Ours is Galactica plus some numbers that have meaning to us. After we moved in and set ours up, one of our neighbors changed theirs to Intergalactic Monitoring System. I think they're trying to out-geek us or something.
At first I was lazy and called it Network. Then I moved and changed it to Revenge of Network. Old router died so I bought a new one and renamed it Son of Network. After that I moved again and for the last 7 years it's been Network: The Awakening. I'm going to be moving again soon and will be changing it to Network: The Early Years.
Mine is Nacho Wireless. Because if someone else is reading it, it's not theirs. Plus, nachos are delicious.
A friend has named his something like "FBI Surveillance Van D134". That's ok, but the best is when someone names a myfi like that. I have heard clueless people have actual discussions about the FBI Surveillance Wi-Fi that pops up in their neighborhood in the evenings and then goes away but keeps coming back, and wondering which neighbor they're checking up on.
@djslack@jqubed At my last apartment, there were three people with variants of the "FBI surveillance van" all within range of each other. Or I was living next to criminals. Or I was under suspicion?
I have a friend who was getting the WiFi set up. The tech said "What do you want your network name to be?" and he said "whatever" - "What do you want your password to be?" "idontreallycare" ...and thus it became so.
@Collin1000 First generation Asian man on why his name is Ollie Olafson: "At immigration, they asked my name and I clearly told them 'Sam Ting.' Ollie was the name of the guy in front of me."
@Collin1000 Hit the gas station today to cash in a lottery ticket. Coincidentally it paid $4 and two of the lovely heat-lamp preserved pork ribless sandwiches were $3 plus tax. Nom. And I got four copper pennies and a bicentennial quarter in change, so I also bought a power ball ticket....
Always secured (most recently even running WPA2 Enterprise with a Radius server requiring login). The first one (with the fabled WRT54-G router running DD-WRT) was 'OpenRoad' just because I liked the sound of it. We set up 'bombastic' when I borrowed a crappy TP-Link from work when the WRT54-G got fried. Also had 'motherroad' for a while.
Currently pumping out 'xfinitywifi' because Comcast pissed us the hell off with their leaching piggyback BS on our 'required replacement' cable modem that kept putting out its beacon on whatever channel we changed our home access point to use.
My First one, was "skynet", Then it went to "Slitheen"(password "Raxacoricofallapatorius"), then, I forget what (also had the SSID broadcast turned off), but Currently I have "Earlynet", both here and at my uncle's house. (used the exact same settings, incl. the same password.)
My Sister's in-laws have a small Family potato Farm, and Her hubby has Personalized "TATER" Plates on his Truck, so i set theirs up as "spudweb"
and then there's my one buddy's mom(Vicki), she would never be on their network, she always had her laptop and stuff on her Neighbor's unsecured network. so for the last 3-4 years theirs has been "USE THIS ONE VICKI!!!!!!!!!!!"
@smyle, @SSteve, I only Noticed the Spud Webb thing after i named the network. and sorry i still do not get the "spudderweb" thing. are you some how refrencing a spider web? I simply chose spudweb becasue it was the first potato+internet punny name that sprang to mind. I guess i could have gone with "Taternet", but I didn't.
This is a reference to a very fond memory from a troubled night. My grandmother (maternal) had passed away. My brother, wife, and myself went to my parents house to be with the family. As the hours passed, the 3 of us started playing cards with my dad. Emotions were running high and sleep was overdue. At one point, my dad looked down at the winter-themed table cover we were playing on as it was being pulled and scrunched from our movements. He exclaimed "that snowman just winked at me!". The rest of us looked at one another, very confused, and then started laughing uncontrollably and playfully teased my dad. The Winking Snowman has stuck and I use it to fondly poke my dad every chance I get.
"Black Alchemy's Fake AP generates thousands of counterfeit 802.11b access points. Hide in plain sight amongst Fake AP's cacophony of beacon frames. As part of a honeypot or as an instrument of your site security plan, Fake AP confuses Wardrivers, NetStumblers, Script Kiddies, and other undesirables." -blackalchemy http://faculty.ccri.edu/jbernardini/JB-Website/ETEK1500/LinuxTools/FakeAPMain.htm
I have some horrible neighbors so I name my wifi "the people who live at (Street Address) are complete assholes". (Or some variant depending on my mood.)
Since I am Charlie Brown all grown up, my network, computer, printers, xbox, etc, are all Peanuts-related. The passwords on the other hand are not. They are all guest. Because no one will ever think of that.
(also for S&Gs if you are an Archer fan and got the previous joke, visit here, u/n Krieger, pw guest)
I used to give my routers Hebrew transliterations (chesed is probably my favorite) that had special significance for me. And for the sake of security, I wouldn't ever broadcast the name. And then I got a router that for whatever reason it was a hassle to change the name and just gave up on the whole business. When we got our Verizon fiber box, I accepted the whole damn thing--including their password, which is hella cryptic. I figure this means that I'm vulnerable to being hacked by a Verizon employee, but I assume that was the case anyway.
I live way out in a rural area just off a state highway. When I first set it up years ago, it was probably the only wifi signal for several miles. I kept getting people stopping in my driveway to try to connect, but it was password protected. One day when I went out to check the mail, a guy stopped and asked if the wifi was mine. When I said yes, he said something like: I understand why you have it password protected, but just tell me, please - what the hell does "Syzygy" mean?
@BassRunner4 I'm waiting for someone to comment with that disturbing "this is nuts" meme. I wouldn't do that of course. But I'm not above mentioning it.
Upon request, I set up my son's dorm-room router as "Yell Penis For Password". The password is "YouYelledPenis". (I really wish wifi existed when I was in college).
As a storm chaser, I use mifi to stream live video from my vehicle and to get live radar. I name that one "FBI Surveillance Vehicle #2". So when I travel and stay at a hotel or something I'm sure it is either scary or funny to some people.
My home connections is "HIDE YO KIDS, HIDE YO WIFI"
WOPR has been my SSID since I began broadcasting one.
NOYDB = None of your damn business.
My ISP is Cox Communications, so I have aptly named our SSID "WomenAlwaysTalkAboutOurCox". Clever, I know.
There's a 'WTF' and a ' Connecting' in my building which is pretty clever. Mine is a deity of flight.
I... uh.... don't have Internet.
@MsELizardBeth So how'd you post this comment then?
@dashcloud magic.
Sorry, "I don't have a home wifi network " may be more accurate.
Me too. I dropped my uverse because the price keeps going up. A few days later I realized I may as well unplug the router. :D
Ours is Galactica plus some numbers that have meaning to us. After we moved in and set ours up, one of our neighbors changed theirs to Intergalactic Monitoring System. I think they're trying to out-geek us or something.
"L337 \/1RU5 Ph4(70R'/"
I used to rock SeriesOfTubes, back in college, but since I graduated to a dual band router I blast LegalizeIt and Hydrogen out into the airwaves.
My neighbors proselytize with theirs: All4Him. I try to avoid eye contact.
@Misha227 Good for them.
@Misha227 Porn for Jesus?
@Misha227 668NeighborOfTheBeast
@Misha227 Yeah, if you're not taking advantage of this opportunity, Jesus is disappointed with you. @Headly's suggestion is a good one.
At first I was lazy and called it Network. Then I moved and changed it to Revenge of Network. Old router died so I bought a new one and renamed it Son of Network. After that I moved again and for the last 7 years it's been Network: The Awakening. I'm going to be moving again soon and will be changing it to Network: The Early Years.
@DaveInSoCal I always enjoy a good reboot. :thumbsup
@DaveInSoCal Is your router mad as hell and not going to take it anymore?
Mine is Nacho Wireless. Because if someone else is reading it, it's not theirs. Plus, nachos are delicious.
A friend has named his something like "FBI Surveillance Van D134". That's ok, but the best is when someone names a myfi like that. I have heard clueless people have actual discussions about the FBI Surveillance Wi-Fi that pops up in their neighborhood in the evenings and then goes away but keeps coming back, and wondering which neighbor they're checking up on.
@djslack Now that's the way to do it if you're going to go with the now-overdone FBI Surveilance Van.
@djslack @jqubed At my last apartment, there were three people with variants of the "FBI surveillance van" all within range of each other. Or I was living next to criminals. Or I was under suspicion?
For some reason, I designate all of my routers with the Ear designation, because in my head, a Router is listening for connections.
I like the "Bells of St John" naming style.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/03/howto-make-a-doctor-who-bells-of-st-john-style-wifi-name/
Don't forget to add _nomap to the end!
https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/1725632
@thismyusername Works for Google (or so they claim), others ignore it - there is no universal way to positively "opt out".
@mehtherfucker True, but one less data point is good, yes?
@thismyusername . . . IME just because Google says it, that don't make it so.
@thismyusername ᕳᕲᖂᗚᗛᙕᕓᖫᖭᕯ
My router is "Deep 13" and my phone is named "Satelite of Love"
@PenguinOnTheRox Before you start streaming Netflix do you always yell "Movie Sign!!"?
Pretty Fly for a Wi-Fi
I have a friend who was getting the WiFi set up. The tech said "What do you want your network name to be?" and he said "whatever" - "What do you want your password to be?" "idontreallycare" ...and thus it became so.
@Collin1000 First generation Asian man on why his name is Ollie Olafson: "At immigration, they asked my name and I clearly told them 'Sam Ting.' Ollie was the name of the guy in front of me."
The McDonalds near my house changes their SSID weekly to match promotions. Recent ones I have seen: "MonopolyIsBack" "McRibIsHere" "TryFiletOFish"
@Collin1000 I wish McRibs were there... but they're not.
@duodec Wait for pork prices to drop a bit more and they'll be back . . . http://www.theawl.com/2011/11/a-conspiracy-of-hogs-the-mcrib-as-arbitrage
@Pavlov The gas station has 'pork rib' sandwiches almost as good as the McRib. Its just a little harder to get to at lunchtime than McD would be.
@duodec You need to move. McRib was back last October and November. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/10/17/mcrib-mcdonalds-promotions-fast-food-restaurants/17450297/
@Collin1000 McRibs in October and November (and briefly in January during playoffs) are of NO use in February and March when I really want one...
@duodec You can probably freeze them for like a million years and preserve them.
@Collin1000 You probably don't even need to freeze them.
@Collin1000 Two words: Shamrock. Shake.
@Collin1000 Hit the gas station today to cash in a lottery ticket. Coincidentally it paid $4 and two of the lovely heat-lamp preserved pork ribless sandwiches were $3 plus tax. Nom. And I got four copper pennies and a bicentennial quarter in change, so I also bought a power ball ticket....
Bill Wi the Science Fi
In the past I have used "It Hz when IP" and for my guest wifi "LAN of the Free".
UncleTouchysNakedPuzzleBasement for 5 years running.
"Mypasswordispassword" What do you mean that is not a good name??
Always secured (most recently even running WPA2 Enterprise with a Radius server requiring login). The first one (with the fabled WRT54-G router running DD-WRT) was 'OpenRoad' just because I liked the sound of it. We set up 'bombastic' when I borrowed a crappy TP-Link from work when the WRT54-G got fried. Also had 'motherroad' for a while.
Currently pumping out 'xfinitywifi' because Comcast pissed us the hell off with their leaching piggyback BS on our 'required replacement' cable modem that kept putting out its beacon on whatever channel we changed our home access point to use.
"Honeypot", "US Dept of Justice", and my current one is "Press Alt F4 to Connect".
Mine is 'YourCreepyNeighbor.'
My wi-fi was called "Get a Virus" for several years, but I recently changed it to "Vatican WiFi"
@phatmass Encouraging the pre-teens to connect in your area?
My First one, was "skynet", Then it went to "Slitheen"(password "Raxacoricofallapatorius"), then, I forget what (also had the SSID broadcast turned off), but Currently I have "Earlynet", both here and at my uncle's house. (used the exact same settings, incl. the same password.)
My Sister's in-laws have a small Family potato Farm, and Her hubby has Personalized "TATER" Plates on his Truck, so i set theirs up as "spudweb"
and then there's my one buddy's mom(Vicki), she would never be on their network, she always had her laptop and stuff on her Neighbor's unsecured network.
so for the last 3-4 years theirs has been "USE THIS ONE VICKI!!!!!!!!!!!"
@earlyre Not "spudderweb"? I am disappoint.
@SSteve You missed the reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spud_Webb I am disappoint.
@smyle, @SSteve, I only Noticed the Spud Webb thing after i named the network. and sorry i still do not get the "spudderweb" thing. are you some how refrencing a spider web? I simply chose spudweb becasue it was the first potato+internet punny name that sprang to mind. I guess i could have gone with "Taternet", but I didn't.
@earlyre Yeah, spudderweb<->spiderweb seemed funny at midnight but not so much in the light of day. And I also had no clue who Spud Webb was.
@earlyre My first router's name was Skynet! Twin routers.
@grum was yours a WRT54G as well?
in the past, one was named "you_suck"
I've always rocked "Death2Capitalism". It's subtle.
I set my Dad's WiFi network up as WinkingSnowman.
This is a reference to a very fond memory from a troubled night. My grandmother (maternal) had passed away. My brother, wife, and myself went to my parents house to be with the family. As the hours passed, the 3 of us started playing cards with my dad. Emotions were running high and sleep was overdue. At one point, my dad looked down at the winter-themed table cover we were playing on as it was being pulled and scrunched from our movements. He exclaimed "that snowman just winked at me!". The rest of us looked at one another, very confused, and then started laughing uncontrollably and playfully teased my dad. The Winking Snowman has stuck and I use it to fondly poke my dad every chance I get.
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I had my random number generator come up with that.
@SIMBM I was trying to read it for a minute before I read the rest of your comment.. I thought it was l337 speak.. haha
"Black Alchemy's Fake AP generates thousands of counterfeit 802.11b access points. Hide in plain sight amongst Fake AP's cacophony of beacon frames. As part of a honeypot or as an instrument of your site security plan, Fake AP confuses Wardrivers, NetStumblers, Script Kiddies, and other undesirables." -blackalchemy
http://faculty.ccri.edu/jbernardini/JB-Website/ETEK1500/LinuxTools/FakeAPMain.htm
I've named mine after planets our moons from star wars. Cheesy I know but still like it.
I named mine Zion after the last place humans survive in the movie the Matrix
Mine's "Pretty fly for a WIFI" because I like bad, dated puns.
"Get off mah nuts". Inspired by the times I lived in a crappy apartment and everyone named their wifi some variant of "vagina".
I have some horrible neighbors so I name my wifi "the people who live at (Street Address) are complete assholes". (Or some variant depending on my mood.)
Unsecured WAP in my neighborhood is called "Private" . . . I chuckled
Prostitution Surveillance Van
Since I am Charlie Brown all grown up, my network, computer, printers, xbox, etc, are all Peanuts-related. The passwords on the other hand are not. They are all guest. Because no one will ever think of that.
(also for S&Gs if you are an Archer fan and got the previous joke, visit here, u/n Krieger, pw guest)
I used to give my routers Hebrew transliterations (chesed is probably my favorite) that had special significance for me. And for the sake of security, I wouldn't ever broadcast the name. And then I got a router that for whatever reason it was a hassle to change the name and just gave up on the whole business. When we got our Verizon fiber box, I accepted the whole damn thing--including their password, which is hella cryptic. I figure this means that I'm vulnerable to being hacked by a Verizon employee, but I assume that was the case anyway.
mine is: watching you
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Mine is: infected_BACON
You want to connect because its bacon, but is it worth it?
I live way out in a rural area just off a state highway. When I first set it up years ago, it was probably the only wifi signal for several miles. I kept getting people stopping in my driveway to try to connect, but it was password protected. One day when I went out to check the mail, a guy stopped and asked if the wifi was mine. When I said yes, he said something like: I understand why you have it password protected, but just tell me, please - what the hell does "Syzygy" mean?
A tribute to The Hobbit & LOTR we named ours Bag End.
@BassRunner4 I'm waiting for someone to comment with that disturbing "this is nuts" meme. I wouldn't do that of course. But I'm not above mentioning it.
"Party Hard" - in honor of Andrew WK.
Upon request, I set up my son's dorm-room router as "Yell Penis For Password". The password is "YouYelledPenis".
(I really wish wifi existed when I was in college).
nachocheese
"Identity Thief"
As a storm chaser, I use mifi to stream live video from my vehicle and to get live radar. I name that one "FBI Surveillance Vehicle #2". So when I travel and stay at a hotel or something I'm sure it is either scary or funny to some people.
My home connections is "HIDE YO KIDS, HIDE YO WIFI"
In every house I've lived in, I have had a name for the house. My router is (re)named accordingly:
House Name -- Router Name
Sigma Phi Tau -- COLLEGEPARTYWOOOOO
The Lost Woods -- Skull Kid
The Zanarkand Ruins -- Tidus?
Our house's name is Hell House, so of course the router name is Portal to Hell.
I've seriously considered naming one of mine "Penny, get your own wifi".
Take my WiFi, please.