Wi-Fi Hotspot Names

Sooooo, many years ago I was out and about, searched for a WiFi network and found one called “Definitely not Wi-Fi”. It made me smile.

Since then, every time I’ve had a new phone, I’ve set my Wi-Fi hotspot network name to something that I thought would make other people smile.

I’ve bounced between a few, “Police Surveillance Van” the week a house on our road was raided. A few years back, I had a Huawei with “Chinese Spy Network Node #1337”.

Last year, I started commuting on the train and decided to go with “British Transport Police FIN527364” and then forgot about it.

A few months later, I was selling something on Facebook Marketplace. A guy agrees to buy it, but sends his friend to collect it and tries the “ohh no, I’ve driven 30mins and he gave me £20 less than he should have done…”

I play along, “ohh no, here’s my bank details, you can transfer the rest”

He supposedly had no internet, so couldn’t possibly do that…

“No problem, connect to my house Wi-Fi, it’s the TALKTALKXXX one”

His phone supposedly never connects to TalkTalk networks…

“No problem, connect to my phones Wi-Fi hotspot” - completely forgetting I’d changed the name.

Like magic, as soon as he saw the name, he found the missing £20 and left.