MrScorpio's Computing Tips: Sprucing up Your Wireless Network Name

[MrScorpio]

Does your wire network name suffer from a lack of imagination or fun? Is it something like, "Skyflash 0293-2" or "Mom's Router?" Why are you using a boring old name when you can be the anonymous talk of the neighborhood?

Well, head on right into your network prefs and change that puppy to something that make all the neighbors take notice… Or at least cringe in abject fear and paranoia.

Here are some suggestions that would surely make anyone pay some serious attention. It would also be preferable that you password protect your router and specify the WI-FI addresses that should have exclusive access to your router.

Enjoy:

- "F.B.I. Surveillance Vehicle"

- "Bob's Secret Nuclear Bunker"

- "only for porn"

- "Leave it to Router"

- "Does this Router make my Wi-Fi look big?"


How about you?


Give us some ideas.

[warrior1]

1. flyufools

my neighborhood has interesting names also like:

busymoose

winterfell

newkidsontheblock

middleearth

[undeterred]

2. Obama Eastside Campaign Office

No, Please don't name it that.

[Scuba]

3. Mine is ...

"Daily Password Revealed When Chores Complete".

[kentauros]

4. I can't remember mine at the moment,

so here are some ideas for you:

250,000 Electron-Volt Tesla Coils

Scalar Energy Weapons Research

Coulomb Charge Pulse-Converter

Hypersonic Ramjet Engine Research

and a link to a site that should give you plenty of odd/fringe titles and word-salads:
http://www.rexresearch.com/

[In_The_Wind]

5. word-salads

[Gorp]

6. "NORAD"

[TrogL]

7. Mine's a bunch of gibberish

and I'm not broadcasting it.

Good luck keying it in. I generally get it right one time in three. The password is worse.

[TheManInTheMac]

8. Those are a lot cooler than "belkin54g." I'm so lame.

[Duer 157099]

9. I might have to start thinking about this

as a way to be passive aggressive with neighbors.

"Your Security Lights Shines In My Windows"

"Your Dog Barks Too Much"

[freshwest]

10. Hehehe. Mine would be:

You two are sooo loud. Ooooh, baby, don't stop now!

Most of the wireless names that came up at my place were obscene, is why I'd use that. Well, not really.

[GoneOffShore]

11. Interesting router names in my 'hood

Francophile22 - Mine
Treb
Hoochiemama
spongebob
Moser
seer
Paddy's Pub (and there's no pub within 200 yards)
Cheldin_BrumerNetwork
Tonebomb
Terrace

There was a "ComcastBites" for awhile but that seems to have gone

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

12. My neighbor had VZSUX.

So I named ours ComcastSux2.

Checked today and theirs is now VZSUX100%.

Are we in a contest? Do I need to upgrade mine now?

[sarge43]

13. "I Saw What You Just Did." n/t