What does your Wi-Fi name say about you?

[Wheezer]

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local...cy_wifi_network_names_are_real_hot_spots.html

The signs say 82nd and Broadway, but a quick look on the Web reveals it's the heart of a wireless Internet network dubbed "dontstalkus."

Keep walking north on Broadway and that network gives way to another named "Turndownyourmusic" which, at 110th St., becomes the "wehaveroaches" network.

Welcome to the wild wild world of Wi-Fi.

Just as in the Harry Potter books, this is an alternate universe not visible to the naked eye. But you don't need to be a wizard with a Marauder's Map to find your coordinates.

Any laptop computer with a Wi-Fi connection will reveal the crazy quilt of mad monikers that New York wireless Internet users have come up with to mark out their cyber territories.

And the names they have come up with are brimming with big city attitude.

"People want to express themselves, they want to be outrageous, clever, witty or disgusting without having to compromise their identity," said Alexandra Janelli, 28, the city's premiere - and perhaps only - collector of quirky Wi-Fi names.

"It's a new sublayer of New York. They get dirty and nasty and mildly inappropriate, but that's what makes them fun."

Internet users who go wireless usually have a modem in their home or office to give them access to the Web. But when they leave their immediate area, their laptops try to connect to the next nearest Wi-Fi network.

The names of the networks pop up on the user's computer. Sometimes they have generic handles - like 05B7754 - but others are more clever.

Some Wi-Fi users on the East Side display their political stripes by dubbing their networks "killhealthcare," "betterthanbush" and "Palinsux."

Up in the Bronx, Wi-Fi users with a religious - or anti-religious - bent have taken to giving their networks names like "jesussaves," "godisfake" and "endofdays."

In the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, the networks take a more carnal direction with monikers like "singleandluvinit," "needaman" and "nudist."

Many of the Wi-Fi monikers are X-rated, with names that refer to sexual positions and body parts that are too raunchy for this family newspaper.

"Imcompletelynaked" boasts one user in the vicinity of 33rd and Broadway, who hopefully at least has window shades.

And some of the names like "Imunder-yourbed," "normanbates" and "bedroomspy" are downright creepy.

Adolpho Hernandez, who lives near Columbia University, came up with a network name to spite a pot-smoking neighbor. He called his "stopsmokingweed."

"This is my way of telling him to quit it, 'cause it stinks up the building," said Hernandez, 22. "Wi-Fi's probably the best way to let someone in your building know what you honestly think, good or bad, because everyone's stealing each other's Internet."

Alex Haddad, who lives on Staten Island, came up with a Wi-Fi name to help his love-struck roommate.

"We had a neighbor who my roommate John had a crush on, so I changed our Wi-Fi name to 'JohnwantsSarah,'" said Haddad, 24. "She used our Internet."

Did the matchmaking ploy work?

"No way," said Haddad. "He never asked her out in person."

 

[bas1c]

Mine says "I'm too lazy to change it from the default name."

 

[PottedMeat]

'linksys' = free intarwebs here!

 

[JoPh]

that i like moosehead?

 

[amdhunter]

Mine says ILOVEATOTGAYSEX

 

[SandEagle]

mine is 'virus'

the 'JohnwantsSarah' was a clever idea

 

[Demon-Xanth]

http://www.holytaco.com/25-hilarious-wifi-network-names
http://funnywifinames.com/

 

[KeithTalent]

Mine is named after my pet rabbit: Frankenstein

KT

 

[bignateyk]

Mine used to be "mike_is_gay" (my roomate was mike).

 

[xanis]

http://www.holytaco.com/25-hilarious-wifi-network-names
http://funnywifinames.com/

Why did I click on those links? I almost burst out in laughter in the middle of a lecture.

 

[Aharami]

mine is HelloWorld

 

[HardcoreRobot]

ive got grendel and chranchala

 

[Gunbuster]

2wireXXX just like everyone else. Uverse is doing well in my neighborhood.

 

[2dt Drifter]

My home wifi is: Network Ninja


LOL "We can hear you having sex"

 

[her209]

HaveYouSeenMyWeiner

 

[ajtyeh]

"orgrimmar" and "azeroth"

 

[effowe]

UFIA here

 

[minendo]

Hellhole. Been that way since my first wireless network.

 

[rivan]

chranchala

Haha, <thumbsup>

 

[kranky]

What my Wi-Fi name would say about me is "This guy must like random character strings."

 

[middlehead]

Mine says nothing, it doesn't broadcast.

 

[Agentbolt]

I forget where I'd heard it before but I've called mine Abraham Linksys.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2009/12/30/wifi-for-passive-aggressives/

 

[Red Squirrel]

I only turn mine on if I need it, like if someone comes over and has wireless. I normally set it up on my external network and call it "dontstealmyinternet" and it's wide open. If someone gets on they're not on my main network so who cares. The worse they can do is slow down my internet by downloading lot of porn, which in that case I'd check the router and boot them off.

I forget where I'd heard it before but I've called mine Abraham Linksys.

Haha, nice.

 

[her209]

Mine says nothing, it doesn't broadcast.

Sure it does.