Out of the box, my home wireless network was named “Bigpond1234″ or whatever the default was and I couldn’t be bothered changing it. A few weeks ago I wanted a fresh approach and renamed it “Skynet“, although upon reflection “Cyberdine” may have been more subtle.
I want to mess with the neighbors in our street. I could be evil or I could be cool. Possibilities include:
- FreeNetwork but leave a password on it, obviously
- Virus Detected
- Connect And you DIE
- Fed Police Monitor Van just for the paranoid people around us
- 15Mystreet I don’t live at #15 on My Street
- Error:Could Not Connect
- 17MystreetRJerks if my neighbours ever upset me
- UPDOG so if friends come around and they want to connect and they ask “What’s UPDOG?” I can say “Nothing much, what’s up with you?”
- Series of Tubes
- Silence of the LANs
For some reason this reminds me of the time we were on Rottnest with Suzanne’s sister and her family. Her sister made the mistake of putting her phone down unattended in full view one day, so I turned it on, went into her contacts list and changed the description for my phone number from “Brian” to “WA Police”. I picked the right moment later in the day and dialed her number from my phone covertly and watched as she picked up the phone. I had this whole thing in my head that I was going to do when she answered about how her car had been recovered from the bottom of the Fremantle docks or something but watching her and her husband freak out about getting a phonecall from the police without even answering it made me laugh too much and I couldn’t keep it going. “Answer it”. “No you answer it” “But it’s your phone” “But it’s the police” “I can’t talk to the police” “But the phone’s in your name, not mine!” Hehe.
That phone trick is so funny – need to remember that one.
I would label it Fed Police Monitor Van – I love makig people paranoid – probably why i enjoyed your phone joke.
Elissa
I did actually name a government computer Skynet for a network we setup (the network itself was simply known as the TEN.) We did however also get to setup a subsidiary network at a building located in the suburb of Fyshwick … which we promptly called Fyshnet.
Oh – and I reckon you should name yours after a post I read on somebody else’s blog about a misunderstanding their child had – call it “Octopus Prime”
I’m also tossing up “HomeLAN Security”