What’s your network name?
I use legendary characters from my favourite opera: Main network is Isolde, guest is Brangane. Both strong women!
What’s your network name?
I use legendary characters from my favourite opera: Main network is Isolde, guest is Brangane. Both strong women!
Ours is a portmanteau of mine and the Mrs’ name.
Our guest network (LaRoMa) is an amalgamation of our kiss’s James kids’ names!
Who kisses James? He must be one lucky person!
Shame there’s no strike through formatting!
There is I believe , I know
Use < s > and < / s > (no spaces) to strikethrough
My network is LV-426.
As for individual machines, small netbook is NEWT. Original (and since retired) media PC was RIPLEY. Newer media PC is HICKS. You can see where I’m going, right?
Mines just left as default
I have a list of 13 available networks in my area, so I always pick something starting with A so it’s near the top.
How often do you find people suggest that you nuke your network?
R2-D2_optout_nomap
Sometimes it’s the only way to be sure.
Blüdhaven for my Wifi
Gotham for my server
Mine wifi name is the poo emoji
2 things it hasn’t worked on - one visitor’s old phone, and my friend’s PS4. But yea, emojis as SSID ftw.
Just a word of warning your ssid can be used to find your location , that’s why on Android apps needing access to WiFi or Bluetooth ask for location permissions.
That being said mine is the ISP default, nothing fancy
I have two!
My older 2.4ghz which runs a lot of my smart devices (& is a REALLY old AirPort Extreme) is called The Fellowship.
My 5ghz network is called Give A Cat A Home because we seem to regularly have random cats from the neighbourhood move in for a few days/weeks/months/years and this way they know they’re welcome
Used to work for a place where we named all the Novell servers with female names and all the networks (small local wired ethernets) with male names. Then, whenever a server crashed…
“Anna’s gone down on Dave.”
What can I say? It was 1993, we were young, and #MeToo wasn’t even imagined.
Ooh love this thread. My Wifi is the Boring default name.
But the naming strategy I have for devices connected to my network is:
Herbs for any HDDs or other storage (currently have Rosemary, Thyme, Sage, Basil and I think Garlic but that doesn’t fit the brief)
Spices for other networked things that I can give a name to (Mustard, Turmeric, Nutmeg…)
And my favourite part, my PC is called “PESTLE&MORTAR”
There’s a little bit of joy I get when I get to name a new thing.
My WiFi name is Sanctuary (from the awesome TV show) and all my devices are named after Star Trek Ships
This is awesome, I didn’t know you could do this… thanks for the tip
Reminds me of Joe Lycett giving all his smart devices female names, so he can say things like “Alexa, turn on Susan.”