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What Did You Name Your Wi-Fi Connection?



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jon
2009-04-24 21:09:43 ET

my neighbor's wireless network used to be called "bob's a butthole."

keggity
2009-04-24 21:11:38 ET

named mine by combining my and my roommates XBL gamertags: KTronSki

odd
2009-04-24 21:11:41 ET

i called mine 'odd', my friends called theirs 'thepiggy'

Viper_Bravo
2009-04-24 21:12:02 ET

My Wi-fi is called, "YouWifeISAWhore"

Jab0
2009-04-24 21:14:46 ET

Infidelis

The landlord is a Marine. It used to be MikeyLikesIT

foo
2009-04-24 21:16:14 ET

emersonbiggguns

Red Scare
2009-04-24 21:16:35 ET

Lol, I called mine "Mother Country" and my brother called his "The Communist Connection" he he he he

scottonthepot
2009-04-24 21:21:32 ET

I named mine "Septic Tank" because I am generally full of shit.

dIFF
2009-04-24 21:31:08 ET

I named my wifi "Hey 231! Shut Up!" cause guess what? The people who live above me a re loud as hell!

loganc169
2009-04-24 21:33:15 ET

High Heeled Boys!

ryan
2009-04-24 21:34:33 ET

I have a couple...
My current is eatthisone and before it was mthrfckrassbllz

charlie
2009-04-24 21:35:41 ET

mine is called shityeah

Nurnie
2009-04-24 21:36:04 ET

Nacho Wireless Connection

just me
2009-04-24 21:36:28 ET

the dude upstairs is a drunkard and parties all the time so i called my ROUTER

>>>HARDGAY405<<<< he lives in 405 :)

CSims
2009-04-24 21:36:30 ET

'Colyn'. It is, ashamedly, a "celebrity couple" name with an excellent double meaning.

2009-04-24 21:38:35 ET

ours is named Nomynomnom

RandomGuy
2009-04-24 21:38:50 ET

"A Series of Tubes"

2009-04-24 21:40:22 ET

Not for my house, but for my best friends who was always having his internet leeched on, I setup his new APs and set them all to 'NoFreeInternet'

Justin
2009-04-24 21:40:43 ET

"Team Zissou"

keith
2009-04-24 21:41:22 ET

"Manbearpig Central"

2009-04-24 21:42:56 ET

MyPrecious - probably needs to be updated. It was cool back in the LOTR heyday.

But my wifi is precious to me.

Ryan Anderson
2009-04-24 21:43:09 ET

Dunder Mifflin

Michael
2009-04-24 21:43:52 ET

Since I have an obnoxious blue Linksys router, I called mine "Blue Comet" after the Sopranos episode.

Susan
2009-04-24 21:44:44 ET

I named mine Asialopolis a la picnicface

Benjam
2009-04-24 21:45:53 ET

Kick Awesome Wireless

Eric
2009-04-24 21:46:08 ET

Mines is "FreeWifi" my connection is password protected lol

Sphark
2009-04-24 21:47:10 ET

"Roxie," after my ferret!

ic3y
2009-04-24 21:47:14 ET

mine is the Wireless Nipple, suckle on that neighbors...

Jeremy
2009-04-24 21:47:26 ET

Lived on Catskill Ct. Named the Wifi "Crackskills". It wasn't a bad street, but not a great street either.

Frac
2009-04-24 21:51:11 ET

I called mine "FreeThinker" (i.e. http://www.ffrf.org/nontracts/freethinker.php)

2009-04-24 21:52:52 ET

I used to have "QQQQ" for my ap but now its "BIMONSCIFICON". My open wifi router for friends and whomever else is called, "camel-toe-annie".

Justin
2009-04-24 21:53:29 ET

Named mine "The Matrix"

ck
2009-04-24 21:54:19 ET

virus4you

Steve
2009-04-24 21:54:26 ET

My router is named "infected".

Not many connection attempts.

Antp
2009-04-24 21:56:41 ET

Mines Skynet, ;D

Jonathan
2009-04-24 21:57:06 ET

I named it "Taurë," which is Quenya (Tolkien Elvish) for "Forest."

str4b1smus
2009-04-24 21:57:55 ET

'Look! No Wires!' does it for me.

Jason
2009-04-24 21:58:02 ET

My "unsecured" wireless network is called Pandora Wireless =)

ben
2009-04-24 22:00:30 ET

I named mine "1337 53RV3R"

J03K1CK4SS
2009-04-24 22:01:45 ET

My old wifi name was "Format c:" but I had later changed it to "Ed's Portal" for the Akron/Family song

2009-04-24 22:03:30 ET

Mine is called Cthulhu.

b4rk13
2009-04-24 22:04:12 ET

1nt3r.net - but considering changing it to ck's 'virus4you' - genius! :)

2009-04-24 22:04:37 ET

"im screwing your daughter"

my neighbors love me.

Dave
2009-04-24 22:05:23 ET

I pick random obscure words when setting up APs for the most part. I have Cucumber at home; a former coworkers is named Porcupine, and my parents is named Mustard.

derol
2009-04-24 22:05:23 ET

coonass

Jason Boehle
2009-04-24 22:07:56 ET

Named mine 'imwatchingu'.

RedLeader
2009-04-24 22:08:11 ET

I named mine "Cunt Punch" I thought that my neighbors would appreciate it....

Groucho
2009-04-24 22:08:12 ET

My my WiFi connection is called "STINKERNET"

Steve
2009-04-24 22:11:17 ET

I named my wifi Yellowstone. All my devices are named after Nat'l Parks (yosemite, glacier, boundary_waters, denali, etc) and when it came time to name the router.. yellowstone seemed right.

AlphaGeek
2009-04-24 22:13:28 ET

Since I was in the mindframe of locking down my networks when I named them: "NoWayJose" for the 802.11bgn net, and "NoWayJose-a" for the 802.11a net.

Ace
2009-04-24 22:13:29 ET

"United States Department of Justice"

ZombieSlayer
2009-04-24 22:17:12 ET

Woo

RG
2009-04-24 22:18:32 ET

i named mine: 3M-TA3

(read it in a mirror...)

IronRooster
2009-04-24 22:20:48 ET

Curiosity for Velocity

It was the first Draft N wifi that actually worked for me.
(I took the phrase from a video game)

2009-04-24 22:24:44 ET

I've seen some brilliant ones including "yourpants" and while wardriving "timsucks" immediately followed by "haveryfunny"

inthewoods
2009-04-24 22:25:17 ET

Mine is: nointernetsforyou

2009-04-24 22:27:41 ET

My SSID is SPACEDOCK and my various computers are named "NCC-xxxx" where xxxx is a random five (or four, depending on the age of the machine) digit number, and the Windows description is "USS xxxxx" where xxxxx is an awesome sounding starship name (Enterprise is excluded - none of my computers are THAT good). VMs are named "NX-xxxx" where xxxx is a random five digit number, denoting the experimental or temporary nature of the system. Windows description is the same for the "NX" systems.

Thumb drives are named after rivers and bodies of water in and around New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York, while hard drives are named after various ship sections (MAIN_BRIDGE, ENGINEERING). Removable drives (not thumb drives) are named CARGO_BAYx if it's semi-permanent or SHUTTLEBAYx if it's frequently removed where x is the number of the drive (numbered by first used).

Yeah I took it to a ridiculous level. And no, you can't find me by wardriving lol.

timm
2009-04-24 22:29:05 ET

SHODAN

Ryan
2009-04-24 22:31:41 ET

Cerebro

Susan
2009-04-24 22:33:53 ET

The Batcave

david
2009-04-24 22:35:07 ET

in NYC we had constant trouble with Time Warner dropping out and they weren't helpful. So we called our network: IHateTimeWarner

peter
2009-04-24 22:37:40 ET

nTenna

Tuochad
2009-04-24 22:41:40 ET

Clusterfuck

Kudos
2009-04-24 22:45:25 ET

mine is 'OMGWIFI'

Gnagy
2009-04-24 22:51:26 ET

Mine is called "Fuck Off!"

Andyman420
2009-04-24 22:51:35 ET

I named mine "yomama"

Tom
2009-04-24 22:54:02 ET

The Matrix

Not terribly creative...

Chapin
2009-04-24 23:07:20 ET

S.H.I.E.L.D. Mainframe.

emerysteele
2009-04-24 23:07:27 ET

Can't Touch This

Justin
2009-04-24 23:13:51 ET

the primary is spaceball1 and the satellite is spaceball2

Stu
2009-04-24 23:14:58 ET

LANofTheFree

Ryan
2009-04-24 23:18:21 ET

Zulu Warrior

AlexK
2009-04-24 23:19:39 ET

I names mine DONTSTEALMYWIRELESSBITCHES!

losladrones
2009-04-24 23:22:24 ET

Skynet

Brutal
2009-04-24 23:29:14 ET

Mine is called "Im hacking your computer Bahaha"

Chris
2009-04-24 23:32:17 ET

Mine is Monkey Bubbles

thecolorifix
2009-04-24 23:32:33 ET

Mine is "thecolorifix" but my friend uses "VirusOfDoom"

James
2009-04-24 23:32:42 ET

Mine is called "This Shit is Proper". Relates to an inside joke among friends so they usually recognize it without asking when they bring their laptops.

Dan
2009-04-24 23:33:27 ET

Someone near me has the best one I've seen: ASIO High Security Network

ASIO is like Australia's FBI.

Stan
2009-04-24 23:50:09 ET

I named mine ****SORRY, NO HABLA SKANK!**** inside joke :D

lemonpie14
2009-04-24 23:59:25 ET

I named it Alleluya after 3 hours of painfull serup and ISP bitching.

Cerebus
2009-04-25 00:08:14 ET

"Radiation Kills". Because I got sick of the "I'm allergic to radio signals" morons.

Rainman
2009-04-25 00:09:38 ET

Pants Optional

Kerchel
2009-04-25 00:16:27 ET

Mine is Heywood Jablowme

cdarwin
2009-04-25 00:52:15 ET

dev_null

Steve
2009-04-25 00:52:46 ET

Named mine "No Scene Fags" in an effort to discourage scene fags from using the internet. Nobody needs more emo bitches with their selfshots hogging up MySpace, Facebook, and Photobucket.

2009-04-25 01:01:44 ET

One is "D is for Dangerous" (Arctic Monkeys song) and the other is Rendezvous (a french word that i like)

mikey
2009-04-25 01:04:49 ET

"Nick Gers"

Kathryn
2009-04-25 01:09:36 ET

Name mine "Splendiferous Adventures"

turtle
2009-04-25 01:16:10 ET

Leavemealone

Bomn
2009-04-25 01:16:34 ET

Well ...

My is Stoned_Angelina (my very first Virus )

Pinion
2009-04-25 01:26:13 ET

Ours is named "Virus Land".

2009-04-25 01:28:45 ET

I named my Wi-Fi network Banksy. It's named after my cat, who got his name from the British graffiti artist.

neophish
2009-04-25 01:40:15 ET

"trojan32.downloader" was mine when i had neighbors. now it's just "uplink"

2009-04-25 01:50:01 ET

we call our PHA-Q. the neighbors must love us. o_O

Buckley
2009-04-25 01:53:36 ET

Virus Server. No one touches it.

Mark
2009-04-25 02:21:50 ET

We own Italian Greyhounds, so I called mine Turbo Dogz.

PT
2009-04-25 02:23:00 ET

goaway

EJ
2009-04-25 02:41:43 ET

I find that "iShitTheBed" keeps people from trying to screw with it.

The new neighbors give me dirty looks too!

Chris
2009-04-25 03:24:32 ET

Mine is "Baxter" (Anchorman)

Someone in my friend's building is "BBQ Sauce"

2009-04-25 03:25:48 ET

I once 1) changed the name of a neighbors wifi to "you just got hacked" 2) turned on MAC Address filtering to where only my notebook could access 3) set it to where it would only dole out 1 IP address 4) erased the log file

2009-04-25 03:55:39 ET

LANTASTIC

Chris Heady
2009-04-25 04:11:36 ET

"VirusPool". Hopefully will keep out the rabble.

Bawlsout
2009-04-25 04:47:17 ET

Megatron

andrew
2009-04-25 05:30:32 ET

"intertubes"
or

"throw some ds on that bitch"

or
"prep your bhole"

2009-04-25 05:41:35 ET

Linux_ONLY

Alphaman
2009-04-25 05:55:08 ET

My one router has 3 nets.

TheShire: my 5GHz N WPA2 secured and private net.

MinasTirith: my G secured and private net for older slower devices. (my house is on the top of a hill)

Osgiliath: the outlying, WEP net, isolated from the other two and with only Internet access -- I allow guests to use it with a simple passphrase. Guests can't access MinasTirith nor TheShire.

Tip o' the hat to JRRT

Toffa
2009-04-25 06:03:51 ET

"Not even think about it" is my name :)

2009-04-25 06:12:02 ET

"FuckOffMyNetwork" as in get the

Curtis
2009-04-25 06:52:43 ET

I spent some time recently trying to setup my new linksys... settled on "Inconvenient Boner"

mm
2009-04-25 06:55:53 ET

"Free Wireless [my apartment address]"

Sir Mud
2009-04-25 07:31:24 ET

Mine's been beowulf64 since b was the new hotness.

TGJ
2009-04-25 08:21:41 ET

My Wifi SSID is 1011000 - my house number in binary

cjb
2009-04-25 08:40:30 ET

My various routers have all been called 'Kryptos'

2009-04-25 10:21:10 ET

My accesspoint is called "Funkturm" (german for "radio tower") and the wifi networks name is "infected botnet".

TheDude
2009-04-25 10:31:18 ET

I'm in the Middle East so I named mine "I_Love_Pork"

krazee_eyez
2009-04-25 10:39:07 ET

i named mine: too many barking dogs

lkbhghyhy
2009-04-25 12:33:00 ET

Hellvirus.exe

2009-04-25 13:38:33 ET

I guess its the OCD in me that made me name it:
CJD-ROUTER-01 and CJD-ROUTER-02
CJD being my initials. My computers names are:

CJD-DESKTOP-01
CJD-DESKTOP-02
CJD-MACBOOK-01
CJD-MACMINI-01

Desktops being custom builds.

2009-04-25 13:56:12 ET

Mine is The Gibson.
Shockingly no attempts at cracking the security though :(

Tom
2009-04-25 14:18:56 ET

We called ours, "DontEvenTryIt"

Jdoubleo
2009-04-25 15:03:20 ET

Raging Hemroids

Guest
2009-04-25 15:59:54 ET

"I'm no longer stealing WiFi"

2009-04-25 16:19:57 ET

I call mine "see you next tuesday"

Devin Gates
2009-04-25 16:56:21 ET

I called mine Dita, after the firewall persocom in the anime Chobits. Also named my main drive Chii, and at this point, am now thinking of renaming my Wii to Sumomo :)

2009-04-25 17:35:22 ET

I called mine "I can haz Cheezeburger?"

Richard Head
2009-04-25 17:40:43 ET

Wang Fu

Benoit Fredette
2009-04-25 18:10:04 ET

DeaThNeT - I figured it should keep people from hacking into it ;-)

Dave
2009-04-25 18:26:44 ET

Used to be "Fisting", wife complained and we got a new router so I named the new one "Farts". Not very clever I know but I laugh every time I see it, and I'm sure the neighbors appreciate it too.

djh
2009-04-25 18:56:42 ET

homeywifiness

Matt C
2009-04-25 19:15:10 ET

My college apartment complex shared wireless on a network called BorkenNet. The running joke was that it was always borken. My personal network is called Marathon, after the old FPS (some of my computers draw their names from there as well), and my current wireless is named Borderlands after a region in a book my roommates and I all like.

jo
2009-04-25 19:36:33 ET

i named mine your mom is a whore and she gives awesome head

hyperfish
2009-04-25 23:39:22 ET

Cyberdyne Systems

kfischer
2009-04-26 01:01:36 ET

Al-qaeda Des moines chapter.

Bill
2009-04-26 02:08:46 ET

For quite a while my Wireless connection SSID was Bukkake.

JJ
2009-04-26 03:20:59 ET

I started with, "PacketSniffer", but decided most of my my neighbors may not know what that means so I switched to, "iHackU". I've considered "KeyLogger" too. Obviously I'm one of those that want to make people think twice about trying to connect.

Hentaicle
2009-04-26 04:33:04 ET

mine is offensive swears. "cuntrag"

Centax
2009-04-26 06:03:42 ET

Donkey Punch

Torben Busk
2009-04-26 06:26:58 ET

Because the computers (and NAS-boxes) in our house are called; Dino, BammBamm, Pebbles, Fred, Betty and Wilma, it had to be; Bedrock.

Canalien
2009-04-26 07:45:47 ET

"You Got Served"

stanman
2009-04-26 13:09:17 ET

I have always named mine "Elvira". Just because...

Me
2009-04-26 14:52:15 ET

Mine is called "Pop Copy" (ya know...like the Dave Chappelle skit). I had a neighbor who called theirs "Don't Steal Internet". It was an unsecured network. *facepalm*

Alanio
2009-04-26 15:27:13 ET

All of my flatmates and I are from EU countries, and our router is in our hallway, and so it's at a central point in our flat, and it's in a place where we all meet together. So naturally, in the spirit of the EU, we named the room as well as the router/WiFi connection 'Brussels'.

God I need to get out more...

flipper
2009-04-26 17:55:23 ET

i work as a security consultant so I named it "unavailable"

2009-04-26 18:57:54 ET

My WiFi is named "Ansible". Extra points if you get the reference.

mike
2009-04-26 20:46:31 ET

my wifi network is called 'strangerdanger' ...I will hope people get where it's coming from.

Aaronbp
2009-04-27 02:43:31 ET

my neighbor's is called thisnetworkhasaids

disuse
2009-04-27 03:10:34 ET

I named mine "NaughtyGrotto"... based on Playboy's Grotto and the 'naughty' sh*t that went on at our bachelor pad.

It's stuck w/ me even after getting married :P.

Lummy
2009-04-27 11:50:44 ET

I have 2, and they are "omglolwtf" and "omglolwtfbbq".

Wilcox
2009-04-27 14:25:08 ET

Mine is named "Bury Reynolds"

NetCaptive
2009-04-27 14:32:00 ET

"keep driving"

Eugene
2009-04-27 14:53:02 ET

CTU LA

Nay
2009-04-27 16:03:04 ET

WhoFlungPooh

Jarrett
2009-04-27 18:32:53 ET

unregisteredSexOffender

M.Frog
2009-04-28 00:51:39 ET

Left this in discussion too: Named mine "COMCASTSUCKS". It was totally hilarious the day they sent a service tech to troubleshoot our broadband connection. My wife was home...I wasn't.

Funny #2: someone else in the neighborhood picked up on it, naming his connection "COMCASTDOESSUCK"....

fun stuff!

ssquach
2009-04-28 02:38:55 ET

downd

bakardi
2009-04-28 03:45:02 ET

"OXYEHHO". Russians will love it

matt
2009-04-28 04:19:00 ET

A guy down from me named his "Jeron has a small penis"
jeron is his roommate in college

Vito
2009-04-28 14:54:15 ET

"YourMom" so in windows it says you are now connected to YourMom

2009-04-29 09:43:23 ET

Mine is "PUKESPRAY"

chris
2009-04-29 22:56:10 ET

softcore

i did see an awesome one where there were apartments above a restaurant i was eating at and someone named their's "ask the server". so i kept asking the server every time she walked up what the password was and she kept saying "we don't have wifi". it finally hit me. tits!

Radiotube
2009-04-30 13:38:44 ET

I've had one of the following over the years:
Batcave
FCC Snoopnet
OICU812
MassiveDynamics

Nnarb
2009-05-16 19:05:33 ET

VIRUSserver



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