# Need clever name for wireless network
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-clever-name-for-wireless-network/461243
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 25, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-clever-name-for-wireless-network/461243 "2008-08-25T21:02:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-clever-name-for-wireless-network/461243/1 "2008-08-25T21:02:07Z")
In honor of the alt-text in today’s XKCD, I need a name for my wireless network. I always get a kick out of what the anonymous people of my neighborhood name their networks. What are some clever names? I don’t know the character limit, but I believe it’s around 15 characters.
At my previous apartment, we could see a secured network called “FUCK YOU PAY ME,” which I thought was kind of funny.
Some of my personal ideas:
“mind control ray” (if 16 characters can fit)
“google dot com”
“disconnected” (imagine: “you are now connected to disconnected”)
“something” (this was my old wireless network: “you are now connected to something”)
What else?
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### Author:  [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-clever-name-for-wireless-network/461243/2 "2008-08-25T21:06:33Z")
Mine is Limozeen, bf’s is Lazor.
/Anyone?
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### Author:  [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-clever-name-for-wireless-network/461243/3 "2008-08-25T21:11:52Z")
My neighbor’s is pretty clever. They have the last name of Bacon (well, it’s spelled differently, but we needn’t get too personal) and their network is “Bacon Bits”.
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### Author:  [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-clever-name-for-wireless-network/461243/4 "2008-08-25T21:23:10Z")
I use homelan. 🆒
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### Author:  [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-clever-name-for-wireless-network/461243/5 "2008-08-25T21:24:02Z")
This reminds me (again!) that I _really_ need to secure my home wireless network. I tried to do it when the cable was hooked up shortly after I moved in, but couldn’t get my laptop to be able to hook up. Although at least I know what I want to call mine.
How about “broadcast power”?
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### Author:  [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-clever-name-for-wireless-network/461243/6 "2008-08-25T21:24:25Z")
Mine is “Hotness”. It’s a shitty wireless-B network. You could use “the Matrix” or something dorky.
You are now connected to -
- The Internet
- The Suicide Hotline
- Mind Control
- Tubes
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-clever-name-for-wireless-network/461243/7 "2008-08-25T21:27:32Z")
USDoJ
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### Author:  [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-clever-name-for-wireless-network/461243/8 "2008-08-25T21:43:34Z")
Waste Of Bandwidth?
MSN (My Stinkin’ Network)?
Riding The Waves?
Randy Air?
Seltzer Spray?
Teh Intarwebs?
No Carrier?
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-clever-name-for-wireless-network/461243/9 "2008-08-25T21:49:50Z")
('80s movie references)
Falken’s maze? WOPR? Tron? MasterControlProgram?
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-clever-name-for-wireless-network/461243/10 "2008-08-25T22:01:49Z")
I named the various elements of my network after characters from _The Aedena Cycle_. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2008, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-clever-name-for-wireless-network/461243/11 "2008-08-25T22:04:16Z")
And how do I display alt text on an iPhone?
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-clever-name-for-wireless-network/461243/12 "2008-08-25T22:08:42Z")
To mess with people, you could give it a name that is an IP address different from the one it actually is using. 😃
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### Author:  [@Drakkar\_Sauna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drakkar_Sauna)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-clever-name-for-wireless-network/461243/13 "2008-08-25T22:08:48Z")
I’m fond of using things like “CP Server” or just plan “KiddiePix” and stuff like that. Tends to creep people out and make them stay away. 😉
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-clever-name-for-wireless-network/461243/14 "2008-08-25T22:10:59Z")
Call it: Boris Johnson’s Bulbous Head
You are now connected to Boris Johnson’s Bulbous Head
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-clever-name-for-wireless-network/461243/15 "2008-08-25T22:12:25Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Lendervedder]
USDoJ
[/QUOTE]
I thought about something like that once, then decided that any part-time hackers in the neighborhood would probably try _extra_ hard to break into **CPDVice1138**.
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-clever-name-for-wireless-network/461243/16 "2008-08-25T22:57:00Z")
[QUOTE=Drakkar Sauna]
I’m fond of using things like “CP Server” or just plan “KiddiePix” and stuff like that. Tends to creep people out and make them stay away. 😉
[/QUOTE]
“CP Server” would never in a million years resolve they way you wanted it to, absent the context.
(For me, anyway.)
For some reason, whenever I set up a wireless network, it’s always [noun]house.
Eg; my personal wireless network is “muddhouse.”
The one I set up for my friend Kat (who likes cats) is “cathouse.”
The one I set up for my mom is “dollhouse.” (Her nickname as kid was “Dolly.”)
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### Author:  [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2008, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-clever-name-for-wireless-network/461243/17 "2008-08-25T23:13:30Z")
You could call it “linksys” then put a password on it, just to raise, and then dash, the hopes of people in search of an open network.
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### Author:  [@atomicbadgerrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atomicbadgerrace)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-clever-name-for-wireless-network/461243/18 "2008-08-25T23:17:28Z")
**linksys** has worked fine for me for a number of years.
I’m boring, I know. 😉
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### Author:  [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-clever-name-for-wireless-network/461243/19 "2008-08-25T23:45:58Z")
Ours is DEFAULT A/P ROUTER
Nobody messes around with it, not that it would do them any good!
Call it MyPenis and you’ll never get a single surfer!
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### Author:  [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-clever-name-for-wireless-network/461243/20 "2008-08-25T23:49:36Z")
on our street (or in range of my laptop) is \*\*Howdy Neighbor! \*\*
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