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The Best Router and Home Network Names

Sunday January 6, 2008
At the Oh Punk! blog, folks have been discussing the names (SSIDs) of home network routers. Most will agree that default is a really boring name. Pookie is a little bit better, but not much.

So what is your all time favorite router name? Add it to the Comments section below, and see how it compares to other suggestions from our readers.
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Comments
January 8, 2008 at 2:56 am
(1) compnetworking says:

I’ll start it off:

retuor

(’router’ spelled backwards)

January 8, 2008 at 1:22 pm
(2) DinoFelis says:

one of the names used in the past …RobertPlant.

January 8, 2008 at 1:55 pm
(3) Trix says:

I went with cartoon…as in…cartoon network

January 8, 2008 at 1:57 pm
(4) Guinness66 says:

Guinness

Well, it IS the ‘Gateway’ to happiness!

January 8, 2008 at 3:06 pm
(5) SimCard says:

Roto – a paean to those pronounce the word router with an Aussie accent.

January 9, 2008 at 12:32 am
(6) Hylton says:

It is teh gate to all knowledge and heaven for some so why not ‘Pearlygates’

January 10, 2008 at 7:29 pm
(7) Jarrod says:

Sol – simple and central!

January 15, 2008 at 8:31 am
(8) Ohpunk says:

As I said on my post mine is: BlackBriar (darn Bourne films.. lol)
** Shaun **
My awesome blog: ohpunk.blogspot.com

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January 17, 2008 at 11:44 am
(9) larry says:

i have 3—skellig
epitome
fatboy

April 11, 2008 at 5:07 pm
(10) one of the greats says:

Access Denied

July 7, 2008 at 5:04 pm
(11) user says:

I’ve always been a fan of “press1now”

July 13, 2008 at 12:47 pm
(12) Brent Thompson says:

virusinstaller

October 3, 2008 at 10:33 pm
(13) idk says:

i put mine as “Not Available”..lol

October 9, 2008 at 12:10 am
(14) David says:

I went for Nimda – I dare you to connect!

November 6, 2008 at 11:43 pm
(15) Quake says:

“Virus”. How bout that!

November 7, 2008 at 9:23 pm
(16) zx says:

The Iron Lotus

November 16, 2008 at 8:50 am
(17) Othiambo says:

I went with Ecalibur as in the sword for king Arther

November 18, 2008 at 3:21 pm
(18) Genise says:

Gotcha

November 18, 2008 at 3:54 pm
(19) David says:

2 networks –
evil trifecta and “Get your virus here”

November 18, 2008 at 4:26 pm
(20) jennym says:

I went with Hal, you know, from 2001: A Space Odyssey. But after reading some of these posts I’m inclined to change it to ‘get your virus here’.

December 14, 2008 at 10:32 pm
(21) Brian says:

Here are several that I have and have seen.
I have five: alpha/bravo/charlie/delta/echo

Some good ones I have found:
Nothingtoseeheremovealongnow
teh_interwebz
Get_your_own
youfoundme

February 20, 2009 at 7:56 pm
(22) Awesome says:

SkyNet

March 1, 2009 at 3:31 am
(23) Raymond says:

Trojan Horse

April 8, 2009 at 8:33 am
(24) dedd says:

the password is..

this would be a funny one

May 20, 2009 at 10:56 am
(25) Nick says:

rofl at some of these names… “SkyNet” and “virusinstaller”…

How about “seXBox”?

July 20, 2009 at 10:59 am
(26) Kate says:

Aorta

August 20, 2009 at 12:49 am
(27) tye says:

You are all BORING.

“Abraham Linksys”

September 29, 2009 at 3:42 am
(28) Phil says:

“(5) SimCard says:

Roto – a paean to those pronounce the word router with an Aussie accent.”

You’re a freakn nev mate, wtf is roto, should be “rowta” if anything.

Anyway, I like the name Escher, after M. C. Escher and his great artworks, especially Drawing Hands. Plays on the notion of paradoxy and looping. Take a look.

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