another Kid But Only If She's Okay With It.'''
'Tell My WiFi Want A Divorce.'"
"I'm a fan of 'Bill Wi, the Science Fi.'"
"'Silence of the LAN' is a top contender for me."
"I named mine “searching” it was super effective."
"I set my house network as "McDonald's Free WiFi". My mother thought I legitimately got a WiFi plan from McDonald's. There is no McDonald's nearby."
"I had a roommate that named ours Batlan and Login. I always thought that was clever."
For those wondering, this is a reference to Clark Kent and his faithful photog Jeremy.
"I was at an airport and someone’s hotspot name was 'yell Nice rack for password'."
"In my last apartment I named my wifi New England Clam Router, always liked that one."
"HP-LaserJet-P1102W or any printer name really."
"Cisco Inferno."
I see a Dante reference I upvote! Edit: Maybe it’s an OBLIQUE Dante reference…
"I was in room 132 at my college dorm. I named it "Room 134's WiFi"."
"Super slow.
When I hovered over the wifi button in Windows, the pop-up said "Super slow Internet Access". I thought that was pretty cool."
"Wu-Tang LAN."
"A house on my street has one named “Hagrid’s Hut” and we passed a house once with one named “Get Your Own Damn WiFi”."
"Malware.exe."
"Mine has been "Nigerian Scam Network" for years."
At a gym name your hotspot “yell STEROIDS ARE SHRINKING YOUR RAISINS MAN for password”
"When my brother was in the Air Force reserve, I went to his house one day and say his WiFi name was 'LAN of the free'."
"I like mine. I have a dual-band router with 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz. They are named:
Bees?
Bees!"
At a veterinarian’s office name your hotspot “yell A VAN FROM THE DELI PULLS UP OUT BACK DAILY for password”
"My family were staying in Philadelphia for a couple days and were staying in a Airbnb apartment. One WiFi said “I know apartment number is an illegal Airbnb”. Other were just things like “potato salad” and random s**t."
Seven_Dx7 said:
"My wifi password for a while was 'ontherouter'.
Hilarity ensued. The following password was 'itdidntchange'."
wazzledudes replied:
"My buddy has "thereisnopassword" as his password for the same reason."
mygoldenretrieverissmarterthanyourhonorstudent is a perennial favorite.
"Hide yo kids hide yo WiFi."
"I live across the street from a church. Someone in our neighborhood had "Christianity_Is_A_Cult."
Around the holidays they tend to switch it up."
My parents are super Christian and I once changed their wifi name to "satan666" because I knew they had no idea how to change it back.
"My younger brother set his mobile hotspot to "Hot Singles in Your Area" and I'm never gonna get over it."
"My neighbors in college had one called “Uncle Touchy’s puzzle basement”."
"FBI Surveillance vehicle."
'"A senha é o telefone' which translates to "The password is the phone number". Turns out the password was in fact the phone number."
At the army recruitment office name your hotspot “yell REAL MEN JOIN THE NAVY for password”
"Mine is "The LAN of Milk and Honey"."
"My dads a huge fan of the matrix and calls every router we’ve ever had the Nebuchadnezzar."
"WiFightWhenItsClearWeHaveSuchAStrongConnection?"
At the gun range name your hotspot “yell ARE YOU COMPENSATING FOR SOMETHING for password”
"Password invalid, retry."
"Im under your bed" and "I look at you while you are asleep."
"Troy and Abed in the Modem."
"'Chipotle Guest' there’s no chipotle near by."
At McDonald’s name your hotspot “yell I THINK I JUST SWALLOWED A ROACH for password”
"My phone’s hotspot is 'Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine'."
At the doctor’s office name your hotspot “yell I HAVE HERPES BUT ITS NOT CONTAGIOUS for password”
"Mine is Aperture Science. I figure people who get it will chuckle, and those who don't, will just think someone has a business out of their place. I generally pair it with naming one of my electronics GlaDOS too."
"Chance the Router."
"Disconnected Connected, secured."
"I was driving around Europe the summer of 2008 and the only way I had to access the internet was through internet cafes or connecting my laptop to random open wifi's. One night I parked in a somewhat secluded area to sleep and got horny so I grabbed my laptop and did a wifi search. Found one at it was named "Sei nicht hier" meaning "Don't stay here" or "Don't be here"..
Noped really fast away from that spot..."
"My favorite is 'it's on the back of the router'."
"'Go Back to California' when I had just moved to Texas (and had CA plates on my car still)."
"Password is ProtectYaNet."
"NotaDoctor.99."
I like to name my WIFI after, well, killer robots mostly. The first was HAL9000. I don't recall the exact order but it has also been Cylon, skynet, Cyberdyne Systems, Gort, Agimus, and currently it is Weyland-Yutani Corp. I am pretty sure there were one or two more in that vein. Once I had a couple of old wifi routers I wasn't using and I had several of them all broadcasting some of those SSID's at the same time. Funny thing is I just installed a new router, new SSID and now I read this post. Inspired.
"A neighbour of mine had theirs called '2 girls, 1 router'."
"My ISP is Cox so do with that what you will."
My step dad named his CoxSuckers...he did not like that they were best option at the time.
"8Hz WAN IP."
Mine is "Alien Spacecraft." Whenever I log into my work computer it says, "Connected to Alien Spacecraft" and it gives me a lift every morning.
Back when I lived with roommates, my roommated named our wifi network "Blackbird" because she liked the Beatles song. The signal was basically nonexistent on the floor my bedroom was on, so we got a repeater, and I named the repeater network "Mockingbird". 😁
My neighbor's wifi name is Luca's House. Luca is her cat.
My dad named ours "Hildegard" because he thinks it's hilarious - gotta admit, it kinda grew on me... But the faces of people who ask for my wifi are the best
I was having issues with raccoons for years, so I named my WiFi "I41WelcomeOurNewRaccoonOverlords". (I, for one, welcome our new raccoon overlords) a Simpsons reference.
i named my bluetooth noise-canceling headphones "Do not speak to me"
I need a good WiFi name for my network that has something to do with cats, any ideas?
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My hotspot is named “Yell ‘OH MY GOD, THEY KILLED KENNY!’ for password.” The password is “thosebastards!”
The lady across the road has ‘SashatheDashi’ as hers and that’s how I know her cute (and loud) daschund’s name.
There's someone in my neighborhood who changes their wifi name to sexual fetishes
If I move out, I might name my router "Old MacDonald had a LAN" and make my password "eieio"
Whenever I visit a friend's place and connect to their wifi, one of the other networks that comes up is named "Lesbians nearby." I am yet to find those particular lesbians but I love their WiFi name.
When I was younger, one of my neighbors had their SSID set to this-s**t-aint-free.
I'm going to name mine "I am on a curiosity voyage" and the password will be "ineedmypaddles".
Makes me think of this cursed image tweet and I only now noticed the wifi's named goodluck because you'll need it for the super long password 😭 https://twitter.com/mightbecursed/status/1341614968756551681
My internet name is AppaandMomo, the name not the password. The password is weirder lol
Someone in my neighborhood's Wifi is "arbysfordinner" and guys I seriously want to know who this is
Mine is "Alien Spacecraft." Whenever I log into my work computer it says, "Connected to Alien Spacecraft" and it gives me a lift every morning.
Back when I lived with roommates, my roommated named our wifi network "Blackbird" because she liked the Beatles song. The signal was basically nonexistent on the floor my bedroom was on, so we got a repeater, and I named the repeater network "Mockingbird". 😁
My neighbor's wifi name is Luca's House. Luca is her cat.
My dad named ours "Hildegard" because he thinks it's hilarious - gotta admit, it kinda grew on me... But the faces of people who ask for my wifi are the best
I was having issues with raccoons for years, so I named my WiFi "I41WelcomeOurNewRaccoonOverlords". (I, for one, welcome our new raccoon overlords) a Simpsons reference.
i named my bluetooth noise-canceling headphones "Do not speak to me"
I need a good WiFi name for my network that has something to do with cats, any ideas?
Metafelinatron, Tubacats, Furballexpress, Mogbox, ScratchingPost, Electronip
Load More Replies... My hotspot is named “Yell ‘OH MY GOD, THEY KILLED KENNY!’ for password.” The password is “thosebastards!”
The lady across the road has ‘SashatheDashi’ as hers and that’s how I know her cute (and loud) daschund’s name.
There's someone in my neighborhood who changes their wifi name to sexual fetishes
If I move out, I might name my router "Old MacDonald had a LAN" and make my password "eieio"
Whenever I visit a friend's place and connect to their wifi, one of the other networks that comes up is named "Lesbians nearby." I am yet to find those particular lesbians but I love their WiFi name.
When I was younger, one of my neighbors had their SSID set to this-s**t-aint-free.
I'm going to name mine "I am on a curiosity voyage" and the password will be "ineedmypaddles".
Makes me think of this cursed image tweet and I only now noticed the wifi's named goodluck because you'll need it for the super long password 😭 https://twitter.com/mightbecursed/status/1341614968756551681
My internet name is AppaandMomo, the name not the password. The password is weirder lol
Someone in my neighborhood's Wifi is "arbysfordinner" and guys I seriously want to know who this is
