# Uh.. Weird WiFi connection names...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 25, 2009, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879 "2009-01-25T03:33:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2009, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/1 "2009-01-25T03:33:04Z")
So I just got an Ipod Touch. I think the thing is fun. I can surf the net with only a little annoyance by the format in places that I would not be able to otherwise. The coffee shop, the other coffee shop, the cafeteria of the place I work, etc…
They are named as such:
“(Name of coffee shop #1)”
“(Name of coffee shop #2)”
“43564675354 (or somesuch)”
Fine.
The downtown area of the town I live in has a mostly younger crowd. Its a college town.
I pulled it out to look up a phone number/e-mail I’d saved in it and saw it was trying to connect to a wireless signal. Hrm… Ok…
It was called “Huge\_Penis”… a weak signal that was locked.
I laughed and hit cancel.
Just now… In my bedroom I turned it on and found it trying to connect to another locked wifi signal (I live next to some college housing, I assume its them and not the over 50 without a computer crowd that lives in my building).
This one was titled **MURDER**. In caps.
I’m going to double check my doors are locked from now on.
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### Author:  [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2009, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/2 "2009-01-25T03:44:38Z")
Someone in my apartment complex has a WiFi connection called “It’s Not Lupus!”
(My apartment complex is a block away from the massive University of Michigan medical complex; pretty much everyone else in the area is a med student or a doctor.)
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### Author:  [@urban1a](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1a)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2009, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/3 "2009-01-25T03:54:54Z")
One in my apartment building: gaychubbuttsechs
Bob
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2009, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/4 "2009-01-25T03:56:07Z")
I can see:
burg
IMPACT
SkyNet
StaceyM
and…
belkin54g.
burg is my own base station. But the one that concerns me is belkin54g. That’s the name of a base station that has not been reconfigured from its factory defaults. It has no password. It is easy to google the manual for the base station, connect to its network and then its configuration web page, and take complete control of it, even locking it away from the owner’s control.
I know, because I connected in this way to a friend’s base station after I explained how vulnerable it was, sitting open like that. Now it has a password and a name.
So, public service announcement time. Even if you’re fine with letting neighbours use your connection, change your wireless base station configurations from their defaults, and especially protect the configuration web pages, before some drive-by hijacker does it for you and locks you out!
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### Author:  [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2009, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/5 "2009-01-25T04:24:20Z")
There’s one I see everytime I’m on the bus which is “Thorstein Veblen” which gives me a chuckle every morning.
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### Author:  [@Casserole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casserole)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2009, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/6 "2009-01-25T15:53:11Z")
Ooh! I have a nifty one too… (at least, I think it’s witty… perhaps not.)
Living in a house with 5 other music majors, our WiFi SSID is “Always B Natural :)”
Our password consists of solfege. _palm on forehead smily_
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2009, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/7 "2009-01-25T16:14:50Z")
Ours is “BoogaNet” and it’s secured.
Our now-former neighbor named his “Get off my fucking network”. Classy guy.
Robin
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### Author:  [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2009, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/8 "2009-01-25T16:24:26Z")
> [@Sunspace](#):
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> I can see:
> …
> **SkyNet**
That’s pretty funny.
> [@MsRobyn](#):
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> Our now-former neighbor named his “Get off my fucking network”. Classy guy.
But was it secured/encyrpted? Because it’d be funny if a hostile network name was his sole means of security (“Shove off, eh, you hoser!”) One step short of setting up an open WiFi hotspot called “VIRUSES UNLTD.”, though.
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/9 "2009-01-25T16:57:46Z")
It was secured. The neighbor was trying to make a point.
Robin
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### Author:  [@Sonnenstrahl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonnenstrahl)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/10 "2009-01-25T17:07:59Z")
The guys across the street (at least I assume it’s them) named their network Balls2Face. It’s a student area.
I can’t talk, my house’s network is Hogwarts. I didn’t choose it. But it still makes me happy whenever I log in. 😉
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### Author:  [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2009, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/11 "2009-01-25T17:14:00Z")
Ours is SICKBOY.
🆒
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### Author:  [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/12 "2009-01-25T17:30:49Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#):
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> There’s one I see everytime I’m on the bus which is “Thorstein Veblen” which gives me a chuckle every morning.
That’s kinda cool, considering we have a Doper named **TVeblen**. Is it the same guy? :eek:
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### Author:  [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/13 "2009-01-25T17:40:01Z")
My favorite is my BIL’s. He named his network “Series of Tubes”.
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### Author:  [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2009, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/14 "2009-01-25T17:41:43Z")
> [@freekalette](#):
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> That’s kinda cool, considering we have a Doper named **TVeblen**. Is it the same guy? :eek:
I’m going to hazard the crazy guess that both the user name and the wi-fi network were named after the same historical figure.
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### Author:  [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/15 "2009-01-25T17:44:45Z")
> [@hajario](#):
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> I’m going to hazard the crazy guess that both the user name and the wi-fi network were named after the same historical figure.
Aw, hell. :smack: I didn’t now the guy was a historical figure; shows how much I know! :smack:
Ignorance fought, thanks. _goes back to lurking_
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### Author:  [@Alienhand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alienhand)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2009, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/16 "2009-01-25T18:00:13Z")
In my apartment complex there is one named “NCC-1701-E” … it’s unsecured. I often wonder if this is a statement.
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### Author:  [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2009, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/17 "2009-01-25T18:16:16Z")
> [@Sunspace](#):
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> I can see:
> SkyNet
Do you live next door to me? That is my network’s name!
(and my laptop carries the name Mobilenet)
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### Author:  [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/18 "2009-01-25T18:19:27Z")
Ours is called AwesomeWifi. I claim no responsibility for the naming of the network, though… that was The Boy’s doing. (this is, for the record, the same man who wanted to name our second cat Sega Genesis or Captain Lou Albano).
The other networks I can see from here are:
Veltmann
Bell 493
Apple Network e273f7 (how original… bet this is the Mac Geek next door)
Roula
Hera (we live in a Greek neighbourhood… can you tell? 🙂 )
Nothing particularly interesting, unfortunately. Sniff.
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### Author:  [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/19 "2009-01-25T18:26:52Z")
I find this subject fascinating: an SSID is a way to communicate totally anonymously with the few hundred feet around you, and it’s an unusual opportunity to make some kind of a statement. [Here’s a thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=480895) we did a few months ago discussing funny SSID names.
Nutshell: [ul][_]I ended up naming mine “teh intarwebs” [_]A lot of people came in and sheepishly admitted that they’d named their networks “skynet” [\*]It is vital to refer to [this XKCD cartoon](http://www.xkcd.com/466/)[/ul]
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### Author:  [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/20 "2009-01-25T18:35:48Z")
Currently, ours is **Fuck European Hornets**.
Also visible:
**Pussy Stamp
Subway to Venus
Beethoven
We Drink Beer**
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