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The Best Router and Home Network Names

By , About.com GuideJanuary 6, 2008

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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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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

-

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.

December 4, 2009 at 11:54 pm
(29) ProfessorX says:

Two that I like to use…

“Luke WiFi Walker” and “Starfleet Communications”

~Ed

December 7, 2009 at 7:34 pm
(30) Brian says:

jarvis – let me know if you get that one.

January 23, 2010 at 1:59 am
(31) Jeff says:

“Series Of Tubes”

January 23, 2010 at 10:10 am
(32) Reno says:

“Remote Hard Drive Formatting Utility”

All are welcome to log in!

January 26, 2010 at 12:36 pm
(33) Guinness66 says:

‘Jarvis’ – The butler from the Avengers?

January 26, 2010 at 12:56 pm
(34) Carl Pridemore says:

Mine is named: Boomerang

January 26, 2010 at 5:59 pm
(35) jb says:

Not Found

January 26, 2010 at 6:40 pm
(36) bill says:

how about
DEATH STAR

February 21, 2010 at 11:38 am
(37) W32/Alphx.worm.a says:

I periodically visit http://www.whatexe.com and choose a virus name from their “Top Threats” list. My router SSID is currently named “W32.Mydoom.I@mm” because, even though it’s secured with WPA2 encryption, who’d want to take a chance and click on a link like that?

March 30, 2010 at 4:08 am
(38) yOe says:

Carlos “chuck” Norris
who wanto connect to this without permission =)

April 24, 2010 at 3:44 pm
(39) matthewbe says:

I put it as “Other…”

April 30, 2010 at 2:05 am
(40) sLeasl says:

virus.executable.funhouse

May 10, 2010 at 4:34 pm
(41) try this says:

FBI_surveillance_van_2712

Of course I change the number on a regular basis to keep my neighbors on edge

May 24, 2010 at 2:08 pm
(42) ali says:

how about “Access Denied”

June 5, 2010 at 6:38 pm
(43) bowman says:

BonusTurtleMeat.

I watch too much 30 Rock…

June 10, 2010 at 12:37 am
(44) schwabbl says:

“worst name ever”

June 21, 2010 at 12:21 pm
(45) clay says:

mine right now is
“captain front butt”

June 26, 2010 at 9:16 pm
(46) Ali says:

‘your neighbor’

July 9, 2010 at 5:25 pm
(47) Kriter says:

I believe in (future)shock therapy too. “NSA.TST.4160-1″
Hello? Big Brother? Can I have a VIRUS please?

July 14, 2010 at 10:15 am
(48) Crooked says:

Paper. Like paper router

August 20, 2010 at 11:43 pm
(49) Sirez says:

LoL at some of these…but there all nothing compared to my favorite…

GodLivesHere

I scanned that one going through the desert once and was like “wtf mate? DAD turn around god lives in that mobile home!” LoLoLoLoL

August 25, 2010 at 3:12 am
(50) Robbyp says:

My routers name was “Oh Baby Click Me” and “wanna click on me”

August 27, 2010 at 10:19 pm
(51) cbanbury says:

ID-10T-3rr

September 7, 2010 at 7:55 pm
(52) Francesco says:

“I Will Hack You”

September 30, 2010 at 8:26 am
(53) Mazzy says:

“Press Alt-F4 to Connect”

December 31, 2010 at 12:05 am
(54) Rob says:

went with

A-Series-Of-Tubes

January 1, 2011 at 6:20 pm
(55) Jonny D says:

The Pentagon

January 4, 2011 at 4:42 pm
(56) Don_Q says:

“Not_Yours”

January 4, 2011 at 7:37 pm
(57) Nathaniel Gildersleeve says:

I have a D-Link router. I named it linksys.

January 4, 2011 at 7:46 pm
(58) nateg says:

My dogs name Abby’s!

January 6, 2011 at 3:20 pm
(59) Gregory G says:

My SSID is “Rollbar”

January 6, 2011 at 5:46 pm
(60) Dave says:

Mine is Hidden.

January 13, 2011 at 8:25 pm
(61) A Guy says:

AirPort

Or

Hackulous

January 15, 2011 at 11:15 am
(62) Bro says:

Virus Detected!

January 16, 2011 at 5:25 am
(63) flowers says:

You must live by me because I’m seeing Fbi surveillance van #173

January 29, 2011 at 11:13 pm
(64) somebody says:

Everybodydie….because who wouldn’t want to click on that?

February 10, 2011 at 11:57 pm
(65) Jeembo says:

The best ones I have seen are:

“we can hear you having sex” and

“I’m under your bed”

February 19, 2011 at 7:14 pm
(66) nelly says:

Wu Tang Lan

February 21, 2011 at 12:48 pm
(67) sureshot22 says:

Moe’s Tavern

March 9, 2011 at 4:11 pm
(68) Ric says:

Jarvis is from the computer name on Ironman.
My suggestions would be:
“Beam_me_up_Scottie” and “Phallic_Caput”
You figure that last one out!

March 19, 2011 at 4:43 pm
(69) Beth says:

mine’s called nacho, as in nacho router :o )

March 28, 2011 at 10:26 pm
(70) Andrew says:

“Virus Detected by Network!”

I hacked your cell phone

May 3, 2011 at 10:55 pm
(71) Ellie says:

one of my neighbors’ is randylovesbighairytesticles. I just got my router today and I was really tempted to name it bighairytesticlesloverandy. but I won’t. :D

June 13, 2011 at 9:21 pm
(72) jknights says:

” NETWORK NOT FOUND”

June 26, 2011 at 1:10 am
(73) Rob says:

Stuxnet

June 27, 2011 at 2:03 pm
(74) r007 9aNda says:

Fly like a wifi

June 28, 2011 at 10:43 am
(75) Jack says:

“More Cowbell”

June 30, 2011 at 6:22 am
(76) Tom White says:

I like SkyNet and the FBI van idea (would have to be MI6 as I live in the UK)

I live at number 30 and my ISP is Sky so I came up with the idea of “SKYat30″.

June 30, 2011 at 6:23 am
(77) Tom says:

“your_mum”

July 11, 2011 at 1:34 am
(78) Jordan Ellis says:

And the winner is:

NachoWifi

August 9, 2011 at 5:55 pm
(79) altsysrq says:

My favorite was from a post I saw a while back.

“We_can_hear_you_having_sex”

August 20, 2011 at 7:30 pm
(80) Winter says:

mine is the wireless g spot since it’s a g-router

September 16, 2011 at 4:14 pm
(81) Jason says:

“HeyUGetOffMyLAN”

September 16, 2011 at 4:19 pm
(82) Jason says:

“router-IHardlyKnowHer”

September 17, 2011 at 5:34 pm
(83) James says:

Mine is “Archangel Network”
from Doctor Who

September 20, 2011 at 12:09 am
(84) kel says:

HionWifi

September 20, 2011 at 3:15 pm
(85) RouterKing says:

As i once was a US soldier i like to remind people that live around me so i keep the people guessing “5th Signal Command “

September 20, 2011 at 3:15 pm
(86) Bill says:

DEATH STAR

September 20, 2011 at 8:58 pm
(87) ichido says:

Mine is ” “.
That’s HIDDEN ;-)

September 21, 2011 at 9:48 am
(88) Ron says:

My neighbor is an annoying Cowboys fan living in new york….so I had to:
SSID: Cowboys SUCK

we dont talk much anymore:)

September 22, 2011 at 7:10 pm
(89) lambdadad says:

hard drive reformat in progress

September 27, 2011 at 9:59 pm
(90) Johnny P says:

I live in Louisiana. Background info: We do not have counties here, only parishes. (Same thing, different name).

I live in Terribonne Parish.

I live in a neighborhood with many alleged drug dealers and the like.

Terribonne Parish Sheriff Office (TPSO)

Knowing this info, my wireless network name is:
TPSO Surveillance Van 2

October 4, 2011 at 4:28 am
(91) ange says:

‘the LAN before time’…my absolute favourite. or ‘pretty fly for a wifi’

October 21, 2011 at 11:32 am
(92) kneverknow says:

Stiffler’sMom

October 22, 2011 at 2:35 am
(93) Anon says:

“56k-Modem”

No visitors so far…

October 29, 2011 at 3:23 pm
(94) tom says:

BillWiTheScienceFi

November 10, 2011 at 4:47 am
(95) Trey says:

Mine is, “Luke, I am your Fahjha”

November 12, 2011 at 10:10 am
(96) ideaa13 says:

FBI under surveillance

FBI Protected Access

December 20, 2011 at 7:05 pm
(97) guy2213 says:

Pretty Fly For A Wifi

December 29, 2011 at 10:51 pm
(98) Damien St.Charles says:

just changed mine to “CIA_safehouse_3″

January 17, 2012 at 12:43 pm
(99) Symptom says:

This is my favorite name…..

FBI Van 1

January 23, 2012 at 12:28 am
(100) Charlie says:

Vaiation on the theme:

“PrettyFly4AWiFI”?

January 23, 2012 at 12:52 pm
(101) Juan says:

I go with…

…EpsteinsMothersDoctor

February 1, 2012 at 2:27 pm
(102) Dhaundre says:

Mine is “THEN I TOOK AN ARROW IN THE KNEE”

February 16, 2012 at 9:34 pm
(103) PRATEEK CHAUDHARY says:

my wi-fi name is-c:\virus.exe

February 18, 2012 at 10:55 am
(104) sixsixsixseth says:

BabySealClub

February 23, 2012 at 5:32 am
(105) habib 960t says:

mine is Habib’s Wifi

March 10, 2012 at 12:19 am
(106) not ur average joe-ette says:

Best one ive seen:
BillWi-thescience-FI.

but im naming mine:
PrettyFly-for-a-WiFi

just cuz i nerd it up like that

May 11, 2012 at 9:15 pm
(107) xsparkaflame says:

2girls1router

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