Clever ways to send your neighbors a message, from Paul and Jennifer.
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Monday, February 1, 2010
Amusing Wi-Fi Network Names Of The Day
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Those are awesome! What a great idea.
ReplyDeleteI password protected my wifi and then promptly forgot the pw because I'd written it down. My husband then threw out the manual where I'd written it. My network is now so secure that even I can't access it. Because I'm a genius.
Bev - I have your pw and will send it to you. Nice photos, btw! You're so naughty.
ReplyDeletesomething to remember when I finally set up wi-fi. Haven't done that yet, but I'll come up with something like "cannotstealmywifi-loser"
ReplyDeleteI hope my neighbors don't think of this. Oh, I don't care what they name their network, I just don't want them to lock it.
ReplyDeleteClassic and necessary for densely-populated areas. My neighbors come up with such gems as Netgear, Linksys, and Wireless Network. Just open the box and use it, folks!
ReplyDeleteFrank nailed it. All my neighbors have unlocked routers. Comes in handy when mine is down. I don't think of it as stealing since they'd have to pay for it either way.
ReplyDeleteI love this. "we can hear you having sex" kills me. It also makes me glad we moved from the neighborhood where the houses were so close together that it when our neighbors walked up their stairs, it sounded like someone was walking up *our* stairs.
ReplyDelete"Netgear" here, Lefty! But I'm renaming our wi-fi as soon as I think of something clever :-)
My husband named ours "Deathstar." No, seriously. Nerd.
ReplyDeleteMy network is named 'TakeOffEh', because we moved from the great white north. The password is NOT, however, 'Hoser', as one would assume. There is at least one non-secure network in my vicinity, my daughter uses it on visits since she can't see our network for some reason. My sister had free WiFi for years in her apartment, it killed her to pay for it when they moved.
ReplyDeleteCary - They don't call it a hard drive for nothin'!
ReplyDeleteLindsey - My husband named his iPod Han Solo. Nerd Alert!
The Mrs and I lived in Greensboro, NC for about a year back in 1989-90. Our apt was under an older retired couple who were home all the time and LOUD. I worked at home and got to hear them stomping around and yelling at each other (not angrily -- just deaf, I guess). The kicker -- the old man sneezed at least 15-20 times EVERY day, sometimes more (one day I counted 39 sneezes), and every time was like a bomb went off, it was so loud. I knew he couldn't help it, but get some Sudafed for fuck's sake.
ReplyDeleteAnyhoo, we moved away and were driving back through there one warm spring day about two years later, not that far from the apt where we'd lived. We're sitting at the light with the windows open and my wife says, hey, I wonder if the (loud couple's name - don't remember it) are still around? At that moment.. I shit you not... we hear this ground-shaking SNEEZE and look around. Yup, it's them in their car behind us. We laughed our asses off.
Our router is "Mr. T," and I pity the fool who tries to hack it.
My husband thought it would be funny to name our network "Uranus." Even though I had issues with it at first, I can't help but laugh each time I connect to "Uranus"
ReplyDelete-Brianna
We must live in a boring 'hood. All the names here are ordinary and bland.
ReplyDeleteGreat post!
my two favorites in my neighborhood:
ReplyDeletefunkytown
i'm the fucking greatest
though turdburglar is pretty damn funny...
Sadly, we just have Darlene's Turd here in the new neighborhood. Haven't met Darlene or her Turd yet.
ReplyDeleteDarlene's turd is her jobless live-in boyfriend who does nothing but play XBox and smoke weed all day while she works.
ReplyDeleteSecondary title of this post: Passive-Aggressive Wifi names of the Day."
ReplyDeleteThese are amazing - how did I never think of this before. I am so going to change the name of our network to something - unfortunately, "ifthatratdogshitsinmyyardonemoretimewhileyouwatchanddonothingiwillkillitandyour" is a little too unwieldy
ReplyDeleteOurs is just our last name. But it's locked, so at least the thieves know who they CAN'T steal from.
ReplyDeleteMy friend found out his neighbor was "borrowing" access to his network. He let it go until he learned the guy had his own wi-fi, and was just using neighbors because he'd exceeded his own bandwidth cap.
ReplyDeleteSo my friend accessed his unsecured network, changed the password, and changed the name to "This is why we can't have nice things."
He also sent him an email stating he'd be happy to supply the neighbor with the password if he'd stop ganking a signal from everyone else.
I have McLovin on my WiFi at home (it's not mine, my neighbors lol)
ReplyDeleteI'm saddened and appalled that my nerd husband has not given us an awesome name, must speak to him about this! The neighbours on both sides of us are asshats so must work on something very passive-aggressive, hehe.
ReplyDeleteOurs is "pong." The husband named it. I still don't know the password or why Pong. I guess we're uninteresting. ;-)
ReplyDeletesomeone downstairs in my building named theirs 'do it for the halibut'. had to read it out loud before i laughed
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