You know what it’s like when you’re strolling around looking for networks. They’re all the same. They’re all called “belkin54” or “NETGEAR” or “BTHomeHub”. So generic. So default.
What we really need is networks with imaginative names. Names like “Vicious Evil Network Of Mayhem”, as screenshotted here by Flickr user Ingridesign.
I’m now inspired to change my network name from the stupendously dull “16spring” to “The Network That Performs Somersaults”.
Is your network called something interesting? Something better than “Vicious Evil Network of Mayhem”? Do share.
Oh, and another thing: apparently someone announced some new laptops yesterday. You might want to look that up if you’re interested.
(Picture used with permission. Thanks to Ingrid!)
172 responses to “Think Different With Network Names”
radiationapparat
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My network is called cheshirecat, my iMac is named Alice, my hackintosh server Queen of Hearts, my EeePC laptop madhatter, and my iPhone is called The Looking Glass. I keep a theme.
Holonet (5Ghz)
Scarlet (2,4Ghz)
My network is called “unwired”. Took from “Serial Experiments Lain” .)
Mine are currently known as “The Hollow” and “The Fade”. Some will recognise immediately what they refer to. Previously, I used my wireless network names to insult my neighbours, whom I had something of a dislike for, since everyone can see everyone else’s network in my little corner of town. The day they moved away I changed it to a rather bluer version of “Good bye and good riddance”. Other names from the dim and distant past have been “Don’t come near me; I’ve got the palsy” and “Moya”. My neighbours are currently using “Simply the best” and “Rabbits”. The mind boggles.
Mine’s called “42Net”. I’ll let you to your digging to find out why. (Hints: Apple.)
In the past, it has been seen with such names as “Don’t even think about it”, “My bandwidth is bigger than yours” and stuff like that.
My network is called: “connect for viruses”
I always hated those “Linksys”, “Router”, “D-Link” network names. So i changed mine to “Picapau Amarelo” (it’s a childrens book, by Brazilian author, which i really liked as a kid, but now i like the Portuguese-ish name) and other one to “Gazapa Blanca Royale” (meaning White royal bunny, in courtesy of my girlfriend :))
My friend, who lives in an apartment building, named his network “gausais” which in english means “sluggish”, so one is even temped to connect to it :)
A network in an old neighbourhood of mine was:
“The House Of Trouser”
I think students lived there.
My favourite find so far was called “Get off my LAN”!
I have 2 networks setup one being an Wireless N that is locked down and the other is my open network. I call my open G network $4.99 a Minute Wifi and my N network $5.99 a Minute Wifi. I figure that people who don’t know much about wifi won’t leach off of it, but if I have people in my house I can tell them to use it. I doubt it really works but its still funy
For the last 7 years or so I have always named my wireless connection the “Degobah System”.
My network is named “The Arcade”, my computer is named “Donkey Kong” and one of my external drives is named “Robotron”. I love video games and use to manage an arcade.
mine is called ohmsweetohm
I was listening to Queen while I set me network up so it is aptly named Mercury.
netmonkey
Ours is simply called “Get off the grass”
Mine is “waking up the neighbours”
“The Orchard”, geddit? Orchard…Apples…Orchard…
When I first got my Airport Exreme i named it “GrannySmithRocks”, sounded kinda Appley. I call my wireless mouse, Jerry and the keyboards called Liberace.
Hubba Bubba was the name of mine
Anyone bringing a laptop to my house gets to join the “Penguin Party.”
I don’t know what it means, but I thought it sounded fun and inviting. (Still have a password on it, though!)
My current name for my network is “Area 51.” I really like the ring it has
Someone in my building is using, ‘drzoidburg’ whereas I have opted for the particularly geeky ‘TARDIS.’ I felt obligated, being a Whovian, that when using a Time Capsule the network name ought to be an homage to The Doctor.
My network is Neverland Ranch.
My friends’s is Bon Jovi’s Family Network
Mine is “The Flying Mule”.
My AirPort Extreme is named ‘Alpha Moonbase’. I have an AirPort Express linked to it named ‘Mos Eisley’. I see someone else’s network named ‘kamioftheshadetree2’ just now, hadn’t seen that before…
I have an external hd named ‘The Tardis’. w00t!
VIRUS_WARNING has always worked pretty well at keeping the leeches off..
WU-TANG-LAN – love the hiphop
I hide the SID and call my network: nowyouseeme
Im a transformers geek so mine is called ‘teletraan-I’. i am too sad…
I name mine “Virus Server” so that anyone that stumbles upon it will think twice before trying to connect.
I use to see a network called Asian Twinkie Porn in my previous neighborhood. Mine is currently called I’ve Got Lazer Eyes.
I call mine virus_pxw01 i convince myself it will keep windows users away from my network
My neighbors network name is “gonorrhea”. Cracks me up every time.
Mine is called “Proud Puco Land,” which, I’m rhymes with “Cloud Cuckoo Land.” This all made sense once.
My network is called Chimichangas, but I changed my friends network at home to be FunkyButtLove. :)
“Dead Man’s Drop” is my network. When I was a kid, we had a steep hill in my neighborhood, and another kid remarked that anyone who fell down it would be dead, so it became known as Dead Man’s Drop.
mine is “standing69”
Just to be cute I call mine “closed”, but the daughter of a friend called theirs “bitchhouse”
seriously mine is “standing69”
Mine is called “Stadtkarnickel”, german for “city rabbit”.
It’s also an homage to an old children LP called “Mimmelitt das Stadtkarnickel”.
you are going to ban me from posting comments because i answered your question. my wireless network is called “standing69”. if you cant publish the answer….don’t ask the question.
“Enlightenment”
please disregard last comment …IF…. last entry gets posted of course. ;)
Router 1 – iThink therefore iMac
Router 2 – iMac therefore iAm
Communications Unlimited..
is mine.
Mine says, “Free Porn Download Here”.
Mine is called,
“NOT this Network”
Mine’s named Richard.
I ALWAYS set up my and my friends servers to the same simple message:
F$#KOFF – Not Authorized to Steal
And I NEVER leave networks open. ALWAYS make it require a MAC address first
Soon after my network was given the name “Naked Lesbians,” a neighbor somewhere in my apt building chose the name “Hot sex.”
I set my parents’ home wifi network up which is located next to a marina. I called it: “IP on your boat”.
mine is called muthaf***ingfalcoandshi*.
“Rubicon”
As in, don’t cross it.
Seinfeld Extreme
mine’s is Skynet
I have two wireless networs: Guybrush & Threepwood
(From the Monkey Island games)
“Nowhere”
My neighbours’ one is called “Easy Gay Boys”
There’s a network in my building called “Get Off My Network” which I think is pretty neat.
Unfortunately, a lot of the providers in England lock down the router so you cannot change the network :(
I lived in a house with three other guys. Our network was named after our home, the “Kilbasa Lounge”. I’ll leave that as it is.
“La_Casa_Del_Vinello” which can be loosely translated from italian as “The house of the good cheap wine”.
Back in my (dark) days as a network manager, i named my servers with, well, names. Everyone’s favorite was Elvis. It made management a lot easier. When there was a problem it wasn’t with “HP1” or “Apps3″ or NetServer.” Anthropomorphizing, “We’re having a problem with Bob’s firewall NIC” or “Chuck’s RAID is reporting problems” was a real help pinpointing and resolving problems. Mildly entertaining too.
And my home network is named… belkin54g. The damn thing wouldn’t run any management from my mac.
My home network is called No Network Available. This inspired a friend to name his Input Error.
Josef Frtizl’s secret dungeon.
Mine is “Butt Chateau”…
our comic relating to this topic… :-)
http://www.geekculture.com/joy…
My home network is “no hackers here”, and my daughter’s is “here either”. Everything is locked with a WEP password, which is sufficient on this street.
A long time ago, before even Ethernet, I had a friend who named his AppleTalk printer “Screaming butt monkeys from hell”. Those who remember the dialogue boxes in Mac OS 6 & 7 can remember that the computer would lock during printing and the dialogue would read “Waiting for . . .”
So his computer could be seen displaying “Waiting for Screaming butt monkeys from hell” much of the time.
Too bad you need to search for a network’s name, now.
I named my router the Informational Hub, and my friend named his network Smoke Signals… My computer is named Lewanda, and my HTC Mogul is the Evil Companion ;) My external back up hard drive is named GlaDOS…
My main one is called “Atlantis” after one of my favourite TV shows and my Airport Express is called “Kitchen” because thats where it is :-)
Maelstro
our network is called BOO BEES
My network has been called “Those Damn Dogs”, password: antifreeze.
A little joke we played with our neighbors who have some bastard dogs.
My network is now “Get off my LAN”. Thanks for that, Matt Gibson!
Iam a Pink Floyd fan and mines called Darkside Of The Moon !
late to the party, but…
n0onelivesforever
good times…
SSID = “free porn” (with WSPK2 of course)
White Plastic.
What all proper Apple products were made of before they went all green and recycle-y.
I just changed the name of my network to “Secret Underground Lair.”
My network is “Dick Place”.
Just happens to be the name of my street : )
Our network is called, “robspartylounge.”
mine is called airport
My wireless network is Hotpants, but my neighbors have many expletives in them… Quite funny till your parents try to use your wireless.
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DogCow
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