Not exactly on topic, but my sis-in-law thought her neighbors were using her wi-fi and she asked me to lock it down.  Logged onto her laptop, got into the router, changed the name, locked it up, and checked that I could still connect to it.

I could connect, but every couple of minutes it would lose the connection.  So I asked her where it was so I could check it.  It turns out HER router was unplugged, she'd been using her neighbor's wifi, and I'd just locked them out.  They must have been power cycling it to fix the connection.  So I set it back how I found it and locked hers down.

Oy.

Here's the best one in my building.

Mine is Spaceballs: The Access Point.

Tandy _1400_Baud_Dial_up

Mike Hawk

Nothing beats my mother-in-law asking for the password to get connected to Mike Hawk.

skinink: My wi-fi is hidden but named "Discworld".

I just checked my neighbors' wi-fis and someone named theirs, "12345" I swear I'm so tempted to spend a few minutes to see if I can guess what the password might be on that.

That sounds like the code an idiot would have on their luggage.
/changes wifi password

TheCameraInYourBathroom

Huh, just came up with that, off to rename network.

What I found at the airport once:

My Ex had ours set up as Skynet for the longest time.  The last time I stopped by his place and tossed the last of his stuff on his door step he still had it set up as Skynet which my phone instantly connected too.

/no I don't know why your router says "Single Gay Guy in Apt 2B"

Mine (router and slave--big house) are "Hitler died for your sins" and "Vomit Patrol".

Our neighbors have super loud dogs that, pending an appeal, will be taken away by the city soon. I'm thinking of naming each wifi signal after their dogs to be an asshole.

"Bring beer to #214 for password". Nobody has showed up though. :(

Wi Believe I Can Fi is the one the miss came up with.

Ours is a message to our neighbors, who have the "Dog Lovers" router.  Ours is named "Shut Your Dogs Up" since they bark all hours of the day and night.  Hasn't gotten the message across yet.  Ahh, passive aggressiveness.

Past names for my routers include "Anal Seepage", "Pedorama", "Pedopalooza", and "Google Blue Waffle".  That last one, I hope, hurt some neighbors, since they deserved it ;)

Dawnrazor: "Link's Sis"

If you want to get really nerdy about it, change it to Aryll.

Zulthar: Mine is 'The Drones Club'

\Not obscure I hope
\\Yeah yeah


"I endeavor to give satisfaction, Sir"

CSB time. Somehow my router reset itself, and in the 10 minutes it was open, a neighbor connected to the router. Checked the DHCP clients table, noticed there was a new computer named "Jenna" on my network. Changed my SSID to "Jenna is a whore" . . . . Left it that way for about 8 months.

I named one "Cracker Box Palace",  in a pretentious 99% white gated community.

NoFlagNoCountry is ours...and completely misunderstood by our mandatory set of "Y'all Watch This" 'necks on the block.

The Upside Downternet never gets old.

utsagrad123: I always crack up when I see a WiFi network named "linksys".

That's what I named my Belkin router...

Neighbor of mine's is 'Hide your kids hide your wifi'.

I am typically one of the FBI van variants, but after reading this thread and thinking about my neighborhood (Tons of old, white republicans with Romney signs all over).  I think I will change mine to something akin to "Obamas free WiFi service"

Mine is the now stunningly unoriginal FBI Surveillance Vehicle 0D9, and it's wide open! (But you can only connectif I have your MAC, so too bad).

I wish Routers would let me send out a message when connections fail. I just want it to say "Login attemp detected. Activity logged" or some nonsense like "Scanning for Pornography. Plese keep PC powered on. Thank you."

Mine is named Seatec Astronomy.

Brainstorming...

The LAN Before Time?

Thou_Shallt_Not_Covet_Thy_Neighbours_Wifi?

The Time Traveler's Wifi?

marcre3363: At the end of my street, there's a "BiatchAssnubian" and "BiatchAssnubianGuest".

I always wonder what their guests think

This biatchassnubian got some good-ass wifi.

Initially my "mifi" was "CIA Mind Control Van Number 6," have since changed to "UN Population Control Van #2"

My next name will deal with "Contrail monitoring"

Friend of mine has "Silence of the LANs"

I live in the Hillcrest Apartments. I named my network: "Hillcrest_free_wifi_4_whites_only"

Lincey: CSB time. Somehow my router reset itself, and in the 10 minutes it was open, a neighbor connected to the router. Checked the DHCP clients table, noticed there was a new computer named "Jenna" on my network. Changed my SSID to "Jenna is a whore" . . . . Left it that way for about 8 months.

Lol, I remember when my neighbor's router was down for a while and they requested access to mine until they got their fixed. After one day of use I randomly kept kicking them out and told them my internet was acting up as well. They fixed their router real fast after that.

I use the classic +++Carrier Lost+++.

There's a guy nearby with "Evilnet"  No idea who it is.

Bill Wi the science Fi
Public Access WiFi  (be sure to password this one)
Wi believe I can Fi
2Girls1Router
Use this one mom

There's one nearby called LCARS, and while I appreciated the reference it isn't very clever.  If there's someone nearby (or you have a neighbour who wants in on the joke) you name one of yours FBI mobile surveillance and the other does Al Qaeda spy network.  I've seen a ton of funny ones over the years and I know I'm forgetting a lot of really good ones.

"Witness_relocation_DEA_FedID-58571ACX"

"Born Again and Lonely"

We are PuppiesAndCandy.

Our old neighborhood had a neighbor with Dalek. I always wanted to walk up to him and be like, "Hi Dale. Dale K right? How's it going?"

"Urethral Fisting"

"Abraham Linksys"

Mine's just called "Shamu," and my mobile hotspot is "Pants." All the mobile users want in my pants.

FBI Honeypot

Mine is Nacho Connection.

Password_is_password

"Link's Sis"

Mine is "Hide your kids hide your wifi"

Mine is "Infected Samples."

My buddies is named jizzinmypants

My own: Osceola Swingers' Club

Someone else's: We Can Hear You Having Sex

Mine is CancerBeam

Bathia_Mapes: The only remotely interesting one within radius is 007JamesBond.

Ours is Wolf359, named after the Outer Limits (OS) episode, not the ST:NG episode.

You know, the star kinda existed before either of those episodes aired.

"network error"

Many lulz have been had.

jpo2269: Initially my "mifi" was "CIA Mind Control Van Number 6," have since changed to "UN Population Control Van #2"

My next name will deal with "Contrail monitoring"

Mine is "HAARP Hurricane Creator"

For what it's worth, mine is Abraham_Linksys

I renamed mine Zoidberg!

(V) (;,,;) (V)

Driving past a local college my phone detected "Dildo Baggins".  It was open, so I joined...

This conversation  just came up last night! I was at my girlfriend's place and we were hooking up the wi-fi, and her neighbour's connection was FART_SMASHER :)

Mine is 'Gallifrey'.  My neighbours are unimaginative.

My phone's Mobile Hotspot was "FBI Surveillance Van #2" for a while.  It was entertaining to sit in the bar and see people looking at their phones, then out the door, and getting nervous.

I eventually changed it.  Now it says "Justin Beiber Limousine Wi-fi"  If i leave it open, plenty of people connect to it, surprisingly, a lot of them aren't teenage girls, and if i do password protect it, it's amusing to see if people notice and point it out.

Next week's will be "It hurts when IP"   I'm also considering "FREE 10gb WIFI" with a password on it.

Dixie Normous

Seen in Ketchikan, Alaska in 2009:  TitanUranus

We named ours Kneel Before Zod    One of our neighbors named theres I will never kneel

Adama

There's one in my apartment complex named "Bill Wi the Science Fi"

The yellow is/was mine, the blue my lovely neighbors

Tons of those "2Wire" things around here... But also a "SmellyCat" and "AmandasBox". I've always wondered if that was just 1 device with 2 SSID....

shiatting Dick Nipples

/Warrensburg, MO
//Possibly at the Verizon or Subway store

Yoda Porn 
Makes everyone go WTF

I use, "DEA Operations" since lots of my neighbors are dealers.

Battle Hamster Network.

Weyland_Yutani_Corp is mine it was SatansHouseOfPain and CountyMorgue

Honestly_Though_I_Just_Wanna_Snuggle

pw:  Cum0nB@byJustTheTip

Soon I'll be getting a new computer and will be setting up my first wi-fi network at home, and I'm already agonizing over what to name it. The pop culture choices are nearly endless, but I figure things like Skynet and HAL_9000 have probably been done to death by now. I also figured anything Star Trek or Star Wars related would be old hat, but judging from this thread, maybe not.

Some of my ideas:

bushwood_cc

camp_north_star

arkham_guest

monkey_island

ten_forward

cellblock_1138

genco_pura

vandelay_industries

krusty_krab

disgraceland

kingdom_of_moronica (or maybe moronica_for_morons)

Zulthar: Mine is 'The Drones Club'

\Not obscure I hope
\\Yeah yeah

Bertie!

My father and I are huge P.G. Wodehouse fans. One year for his birthday I got him the Jeeves & Wooster box set. We just vegged in front of his new TV and we could not have been happier. There is nothing like seeing the Drones have a rugby scrum indoors.

To the original topic: my cell's wifi is "billionaire pr0n", which no longer seems as smart after reading this list. I was eating brunch at the foot of the Hollywood Hills (Pinches on the Strip, not the dysfunctional one in Culver City) and assuming that one of the wealthy people in the hillside mansions was peeping on us with our normal lives. There would be a guy in front of his telescope, furiously cranking and muttering, "he's eating eggs with salsa! Oh god yeah, yeah, YEAH, that's great... he wipes his mouth with... ungh... a paper napkin... yeah, gotta film this..."

/rule 34 corollary: something you never think about doing is someone else's fetish
//unable to choose a stylus at the computer store? Oh yeah...

You Are Probably Sinning Right Now

From a post following TFA; Alexander Graham Belkin

The Internet Box

WirelessExtensionCord

"Brett Favre is dead to me" radiates from one apartment complex.  The college area usually has a variety of saucy and hilarious network names.

"jumpin' Jesus on a pogo stick".

skinink: My wi-fi is hidden but named "Discworld".

I just checked my neighbors' wi-fis and someone named theirs, "12345" I swear I'm so tempted to spend a few minutes to see if I can guess what the password might be on that.

"Luggage"?

Pen Island

Wow, this has to be the biggest

thread evar

ssid: kiosk-network .  Why?   DHCP option 6: mydomain.com & option 252: http://mydomain.com/kiosk.js .  kiosk.js created via Microsoft's IEAK with the browser and OS completely locked down <|:-/

Currently mine is Floo Network.

/thought I'd share

PantyHamster

Pretend You Did Not See This

Mine is set to  AnalSexIsTheWayToGoGirls

We change ours every few months.

It's currently WOPR.

/ Would you like to play a game?
// Not even remotely obscure.

Mine is Harry Ballsanya.
I don't think man or woman would want to touch that wifi network.

Moon Tower

"OH GOD BEES" for mine. My college roommate was fond of "Big Black Donkey Dicks" (or BBDD when people complained).

I am rather fond of mine, been using it for a long time. Unavailable.

"Uncle Spanky's Liquor Barn." My phone's hotspot is "Uncle Spanky's Liquor Cabinet."

We're one of two white families on our block.

My network is named "Customs/INS Surveillance"

rain bow kinect shown

I think 'LookOnMyWifiYeMightyAndDespair' will fit in the character limit.

Fark Rye For Many Whores: Why the fark "Garage" and why do I only see it when the neighbor's kid is mowing the back? Every time I check, their little push mower doesn't have an iPad strapped to it...

garage door is open? Got three wifi routers here, one is in the garage but I leave that one alone it belongs to the ISP. I jack with it and for sure anything that goes wrong is my fault.

Dawnrazor: "Link's Sis"

This thread inspired me to change mine. it was WarrenGHarding. It is now Linkbro.

I am thinking of changing one of mine to "Weird AlQueda".

TubesNTrucks

cause republicans are dumb

MightyPez: I ended up naming mine Super Karate Monkey Death Car. The passkey is in the same vein, for you Newsradio fans.

MonkeyStrongBowels?

I've seen The Fisherman's Wifi, probably the most amusing.  Mine have been Snow Crash, Looking Glass, and Stranger in a Strange Land.

I ended up naming mine Super Karate Monkey Death Car. The passkey is in the same vein, for you Newsradio fans.

"Free Range Chicken" shows up in my list.

LandlordIsAConArtist

FBI surveillance van is fine for a home router, but much more fun for a mobile hotspot that moves around.

"Free Virus Inside" is in my neighborhood.

I'm currently leeching internet off "Don't hack me, bro!"

The one I was most impressed by was:

EVERYONE IN THE WHOLE BUILDING CAN HEAR YOU HAVING SEX

WhippingBoy: Fark, you disappoint.

I expected some really witty and cool network names. Instead I get a bunch of lame, high-school calibre crap.

Odd, your post indicates that you both knew you were on Fark, *and* expected wit and coolness. Does not compute.

Once there was an Optimus Prime in my apartment complex, but now my Protoculture is the only interesting one out there.

Mine is "nubian We Got Internet."

I have a neighbor who has "WE CAN SMELL YOUR WEED"

It's locked and I have no idea who is doing the smoking or the smelling.

My brother is an Ohio State fan and has several UofM fan friends, they arewelcome to use his Wifi, it's Fu*kMiSUCKan.

No, really, we can.  Please stop, you're scaring the dog.

I just changed mine to Fluttershy's Cottage


until i can come up with something more clever, it will have to do.

Maybe "I have the cheapest bandwidth option" ?

WE CAN HEAR YOU BEATING OFF

Hmm.  Just checked and it looks like one of my neighbors is running an unsecured WIFI HP print server...

/ponders submitting a 2000-page print job...

keylogger.exe

Pffft, amateurs... I prefer to encode my cute messages in the MAC address.  It works even when your device does not have a SSID.

We have a bunch of uncreative people, and one named Hobbiton.  Our's is Pollywanna.

Mine is "Totally not a police trap".

My wi-fi is hidden but named "Discworld".

I just checked my neighbors' wi-fis and someone named theirs, "12345" I swear I'm so tempted to spend a few minutes to see if I can guess what the password might be on that.

Mine is 'The Drones Club'

\Not obscure I hope
\\Yeah yeah

DHS_PACKETRAK

Mine was INSMobile08 until recently. Now I have WoRMdOwNlOaD and PwSniffer