# Uh.. Weird WiFi connection names... **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/41 "2009-01-26T12:36:14Z")
I live in an incredibly boring neighborhood. Ours is named after the company my sister and her boyfriend work for. She has no imagination and uses her employer name for every user name that she needs. We also have, in our neighborhood: dlink Dynex Louis Belkin\_G\_Plus\_MIMI\_8cf2BA linksys Perez311 ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/42 "2009-01-26T16:08:02Z")
My workplace is in a two-tenant building. The other tenant doesn’t like that we’re trying to run a legitimate business and disapprove of his pot smoke drifting to our side. He named his Wifi network ‘[my workplace] sucks’. The joke is on him now - guess who got evicted for his illegal activities? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/43 "2009-01-26T18:27:47Z")
Mine has been “Boner Butt Poo Parade” for about a year now - I totally stole it from my (now) roommate. There are a whole lot of other ones we can see from our apartment, but I’m not at home to report back on them. I did set up the bf’s wireless router because he couldn’t figure out how, but I named it “Boner Butt Poo Parade Jr.”, so my devices wouldn’t get confused 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/44 "2009-01-26T18:54:58Z")
Mine is currently “Firefly,” and the one I used previously was also nerdy, but I can;t remember what it was. I might be getting a new router soon and just yesterday I was trying to thing of some new nerdy thing to call it. I may stick with the Firefly theme. “Fruity Oaty Bar,” perhaps? Or perhaps a shout put to the cute girls in the apartment above us. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/45 "2009-01-26T18:58:01Z")
We have a lot of really boring 2WIRE555 or whatever. But then also: Trainspotting Zombie Apocalypse ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/46 "2009-01-26T19:00:19Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > Mine has the simple monicker of Linksys. Straight out of the box with only a couple of changes to the config. > > Of course, if you’re connected to it you’re trespassing on private property and I will avail myself of my right to put a slug through your wireless device. 😛 I doubt it’s very likely that someone will use one on you, but it’s worth noting that you can buy, or even make, antennas that will connect from a range of miles away. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/47 "2009-01-26T19:37:44Z")
Ours is “L &As House of Whores”. It was funny when we lived in a college apartment, but now that I have a grown up house, I’m a little concerned about what the neighbors think. I really need to change that. There’s: OneCare\_337 Redboat RNwireless and paik Yeah, we don’t fit in. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/48 "2009-01-26T20:43:56Z")
I don’t have any funny names to share, but since I’ve been posting stories about my tech support job… I got a call from a young woman who’d been using her neighbor’s wireless network. Now it was suddenly asking for a password. She called us because she (not being particularly bright) assumed it was a problem with her computer and wanted us to fix it. (We get a lot of those :rolleyes: ) When I assured her that it wasn’t a problem with her computer and that her neighbor must have changed the security to require a password, she demanded to know how she could change it back so that it didn’t have one. Interesting conversation there. Another one of those “You’re tech support, you have to help me fix this!” people. Sorry, I can’t change your NEIGHBOR’S network. Get your own damned Internet connection. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecc23a/32.png) [@Uncle\_Dragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Dragon)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/49 "2009-01-26T21:17:36Z")
We have ours named “Uhura”. My daughters wanted to know why I wanted it named that, so I had to explain that she was the communications officer aboard the Enterprise. It took a full day for their eyeballs to roll back down. Um, by the way, Hi! I was once a charter member here under a different name, but am slowly working my way back. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/50 "2009-01-26T22:52:29Z")
> [@Uncle\_Dragon](#): > > Um, by the way, Hi! I was once a charter member here under a different name, but am slowly working my way back. Hi there! Please contact **SkipMagic** to get your accounts merged. We have a rule of one account per person, so we’ll combine the two names. You could revert to your old one or have your posts merged into this one if you prefer. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/51 "2009-01-26T23:28:14Z")
Mine is PEBKAC. I wonder if there’s anyone geeky enough in my neighborhood to know what it means. All of the ones I’ve seen near me were either the default or the family name. ---
**Author:** ![Pollux\_Oil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/858c86/32.png) [@Pollux\_Oil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pollux_Oil)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/52 "2009-01-27T00:47:06Z")
I named mine Waffles. What, I was hungry at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Commandx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Commandx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commandx)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/53 "2009-01-27T04:56:14Z")
heh our area has a vast variety of network names, heres most of them. Even recorded somebody’s probe… Lets see, heres a list, griggsk Heathcliff VASQ DONMEGA wwebnadtd sophie SHARII 08FX06052388 cheesehead and crazyhorse I also spotted 2 hidden networks and 3 networks with no ssid, also a probe with any ssid… ours is one of the hidden ones… the names to complicated to spell out trust me… seems random to me though… ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/54 "2009-01-27T08:10:20Z")
At the moment, I can see: Lindy (that’s mine) bright10 BluePickle default I can also occasionally see the ubiquitous unsecured linksys network. A friend of a friend named his Connecting… (or Searching…, I can’t remember off hand). ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/55 "2009-01-27T10:29:10Z")
I’m still quite concerned on the whole **MURDER** wifi network… It was very very faint before but suddenly now it can catch my Ipod every time I turn it on… Rather than being a one bar out of… what is it? 3? 4? I think someone moved it closer to a window or something just to mess with me every morning when I wake up and turn the ipod on… I think they may have named it so to keep people from even trying to put a password in. I already have the net but even if I didn’t I’d probably stick away from that one. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/56 "2009-01-27T12:45:51Z")
> [@clayton\_e](#): > > I’m still quite concerned on the whole **MURDER** wifi network.. Um. I’m concerned too. I hope you live closer to downtown. There are enough weirdos in my section of town. We don’t need murderers too. Kind makes me glad we have our own connection in my house. ---
**Author:** ![Shecky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shecky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shecky)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/57 "2009-01-27T13:30:26Z")
Ours is “Wheretogetporn” Others in the neighborhood include: Hairyass Ted Nakedpicsofyourgirlfriend Linksys The last one is unsecured. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/58 "2009-01-27T13:30:54Z")
In my apartment complex: 2WIRE192 2WIRE966 westminsterlsg (My apartment complex is named Westminster, not sure what lsg is. Leasing?) pohpoh (The weird baby name folks have for the police?) I’m assuming the 2WIRE\* names are default, but don’t know what base stations they’d be. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/59 "2009-01-27T15:11:20Z")
Ours is charybdis My computer is also currently detecting: Olaf Bell521 homesweethome Home ddwrt Antoine kikou Rachel print server 2F0A9E All are secured except the print server. I’d love to start randomly printing stuff off of whoever’s printer. Large files, full of pictures. But that would be mean, so I don’t 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879/60 "2009-01-27T15:35:10Z")
> [@freekalette](#): > > That’s kinda cool, considering we have a Doper named **TVeblen**. Is it the same guy? :eek: I had no idea Thorsten Veblen was a historical figure; I thought he was a character from one of those 1920’s books we had to read in university, like the Great Gatsby. And I always parsed **TVeblen** as ‘TV eblen’, where ‘eblen’ was some kind of mangled pseudo-Esperanto word. ‘Eble’ by itself means ‘maybe’ or ‘possibly’, so the name always came out as a question that an attentive Esperanto-speaking host might ask: “TV, perhaps?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-weird-wifi-connection-names/482879.md?page=2)